{"id":942113,"date":"2026-07-17T23:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T23:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/942113\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T23:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T23:36:18","slug":"banning-data-centers-wont-solve-arizonas-water-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/942113\/","title":{"rendered":"Banning data centers won\u2019t solve Arizona’s water issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

OPINION \u2014 Oshkosh, Wisconsin, is considering a\u00a0one-year moratorium\u00a0on data centers due to water consumption and land use. This proposal is part of a\u00a0wider debate\u00a0as communities cope with the increasing resource demands of the data-center boom.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What if data centers used no water at all?\u00a0 A hyperscale facility in Phoenix is estimated to save\u00a0138 million gallons annually, using an\u00a0advanced thermal cooling system<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Instead of pushing for restrictions, lawmakers should foster innovations that reduce water use. Water scarcity should shape how we build data centers, not if they should exist.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OPINION \u2014 Oshkosh, Wisconsin, is considering a\u00a0one-year moratorium\u00a0on data centers due to water consumption and land use. This…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":942114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[379414,5229,5643,1587,379417,50051,293434,8296,379420,379412,24582,379419,379416,379418,1589,379413,379415,23911,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,379411,22260],"class_list":["post-942113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-advanced-thermal-cooling-system","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-chronic-water-shortages","tag-cooling","tag-data-center-boom","tag-data-centers","tag-encourage-water-efficiency","tag-increasing-resource-demands","tag-land-use","tag-mandatory-water-use-reporting","tag-millions-of-gallons-daily","tag-permitting-requirements","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-hyperscale-facility","tag-reduce-water-use","tag-tax-incentives","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-water-consumption","tag-water-management"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}