The U.S. EPA used to have a page about data center water use, but it has been purged.
https://www.epa.gov/watersense/water-and-data-centers
It's also not on archive.org. I gotta find one of those samizdat archives of purged government pages.
Michelle Hughes
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2026-05-28 16:11:39 UTC
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