Who owns the water in summer? #Shorts

Can a data center compete with a town for water just when it is most scarce?

Amazon says it will support projects to replenish water, but that promise alone does not answer a community’s question: what will happen to the local supply during a dry summer?

Answering that requires local data: how much water the facility will use, at what time of year, from which source, and how much it will be able to reuse. What would happen if a drought hits also matters.

An entire company’s environmental balance and the impact of a specific building are different things. The conversation starts with local figures and commitments that can be verified.

Full episode: https://youtu.be/zClNuCIWtbQ

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