Protect Water Resources

Data centers use significant amounts of water resources. This is particularly troubling as tech companies increasingly plan to build data centers in water-scarce locations.1 Local governments must pass water ordinances that limit the impacts of data centers and restrict data center development when proposals do not work in the community’s best interest.

  1. Luke Barratt, “Revealed: Big Tech’s New Datacentres Will Take Water from the World’s Driest Areas,” Guardian, April 9, 2025, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/09/big-tech-datacentres-water. ↩︎