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At general public comment, William Wagner said the Secador Edge data center pitched for the Black Hills Industrial Center expanded from a reported 10-megawatt site to a listed 15-megawatt maximum and argued such scaling could increase water and cooling demands and raise noise/infrasound risks; he cited South Dakota codified law concerning beneficial water use and asked the city attorney for a formal opinion.

Amy Gillette, a Shawnee County resident, told commissioners the water footprint of a proposed 600-megawatt Compass campus could equal billions of gallons each year when electricity-generation water is counted; she urged the county to require full lifecycle water-consumption figures.

As the Southwest’s cherished Colorado River faces a growing crisis, Amazon announced Monday it is forming an alliance of corporations to bankroll fixes to canals, pipelines, and farms in the Colorado ...

Data centers are the physical backbone of the digital world, and they require vast quantities of water to operate. As cloud and AI services are deployed on an ever-larger scale, these facilities will draw more heavily on local water resources in the future, also in Switzerland. At the same time, both the federal government and the public remain largely in the dark about exactly how much water the country’s data centers consume. With increasingly frequent droughts and water scarcity, this could become a problem.

Supervisors and residents discussed a recent data center presentation and broader concerns about water use, turbine recycling litigation and zoning. Speakers noted the county's moratorium on permits was placed earlier; supervisors said zoning and ordinances must be addressed before permits proceed.

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The Norman City Council unanimously adopted a one‑year moratorium (with emergency clause) on large data centers on June 23, 2026, directing staff to study likely impacts on the city’s water supply, electricity grid, air emissions, and siting rules and to propose regulations.