Governor Newsom vetoed bill on data center water reporting amid tech growth. Could this affect Cal Poly or San Luis Obispo?
Source: Mustang News
“I really felt like this was an opportunity to lead and tell the rest of the nation, ‘hey, data centers may use a lot of water, but this is a way of at least preparing yourselves for that water demand,’” Papan said. “My feeling is let Texas run out of water. We don’t have to be the same.”
A large data center can consume more water in a day than a city the size of San Luis Obispo, according to a report by the Environmental and Energy Study Institute. The California legislature passed a bill this year that would have required data centers in California to report their water usage on business reports.