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Google’s data center raises the stakes in this state’s ‘water wars’

April 24, 2017/

Endless emails, map requests, web searches, and everything else we do online requires the use of energy-hungry, water-guzzling data centers.

Google wants to draw 1.5 million gallons per day from an aquifer to help cool the servers at its facility in Berkeley County. The data center already uses about 4 million gallons of surface water per day, the Post and Courier newspaper reported.

BY MARIA GALLUCCI

Full Story: http://mashable.com/2017/04/23/google-data-center-south-carolina-water-wars/?utm_cid=hp-n-2#eEi7W6VFSaqN

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