Data Center Sustainability

Data centers require substantial electricity, cooling, water, land, and construction materials, linking their environmental footprint to both facility design and the grids and communities around them.

Approaches to reduce that footprint include low-carbon siting and power procurement, more efficient or recycled-water cooling, reuse of waste heat, and shifting flexible computing workloads to better match renewable electricity and ease peak demand. These measures must be assessed alongside grid constraints, local water conditions, construction impacts, and the distribution of costs and benefits, with disclosure and public participation helping inform planning.