Watershed carrying capacity modeled
Basin renewable water / yr—
All data centers in this basin—
Combined footprint—
This facility alone—
Leaves the basin (this site, evaporated)—
Capacity ≈ watershed area × regional runoff (modeled renewable supply). The basin total sums every mapped + modeled data center in this HUC-8. "Leaves" = cooling water evaporated and not returned here; the water embedded in electricity is consumed at distant power plants. Ignores inter-basin transfers and groundwater recharge.
Watershed capacity unavailable for this location.
Modeled annual water footprint*
—
Water to generate its electricity
This figure is on-site generation capacity, not data-center load. The headline MW here is a
reactor's output or a gas plant's nameplate — the campus's IT load hasn't been disclosed, so no cooling
water is modeled for it. The total below covers only the water consumed generating that power, and is a
floor, not a full footprint.
—
U.S. homes' yearly water
Where the water goes
— consumed (evaporated)— returned
Water isn't destroyed — but water that evaporates here rains down elsewhere, a real loss to this basin. For scale: agriculture is ~70% of U.S. freshwater use and all data centers ~0.3–0.4% nationally — but the draw is locally concentrated.
Local water supply & drought
Supplier—
Raw source—
Source type—
Checking drought status…
Facility size
Power capacity—
Modeled IT load ≈62% of facility—
Est. building area derived—
Cooling efficiency (WUE)—
Grid water intensity—
Listed in—
*Footprint figures are modeled estimates (power × climate-adjusted cooling WUE + grid-mix electricity water intensity), not metered. For announced sites the quoted MW is total facility power, so cooling is modeled on ~62% of it as IT load (PUE ≈ 1.6) while electricity water is modeled on the full draw — the two intentionally use different denominators. Operational MW comes from colocation listings, which already quote critical IT load, so no PUE step is applied there. Building area is derived from IT load, not reported. Sites whose MW is on-site generation capacity are flagged in the drawer and get no modeled cooling water. Watershed & drought pulled live from USGS & the U.S. Drought Monitor. Facility locations are real coordinates from PeeringDB & OpenStreetMap.
Where America's Data Centers Drink — a water story