Water for High Tech
Data centers and semiconductor fabrication are becoming major drivers of industrial water demand. As cloud services, AI, and IoT scale globally, water requirements for cooling and chip production are increasing in both volume and intensity.
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Key Research Questions
How are scaling data centers impacting water demand?
What is the status of government subsidies such as the U.S. CHIPS Act?
What is the water risk for semiconductor industries?
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Water for Data
5.6%
annual growth rate in global data center water use through 2030
1 million+
gallons of water used daily for cooling by some U.S. data centers
9,000 gallons
of water needed to manufacture a single semiconductor wafer
57%
projected share of water withdrawals by hyperscale data centers by 2030
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