Data centres' water use has investors on high alert
Some sustainable-minded investors are trying to understand more about water risk before it becomes a liability
Washington
DATA centres, used by governments and large corporations to house their computer systems, have one big environmental problem: They get hot.
To keep them from overheating, large data centres can pump hundreds of millions of gallons of water a year through the facilities, according to company reports. That high demand for water has some investors concerned, especially in places where natural water resources are becoming ever more precious, like tech-heavy California.
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