another one from NYT (from July, 2025) https://archive.ph/0c7qw
original link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/technology/meta-data-center-water.html
“After Meta broke ground on a $750 million data center on the edge of Newton County, Ga., the water taps in Beverly and Jeff Morris’s home went dry.
The couple’s house, which uses well water, is 1,000 feet from Meta’s new data center. Months after construction began in 2018, the Morrises’ dishwasher, ice maker, washing machine and toilet all stopped working, said Beverly Morris, now 71. Within a year, the water pressure had slowed to a trickle. Soon, nothing came out of the bathroom and kitchen taps.
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A data center like Meta’s, which was completed last year, typically guzzles around 500,000 gallons of water a day. New data centers built to train more powerful A.I. are set to be even thirstier, requiring millions of gallons of water a day, according to water permit applications reviewed by The New York Times.
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Some projects are so large that they require the land to first be “dewatered,” which is when groundwater is pumped out of the surrounding area in preparation for construction.”
We’ve been having the same issue all over Quebec. People who rely on wells have to dig ever deeper only to find out there is no underground water left anywhere. Big Tech is currently building data centers in Quebec which explains why the water is missing. It is interesting that nobody informed us about the “dewatering” process.
Counties across Quebec have been importing water with cistern trucks.