07
Jul
In communities across the United States, the rapid expansion of data centers—those massive, warehouse-like facilities that store and process the world's digital information—has brought with it a mix of economic opportunity and environmental concern. For some residents living near these sprawling complexes, the benefits of high-tech investment are increasingly overshadowed by fears about local resources, particularly water.The modern digital economy runs on data, and data centers are the backbone that keeps the internet, cloud computing, streaming, and countless other services running 24 hours a day. But keeping these enormous facilities operational, especially cooling their vast arrays of servers, requires enormous…