Ann Vaughan

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The MeatEater Podcast · Ep. 902: The Pros, Cons, and Complications of Data Centers · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

It is an added stressor, for sure.

Well, first I'll tell you something that's really depressing, which is about, it depends on the estimate, but 18 to 30% of municipal water system water is getting wasted completely because of leaks.

Leaky pipes, old infrastructure, water utilities are typically owned by municipalities.

They are underfunded and

They didn't have great technology.

Today it exists to kind of monitor and figure out where leaks are.

And so even as we use more water for industrial purposes for data centers, we're leaving so much of it, you know, like,

where we can't access it.

Like it's just falling out of our water system.

So that's tough.

The other problem is that a lot of digital infrastructure is going to water stressed places.

And so in individual places, it's a bigger incremental stress on the system.

It's a very big incremental stress.

Yeah, so, well, you know, the...

You've seen a lot of chip plants locate in the southwest, in the Phoenix area.

A lot of data centers are there too.

And when I have been traveling the country looking at the AI boom and where the next generation of

infrastructure is getting built.

It's getting built in the middle of the country, effectively.

And some of them are in water-stressed areas.

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