Post and Courier

An unquenchable thirst? Why Google can’t endlessly recycle water for its cooling centers

Every Google search, shared document, map destination, calendar alert, Gmail message and streamed YouTube video is powered by sprawling data centers across the globe, including one in Berkeley County.

More Oregon water for Google’s data centers, more concern over secrecy

Google’s data centers gulped down nearly 550 million gallons of water in The Dalles in 2025. That’s nearly 40% of all the ...
Virginia Business

Google’s Botetourt data center campus may use 8M gallons of water daily

Initially, Google will require no more than 2 million gallons of water per day at the data center campus the tech company is planning for Botetourt County, according to a utility services funding ...
Wane

Google to fund water tower for data center use, public comment accepted

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Google plans to fully fund and construct a water tower to add to the Fort Wayne data center weeks after it becomes fully operational. The developers of Google’s $2 billion ...
The Gazette

Google data center would be among Cedar Rapids’ largest water and energy users

In Cedar Rapids, where leaders have approved tax breaks for a proposed Google data center, the top 10 largest water users together now use about 60 percent of the city’s average daily treated water.

Investors press Amazon, Microsoft and Google on water, power use in US data centers

(Corrects paragraph 10 to show that Amazon provides data on water usage per unit of power not total water usage) By Simon ...
WDBJ

Water authority agrees to deals with Botetourt County and Google

BOTETOURT COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - Wednesday night, the Western Virginia Water Authority entered into two agreements that will set the future of water use for the Google data center coming to Botetourt ...