Companies with activities in Europe are required to disclose information on their water use and their water resources. The further protection of water and marine resources in the EU is one of the objectives of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive that came into force in January 2023. The new directive requires EU and non-EU companies to file annual sustainability reports alongside their financial statements.

Modern, new greenfield plants could help improve the industry scorecard, but manufacturing transformation can help both the greenfield plants and existing brownfield plants do better for energy, water, and process gas use.

Fabs, OSATs, and equipment makers are accelerating their efforts to consume less water while recycling more material waste in a trend toward better sustainability.

Claus Aasholm shares a couple of graphs from the Deloitte report included above.

A recent report has sparked concern among environmental advocates over the significant water consumption and pollution caused by cryptocurrency mining.

Semiconductor manufacturing is investing in a global technology and innovation center which will house a variety of functions under one roof, allowing ASM departments to collaborate more efficiently. This includes investing in leading-edge lab equipment and state-of-the-art infrastructure not just for research and development, but also for renewable energy, a water recycling facility, and other sustainability features.

In this article, the author looks at how water consumption is also increasing with the development and increasing popularity of AI before explaining why all tech leaders must take steps to manage this issue.

ASM is expanding operations in the state with a 20-acre Scottsdale campus that will allow the company to collaborate more closely with top customers like Intel.

Grundfos experts will discuss how today’s technology can help companies advance toward their net zero targets while also addressing the water challenges through reuse and optimization solutions.

Three years after breaking ground, Meta turned on its massive $1 billion DeKalb data center Wednesday, firing up banks of servers and network equipment to power everything from Facebook and Instagram posts to the uncharted virtual realm of the metaverse.

The company's name was revealed Monday when the El Paso City Council and the El Paso County Commissioners Court approved providing up to $110 million in incentives, almost all of those in the form of property (real estate and equipment) tax rebates over 25 years, to get the company to locate an $800 million data center in El Paso.

In a previous report, WHO 13 found that data centers across central Iowa use up to hundreds of thousands of gallons of water each day. While the data centers aren’t using a concerning amount of water right now, according to local officials and experts, some still wondered where the water is going in the first place.

A global rush for the next wave of generative artificial intelligence is increasing public scrutiny on Big Tech’s expanding water footprint.

A new analysis measures Bitcoin’s water footprint, and it’s growing.

The data centers have not come without some environmental concerns and worries of neighboring property owners, but they also have been part of a construction boon that's supported the development of public infrastructure in West Des Moines as well as development of advanced artificial intelligence systems.

Google’s Vice President, Technical Infrastructure: “We take a climate-conscious approach to cooling our data centers, as we continue to deliver on our commitments to champion responsible water use and operate on 24/7 carbon-free energy by 2030.”

Two newly elected members of the Virginia House of Delegates — even before they take office — are sounding the alarm about the costs of the rapidly expanding data center industry in Virginia.

With energy and water demand from data centers set to spike in the next two decades, environmentalists want to bring their growth in line with the state’s clean-energy and environmental goals. I'm hesitant to even include this article as this appears to be a small handful of loud people. But you should be aware of it as this type of thing can impact social license.

Responds to launch of the Virginia Data Center Reform Coalition.

As AI workloads strain traditional facilities, these 10 startups are working to reduce resource consumption through liquid cooling, digital boiler technology, and net zero data center initiatives.

“We've designed our systems to be responsive and intuitive to the community's requirements, ensuring efficiency in water management," says Li.

Data centers are currently grappling with a myriad of challenges, driven by the ever-increasing demand for data center capacity and the imperative to bolster energy efficiency while mitigating environmental impacts. These challenges encompass infrastructure, cooling, and power dynamics.

This collaboration has the potential to revolutionise water management within cooling towers and enable the data centre industry to reduce water and chemical use, diminish their carbon footprint and enhance regulatory compliance.

Outages at two banks that stopped 2.5 million payment transactions were sparked by a technical issue with the datacenter's cooling system.