Source: Politico
WATER FOR YOUR THOUGHTS: The data center build-out underway in California is running into a water backlash before the state has rules to deal with it.
Local fights are flaring over proposed data centers in Kern and Imperial Counties, some of California’s most water-parched regions. The ratcheting up of tension comes as two bills from Assemblymember Diane Papan that would force earlier disclosure of data centers’ projected and actual water use are winding their way through the Legislature, with a first hearing in the Senate scheduled next Tuesday.
