EQUIPThe Verge · 51m ago
Amazon wants to help the Colorado River, but we still don’t know how much water the company uses
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Amazon is committing twenty million dollars toward Colorado River conservation projects to address Western U.S. water scarcity. This initiative follows intensifying scrutiny regarding the significant water requirements of the company's expanding data center operations.
- 01Amazon will invest twenty million dollars in water conservation for the Colorado River basin
- 02Forty million people currently rely on the river as a primary water source
- 03Tech firms face increased public pressure to disclose data center water consumption metrics
- 04The initiative supports Amazon's corporate goal of becoming water positive by 2030
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Amazon plans to spend $20 million on water conservation projects along the Colorado River, a crucial but dwindling water supply for 40 million people in the Western US. The initiative comes as Amazon and other tech companies face mounting scrutiny over how much water their data centers use. Amazon has a goal of becoming water […]