List of media reports

Here, I maintain an incomplete list of media reports that are relevant to data centers’ water footprints or have mentioned a set of other issues such as global droughts and huge water consumption by electricity plants. Back to homepage of “Our cloud is thirsty”

Data centers’ water footprints

  1. The Coming Clash Between Water and Energy

  2. Google Greens Up Data Center With Recycled Water For Cooling

  3. New Utah NSA center requires 1.7M gallons of water daily to operate

  4. Ways to Reduce Water Consumption in Data Center

  5. Water, Water, Everywhere and Not A Drop to Drink…

  6. Facebook Reveals Its Data Center Secrets With Real-Time Dashboards

  7. 7 Green Data Center Metrics You Should Know

  8. Ensuring Data Center Water Supply During A Drought

  9. How To Reduce Water Consumption in Datacenter Cooling Systems

  10. Data Center Water Usage: An Emerging Challenge

  11. Data Center Water Use Moves to the Forefront

  12. When You Feed Data To Your Data Centers, They Get Thirsty Too

  13. Water Usage Effectivess: A Green Grid Data Center Sustainability Metric

  14. Data Centers Not Just Power Hungry, They're Thirsty, Too

  15. Data Centers are Huge Water Users

  16. Water Usage Effectiveness As An Important Data Center Metric

  17. Quenching the Thirst of Power Hungry Data Centers

  18. 4 Hidden Data Center Costs (And How to Avoid Them)

  19. Water cooling vs. air cooling: The rise of water use in data centres

  20. The Water Footprint of ICT

  21. Utah Data Center

  22. NSA data center will use 1.7M gallons of water per day to read your email

  23. Amid Data Controversy, NSA Builds Its Biggest Data Farm

  24. Major Data Center in India Reduces Water Consumption by 450,000 liters per day

Energy-water nexus

  1. The Energy - Water Nexus

  2. Water & Energy Efficiency

  3. Water Wars: Thirsty Power Plants Find Another Environmental Obstacle

  4. Freshwater Use by U.S. Power Plants: Electricity's Thirst for a Precious Resource

  5. How Much Water Does It Take to Make Electricity?

Extended droughts around the world

  1. http:droughtmonitor.unl.edu/

  2. 2012-13 North American drought

  3. More Heat, Drought and Floods in 2013

  4. Worst U.S. Drought in 50 Years to Raise Food Prices in 2013

  5. The driest season: Global drought causes major worries

  6. Increasing drought under global warming in observations and models

  7. Climate change's heat intensifies drought in the USA

  8. Park seeks to end mini-drought in Malaysia

  9. Drought and heat take toll on China's crops

  10. Drought in China leaves nearly 6 million lacking water

  11. Drought lingers in southern China, impacts 44 million people