Water a big question for proposed AI data center in eastern Kern desert

A large number of the nearly 90 comments to the Energy Commission opposing the data center insist that: “A facility of this ...
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Piedmont residents raise water, growth concerns over proposed massive data center project

An open house for a proposed large-scale data center development near Piedmont helped answer residents' questions on its ...
ACHR News

JCI Targets Data Center Boom with Scalable Cooling

BETTING ON DATA CENTERS: The York YK-HT, previewed at the 2026 AHR Expo, is a solution for eliminating water usage when cooling data centers. It will be available this summer. February 3, 2026 LAS ...

What is Fairwater? The name of Microsoft's AI data center network

Microsoft has multiple identical Fairwater data centers under construction in southeastern Wisconsin and other locations.
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Abandoned PA mines and waste‑heat recycling could make the state’s massive new data centers far more sustainable

This is a guest post by Wangda Zuo, a professor of architectural engineering at Penn State. A version of this article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. The ...

New saltwater cooling system could make data centers more efficient and produce fresh water

How a new saltwater liquid desiccant system cools data centers and creates water ...

Data center cooling drives Johnson Controls’ Q2 sales up 8%

The company has new chillers for the sector and is getting into CDUs, CEO Joakim Weidemanis says. It’s also leveraging remote ...

Abandoned Pennsylvania mines and waste-heat recycling could make the state’s massive new data centers far more sustainable

The electricity needed to power new Pennsylvania data centers already in advanced stages of planning could power 11 million ...