Data center-related companies account for record 14.4 percent of new industrial leasing in the US

The UK faces water shortages because government forecasts do not take into account the expansion of data centres, water companies have said.

The government has “all but forgotten that most data centres require water to cool their systems”, according to a briefing to MPs from… pic.twitter.com/8ynkdBgTOU

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