00:0025 percent. That is the share of the world's data centers sitting in areas that run short of water
00:05at least one month a year. Researchers mapped 9347 data centers and found 2315 of them in places
00:13where water demand exceeds supply. Another 523 facilities, just over 5 percent, face those gaps
00:20for at least nine months a year. About 41 percent compete directly with cities for water. For 28
00:26percent, the main local water use is agriculture. Larger facilities can use as much water each day
00:32as a town of 50,000 people. Under a three-degree Celsius warming scenario, the share of water
00:38stress sites could rise to 33 percent within as little as 10 years. The study says most data
00:44centers that would cross that threshold are in the United States. It was published in Environmental
00:49Science and Technology. Researchers caution that big technology companies do not share exact water
00:55numbers. And the main risk may fall on other water users in the same basins. Disclosure. This video
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