{"id":21081,"date":"2025-12-04T14:37:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/04\/thirsty-work-how-the-rise-of-massive-datacentres-strains-australias-drinking-water-supply\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T14:37:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:37:19","slug":"thirsty-work-how-the-rise-of-massive-datacentres-strains-australias-drinking-water-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/04\/thirsty-work-how-the-rise-of-massive-datacentres-strains-australias-drinking-water-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirsty work: how the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia\u2019s drinking water supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The demand for use in cooling in Sydney alone is expected to exceed the volume of Canberra\u2019s total drinking water within the next decade<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/mar\/10\/sign-up-for-the-clear-air-australia-environment-newsletter-with-adam-morton?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton\u2019s free Clear Air newsletter here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As Australia rides the AI boom with dozens of new investments in datacentres in Sydney and Melbourne, experts are warning about the impact these massive projects will have on already strained water resources.<\/p>\n<p>Water demand to service datacentres in Sydney alone is forecast to be larger than the volume of Canberra\u2019s total drinking water within the next decade.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/dec\/04\/thirsty-work-how-the-rise-of-massive-datacentres-strains-australias-drinking-water-supply\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7e53329bb97edc9f0c9e83e399811cbde252f28f\/0_0_2953_2362\/master\/2953.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d52838e3e68cbc8417e16a02ae531bc2\" title=\"Thirsty work: how the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia\u2019s drinking water supply\" \/>The demand for use in cooling in Sydney alone is expected to exceed the volume of Canberra\u2019s total drinking water within the next decade<br \/>\nSign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton\u2019s free Clear Air newsletter here<br \/>\nAs Australia rides the AI boom with dozens of new investments in datacentres in Sydney and Melbourne, experts are warning about the impact these massive projects will have on already strained water resources.<br \/>\nWater demand to service datacentres in Sydney alone is forecast to be larger than the volume of Canberra\u2019s total drinking water within the next decade. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The demand for use in cooling in Sydney alone is expected to exceed the volume of Canberra\u2019s total drinking water within the next decade Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton\u2019s free Clear Air newsletter here As Australia rides the AI boom with dozens of new investments in datacentres in Sydney and Melbourne, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/04\/thirsty-work-how-the-rise-of-massive-datacentres-strains-australias-drinking-water-supply\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thirsty work: how the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia\u2019s drinking water supply<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21081"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}