Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has defended the company's growing AI infrastructure footprint by highlighting a new data centre that he says uses no more water each year than a neighbourhood restaurant.

Closed-loop cooling systems can help reduce water usage in data centers, which are essential for running technologies like ...

Record-low water use: Microsoft's Fairwater AI data center in Wisconsin claims to use about as much water annually as a neighborhood restaurant, thanks to a closed-loop cooling system. High-density AI ...

The developer of a planned data center in Fort Meade says the facility will use a closed-loop cooling system requiring only 50,000 gallons of water daily. An academic expert on industrial cooling ...

The Wyoming city has stopped taking some data-center wastewater after tracing a rare bacterium to a Meta-linked project.

Google has announced a new open-source rack-mounted, closed-loop liquid-to-air cooling system for use in existing air-cooled ...