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More than 400 Texas data centers, either operating or under construction, were projected to consume between 29 and 161 billion gallons of water per year by 2030. In that same year, Texas is expected to surpass Northern Virginia as the world’s largest data center market, The Texas Observer reports.

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When the AI Cloud Comes for Texas Water Legislators are (sort of) beginning to grapple with the grim costs that come with the state’s data center boom. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-legislature-data-center-boom-water/