Syracuse, N.Y. — If residents and businesses in six Central New York towns affected by a water pipe rupture keep using water as normal, some could run out of drinking water in less than a week and ...

Fears about AI data centers’ water use have exploded. Experts say the reality is far more complicated than people think. When I called him to talk more about AI and water, Masley emphasized that he’s ...

A water district drawing down water from its own reservoir should not be controversial. It should be expected. That is, quite literally, what reservoirs are built for: to store water in wet times and ...

The effort is drawing bipartisan support and is expected to come up again next year as officials grapple with the artificial intelligence boom’s side effects. States facing drought and dwindling ...

A statewide drought warning was issued on Friday as water supply conditions deteriorate across New Jersey. Residents and businesses are urged to limit water usage while the warning is in effect, the ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah State Legislature is fast-tracking a bill that would force data centers to report how much water they use. On Thursday, the Legislative Water Development Commission ...

The rise of AI is changing the world in more ways than one. As this booming new industry revolutionizes the way we live and work, scientists are racing to quantify its environmental impact as well.

If your data centers are guzzling more water than a major US city, you face a choice: come clean to the public and risk bad press — or hide the evidence to keep key figures in the green. For Amazon ...

In a rare move, all surface water rights holders in the Yakima River Basin will see their water curtailed due to lack of available water. The Washington Department of Ecology is ordering a halt to ...

The mighty Colorado River, which supplies water to cities and farms across Southern California, could again dwindle to dangerously low levels next year. That’s the finding of a new analysis published ...

As California's population grows, the pressure increases on its finite natural resources. And one of those, water, is the subject of some concern, with the increase in data generation in the state.

Small, everyday actions to minimize water use add up the more people do them. By Anna Diamond Michael Kimmelman’s recent story on Los Angeles’s water needs included a surprising fact: The city has ...