{"id":23427,"date":"2026-06-08T11:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T09:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/majority-of-uss-new-ai-datacenters-to-be-built-on-drought-hit-land\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T11:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T09:37:15","slug":"majority-of-uss-new-ai-datacenters-to-be-built-on-drought-hit-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/majority-of-uss-new-ai-datacenters-to-be-built-on-drought-hit-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority of US\u2019s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian analysis finds facilities to be built in some of the driest areas as outcry grows over water needed to power AI<\/p>\n<p>A record-shattering drought has racked much of the US. But the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/artificialintelligenceai\">artificial intelligence<\/a> industry is pushing ahead regardless, with the majority of planned datacenters set to be built in drought-ridden locations, a Guardian analysis has found.<\/p>\n<p>About two-thirds of upcoming datacenters, which typically require a large amount of water to operate, are set to be built in places that have been among the driest in the country over the past year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/08\/datacenter-ai-drought-water\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5fb187afe6f0821ed69c657f377aac6fabc69de2\/0_0_5000_4000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=282a6d672f5b41aba778d0e41d859ef0\" title=\"Majority of US\u2019s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land\" \/>Guardian analysis finds facilities to be built in some of the driest areas as outcry grows over water needed to power AI<br \/>\nA record-shattering drought has racked much of the US. But the artificial intelligence industry is pushing ahead regardless, with the majority of planned datacenters set to be built in drought-ridden locations, a Guardian analysis has found.<br \/>\nAbout two-thirds of upcoming datacenters, which typically require a large amount of water to operate, are set to be built in places that have been among the driest in the country over the past year. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian analysis finds facilities to be built in some of the driest areas as outcry grows over water needed to power AI A record-shattering drought has racked much of the US. But the artificial intelligence industry is pushing ahead regardless, with the majority of planned datacenters set to be built in drought-ridden locations, a Guardian &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/majority-of-uss-new-ai-datacenters-to-be-built-on-drought-hit-land\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Majority of US\u2019s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23428,"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\/23427"}],"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=23427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}