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Posted on 09/21/2026 4:33:00 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
Are data centers draining Arizona's water?
Today, Project 48 officially launches a public information campaign to take on that question and the bigger debate over Arizona's growth.
We're putting the facts where Arizonans can see them: on digital billboards across the Valley, online, and in your hands.
Arizona has added millions of people and built a $600 billion economy while using less water statewide than it did in 1957.
Data centers account for less than 1% of Arizona's total water use. Explore the research, see our sources, and send us the data center questions you want answered:
🔗 project48az.com/datacenters 📱 Call or text: (602) 905-8423 ✉️ info@project48az.com
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How does that make 1% of Arizona water not a lot?
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AZ has quite a bit of water. The wasted use like LV is their issue and they know it. The Gila Bend basin has 8.8 million acre feet. It is not trusted to be restorable at all.
Wise up AZ.
Doubt that idea will ever become reality, much of the borders of the Great Lakes are Canadian and they have rights to about 40%.
It's significant, but so is 4% of Arizona's population being illegal aliens. Just require AI to use it's amazing powers of observation to locate one illegal per 50 gallons per day of water use. Two problems solved!
If 2% is wasted on golf courses (and it is), how the heck is using only 1% on super vital data centers a lot?
See 18.
Post 7 is wrong.
!% of a state’s water is a lot no matter what.
We know that golf is a big deal in Arizona and golf courses visually attractive, but what are they getting for that 1%? How many AI plants are there, and what do they do for Arizona, is this a whole lot of production of something, is it a little bit, what is it?
I’m also curious why they choose the desert.
Please provide the factual source.
The source/link are in the original post.
Plus a phone number.
That remains totally vague, with nothing I asked answered.
Data centers account for less than 1% of Arizona’s total water use. Explore the research, see our sources, and send us the data center questions you want answered:
project48az.com/datacenters
Arizona’s water problem is the result of a failing Colorado river.
Does a golf course produce more..or...less... productivity than a data center? Don’t golf, so I don’t know.
Seems to me that use of reclaimed water is a win-win.
1) Data centers cause big use of water and the local region has to give it up, causing shortages and higher water bills to residents.
2) Sen. Ted Cruz said: Older data centers use a lot of water but many new ones being built have closed loop water systems that use the same water inside them.
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2 is true and some use air for cooling, not water.
massive underground pipeline with pumping stations should have been constructed and operational to transport water from the Great Lakes to the Colorado River.
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Great Lakes have their own water level problems, so that’s a no go.
No evaporation? Does it steam the water and if so how is the steam released? Initial amount to feed to loop?
No evaporation? Does it steam the water and if so how is the steam released? Initial amount to feed to loop?
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