Related: Residents seek more transparency from Google in water deal with The Dalles https://www.opb.org/article/2021/09/29/google-water-data-center-the-dalles-o

Related: Residents seek more transparency from Google in water deal with The Dalles https://www.opb.org/article/2021/09/29/google-water-data-center-the-dalles-oregon/ https://www.opb.org/article/2021/09/29/google-water-data-cen... Because the Columbia River has a requirement that its use must be net zero, Google (and others, but the article is about Google) can't use river water for evaporative cooling. https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/locations/the-dalles/ https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/locations/the-dalle... Google bought the water rights from an aluminum smelter... which allows it to withdraw 3.9 million gallons per day from the groundwater. ( https://www.registerguard.com/story/news/2021/10/25/big-tech-data-centers-spark-worry-over-scarce-water-the-dalles-oregon-google-amazon/6142726001/# https://www.registerguard.com/story/news/2021/10/25/big-tech... https://columbiacommunityconnection.com/the-dalles/google/data-plant/water/agreement/city-of-the-dalles https://columbiacommunityconnection.com/the-dalles/google/da... )