{"id":2356,"date":"2026-06-22T04:12:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T04:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=2356"},"modified":"2026-06-22T04:12:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T04:12:35","slug":"fear-of-data-centers-outpaces-knowledge-about-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=2356","title":{"rendered":"Fear of data centers outpaces knowledge about them"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>KEY POINTS<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Utah residents have raised concerns that the proposed Stratos data center in Box Elder County could increase water use, electricity costs, emissions and heat in the region.<\/li>\n<li>Estimates about data centers&#8217; water use vary widely, and researchers say older claims that each AI prompt consumes a bottle of water are not accurate.<\/li>\n<li>Data center water use depends heavily on design, location and cooling methods, with some facilities using far more water than others.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Data centers generally have not caused increases in residential electricity rates, with other factors like fuel prices and state policies playing larger roles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Last week in Springville, Utah, a group of young moms sat in Memorial Park, watching their toddlers play. In the high-70-degree weather, atop the park\u2019s green grass, the conversation turned to data centers. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=2354\">Who\u2019s the best coach in the Big 12? On3\u2019s Brett McMurphy thinks it\u2019s BYU\u2019s Kalani Sitake<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One mom had mused how she was going to keep her new infant cool this summer, and Matty Shmitz responded with worry that the approved data center in Box Elder County was going to make the summer\u2019s heat worse. <\/p>\n<p>In a later conversation with the Deseret News, Shmitz described the data center as a \u201cconstant numb pain in the back of my brain.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Through TikTok, Instagram and news reports, Shmitz said she has developed serious concerns about the data center. <\/p>\n<p>Will it use an inordinate amount of water? Where will that water come from? Will it drive up the cost of electricity and increase the temperature? And at the root of it, why are we risking Utah\u2019s beautiful land to fuel artificial intelligence, when it seems like artificial intelligence will hurt American society? <\/p>\n<p>The Stratos Project is one of more than 1,800 U.S.-based data centers in various stages of development. Once built, it will join more than 3,100 data centers already in operation across the United States, the earliest of which were built in the 1990s. <\/p>\n<p>Backed by \u201cShark Tank\u201d investor Kevin O\u2019Leary, the project as planned is massive compared to other data centers in the U.S. At full buildout, it will have a power capacity of 9 gigawatts \u2014 roughly 90 to 225 times larger than the average data center, which uses 40 to 100 megawatts.<\/p>\n<p>These existing data centers power the digital infrastructure behind the internet. <\/p>\n<p>If you store images in the cloud, buy anything with a debit card, ask Siri a question, stream a show on Netflix, or load directions on Google Maps, you\u2019re using a data center. <\/p>\n<p>But data centers\u2019 everyday utility has been lost in a haze of anxiety about new proposals. Shmitz is not alone in her concerns. More than half of Utah\u2019s residents say they oppose the data center in Box Elder County, according to a Deseret News-Hinckley Institute poll conducted mid-May. <\/p>\n<p>So it makes sense to ask: Are concerns about data centers well-founded?<\/p>\n<h3>The water consumption confusion<\/h3>\n<p>In 2024, The Washington Post released a report claiming that a 100-word email written by ChatGPT consumes an entire bottle of water or 519 milliliters. <\/p>\n<p>The article proceeded to scale up that number: one ChatGPT-generated email a week for a year consumes 27 liters of water; one ChatGPT-generated email a week for a year from 10% of the U.S. population (16 million people) requires more than 435 million liters \u2014 \u201cequal to the water consumed by all Rhode Island households for 1.5 days.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Readers were then left to fill in the blanks about usage. In 2025, ChatGPT was queried about 2.5 billion times a day. <\/p>\n<p>Based on the Post\u2019s measurements, 2.5 billion queries (if they were all the size of an email) would require nearly 343 million gallons of water \u2014 more than 520 Olympic-sized swimming pools \u2014 a day. <\/p>\n<p>When Andy Masley, a former physics teacher turned writer, saw this report, it didn\u2019t sit well with him. So he started looking into the article\u2019s methodology, then reached out to the researcher tapped for the calculation, Shaolei Ren, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Riverside. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Describing ChatGPT as a single model that has universal resource needs is incorrect<\/p>\n<p><span>\u2014 \u00a0<!-- -->Shaolei Ren, associate professor at the University of California, Riverside<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe majority of that bottle of water, even in (Ren\u2019s) own estimates, isn\u2019t actually used in the data center itself. It\u2019s used in offsite power plants to generate the electricity,\u201d Masley told the Deseret News. <\/p>\n<p>About half of the water-bottle estimate comes from evaporation off lakes dammed by hydro plants to generate hydropower.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been emailing back and forth with (Ren) who made this estimate, and he agrees with me that the actual estimate is way, way smaller,\u201d Masley said. <\/p>\n<p>Masley said more current estimates, from experts like EcoLogits, find that individual prompts cost between 1-10 milliliters of water, about 99% smaller than the estimate published by the Washington Post. The amount of water actually used in the data center is smaller still \u2014 about 0.2-2 milliliters. <\/p>\n<p>In a conversation with the Deseret News, Ren said the Washington Post\u2019s report should not be considered an accurate measure of today\u2019s artificial intelligence water demands. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot just use a number from two years ago to describe today\u2019s system. And we cannot use specific models\u2019 results to generalize other models. I could give you a super efficient AI model that uses almost zero resources, or I could give you a very large model that can \u2014 it\u2019s just never correct to say, \u2018AI uses this much water,\u2019\u201d Ren said. <\/p>\n<p>Even describing ChatGPT as a single model with universal resource needs is incorrect, he continued. \u201cChatGPT is not a single model. Nobody knows what exactly they\u2019re doing under the hood. So I don\u2019t know the resource efficiency,\u201d Ren said. <\/p>\n<p>A chatbot\u2019s efficiency depends on a spread of factors, he explained. To make AI more efficient, engineers optimize its hardware, algorithms and how workloads are scheduled. Its efficiency can change dramatically if it\u2019s in thinking mode, reasoning mode or plain text output, as well as a myriad of other ways. <\/p>\n<p>Basing current AI efficiency off a source from several years ago is a recipe for misinformation, Jonathan Koomey, a researcher, formerly at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, who\u2019s been studying data centers for more than 25 years, told the Deseret News. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the things about computing equipment that is hard for people to get their head around is that it changes fast,\u201d he said. \u201cThe problem is that three or four years is an eternity when it comes to computing equipment. Things have probably turned over a couple times in terms of the latest tech since then.\u201d <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s not as simple as saying, \u2018Well, we shouldn\u2019t let data centers use water,\u2019 because if you do that, the cooling will be less efficient<\/p>\n<p><span>\u2014 \u00a0<!-- -->Jonathan Koomey, an independent researcher, formerly at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>So how much water does a data center use?<\/h3>\n<p>Data centers have extreme variability in terms of water use. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAverages don\u2019t mean anything,\u201d Koomey said. \u201cIt\u2019s very specific to data center designs and their locations.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>For example, Meta\u2019s data center in Eagle Mountain, Utah, used  in 2024. The facility is 4.5 million square feet and used 1.1 million megawatt hours of energy that year. Meanwhile, Meta\u2019s Prineville, Oregon data center \u2014 a 4.6 million square-foot facility \u2014 used 1.7 million megawatt hours of energy and consumed about 86.6 million gallons of water. <\/p>\n<p>Most water-cost estimates include both direct and indirect water use. Direct water use happens inside the data center itself, primarily to cool servers, and indirect water use largely comes from the water required to generate electricity to power the facility. <\/p>\n<p>So a low-water data center would need to be powered by a low-water energy source and use low-water technology within its walls. <\/p>\n<p>Koomey warned that reducing data center water use is not always a net benefit. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople use water because it\u2019s very energy efficient to cool with,\u201d he explained. \u201cSome data center companies use cooling towers, and that\u2019s a relatively water intense way to do it, but it\u2019s also incredibly energy efficient. And so that saves electricity at the data center.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>If a developer opts to reduce water by cooling with air, the air-cooling system will likely require a larger amount of water in electricity generation than the water-cooling system would demand. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not as simple as saying, \u2018Well, we shouldn\u2019t let data centers use water,\u2019 because if you do that, the cooling will be less efficient,\u201d Koomey said. \u201cYou\u2019ll use more electricity, then you\u2019ll use more water because it turns out the water intensity of electricity generation is actually pretty high.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>Identified by researchers and developers, the factors influencing data center water consumption ranked by order of impact include server efficiency, how local power is generated, server utilization, cooling system type, infrastructure efficiency, the local climate, inactive server percentage and how often hardware is replaced with efficient new hardware.\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Within a data center, the amount of water required to process a single task is similarly varied. According to peer-reviewed research published last summer, a single task\u2019s water cost varies by a magnitude of 10,000. <\/p>\n<p>Northern Utah\u2019s Stratos Project has a wide range for how much water it is estimated to use. Project developers say they will likely use between 500 and 1,100 acre-feet of water annually \u2014 or 163 million to 358 million gallons of water. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=2352\">Faith without politics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has said the Stratos Project will use less water than the area currently uses. \u201cThere are issues that people should be concerned about for use, but water is not one of them in this particular case,\u201d he said in late May. <\/p>\n<h3>How do data centers compare to other industries in water intensity?<\/h3>\n<p>In a conversation with the Deseret News, Neil Chilson, the head of AI policy at the Abundance Institute, compared data centers\u2019 water intensity with other industries.<\/p>\n<p>Many data centers use \u201cabout the same water as a medium sized brewery,\u201d he told the Deseret News. <\/p>\n<p>In 2021, U.S. data centers collectively used 449 million gallons of water per day, accounting for 0.14% of the country\u2019s total daily water consumption, according to the University of Georgia. <\/p>\n<p>For context, other common goods consume an enormous amount of water. A single walnut takes about five gallons of water to produce, and a hamburger takes about 660. <\/p>\n<p>In 2018, the average walnut farm yielded about 1.93 tons per acre; a 100-acre farm produces about 193 tons of in-shell walnuts. With the average weight of a single in-shell walnut at 11.7 grams, 193 tons would include 15 million walnuts. So the walnuts produced on a 100-acre farm would consume 75 million gallons of water. <\/p>\n<p>By comparison, Meta\u2019s Eagle Mountain data center, which is also about 100 acres, consumed about 35 million gallons in 2024 \u2014 about half that of a 100-acre walnut farm. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Americans consume about 50 billion burgers a year. If it takes 660 gallons of water to produce one burger, American burger consumption eats about 33 trillion gallons of water a year. <\/p>\n<h3>Data centers\u2019 thermal load<\/h3>\n<p>Dr. Robert Davies, a professor of physics at Utah State University, released preliminary analysis on the thermal load, or \u201cwaste heat,\u201d of a 9 gigawatt natural gas plant, if built in Hansel Valley where the Stratos Project is proposed. <\/p>\n<p>He suggested generating the power needed for the data center could potentially warm the valley in Box Elder County by several degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Davies did not have a formal uncertainty analysis for his study, and he was unwilling to share his prompt data, results and assumptions with the Deseret News. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to emphasize, this is a relatively simple estimation, not intended to be rigorous,\u201d he told the Deseret News. \u201cJust demonstrating that there\u2019s reason to believe the effect will be significant.\u201d <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The challenge with something like Stratos is that it\u2019s very unusual in that it\u2019s the data center plus the power plant that\u2019s powering the data center.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u2014 \u00a0<!-- -->Dr. Robert Davies, a professor of physics at Utah State University<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If the Stratos Project is solely powered by an advanced natural gas plant, Davies estimated that it would impose 16 gigawatts of heat on the area. It would be the equivalent of 40,000 Walmart super centers all burning energy at the rate of about 0.4 megawatts, he said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe challenge with something like Stratos is that it\u2019s very unusual in that it\u2019s the data center plus the power plant that\u2019s powering the data center. That\u2019s what makes the thermal load so big and so concentrated,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Davies estimated that an area in the valley, ranging in size from about 116 square miles to 386 square miles, would experience temperature increases by 2\u2109\u20135\u2109 in the day and 8\u2109\u201312\u2109 at night. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the numbers I came up with, (dew point) is largely wiped out,\u201d he said. \u201cSo you don\u2019t get the overnight dew and frost, which is a large source of water for that ecosystem.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Davies said he hopes the state conducts thorough ecological analysis on what effects a 16 gigawatt thermal load would have. <\/p>\n<p>His preliminary thermal load estimate has spread throughout Utah. In her conversation with the Deseret News, Springville resident Matty Shmitz said, \u201cI\u2019ve been told is that (the Stratos Project) would raise the temperature of the state by like five degrees.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>While the scale of the Stratos Project is unprecedented, scientists have been able to study a close equivalent, the Urban Heat Island Effect. Cities around the world trap and generate massive amounts of heat, raising areas\u2019 temperatures by several degrees, especially at night. The Stratos Project may essentially create an urban heat island in the middle of a rural valley. <\/p>\n<p>For example, some areas of New York City are 9.7 degrees hotter than they would be without the city\u2019s massive population and infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p>Several days after the Stratos Project was proposed to use solely natural gas, Utah Gov. Cox said project developers were willing to use a variety of clean and renewable power sources. <\/p>\n<h3>The AI boom and electricity demand<\/h3>\n<p>In 2023, data centers made up about 4.4% of the country\u2019s annual electricity consumption. <\/p>\n<p>Koomey, who has researched American energy for decades, described the current electricity market as having \u201cmoderate demand growth.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it\u2019s not all data centers. It\u2019s not even mostly data centers,\u201d he told the Deseret News. \u201cChatGPT was announced in 2022. In 2023, electricity was the same as 2018. Zero growth. In 2024, growth was 2.1%. In 2025, growth was 2.5%. That\u2019s total growth for the U.S.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cThere has been growth in the last couple of years \u2014 a chunk of that is data centers \u2014 but it\u2019s not explosive growth. It\u2019s just moderate growth; 2% is normal.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Koomey said the hype around data centers reminds him of the dot-com bubble at the emergence of the internet. When the bubble burst in 2000, &#8220;97% of the fiber network was unused,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think anyone can tell you how much demand there\u2019s going to be even in three years, but having been through these cycles, these hype cycles, several times, I try to caution people not to assume that the conventional wisdom AI boom forecast is necessarily the right one,\u201d Koomey said. <\/p>\n<h3>Will data centers raise electricity costs?<\/h3>\n<p>In the case of the Stratos Project, it is natural to assume that such a monumental increase in electricity demand would lead to increased rates for Utahns. <\/p>\n<p>However, during the state\u2019s 2025 legislative session, lawmakers passed a bill requiring any power development for data center projects to not negatively impact electricity costs for Utahns. All power consumed by the data center will be generated onsite or brought in.<\/p>\n<p>For those living in states without such laws, empirical evidence suggests that data center construction does not meaningfully lead to increased utility bills. <\/p>\n<p>A University of Southern California professor, Shon Hiatt, recently presented research that shows data centers are responsible for only a  increase in residential power bills. <\/p>\n<p>Different research from Charles River Associates found that data centers \u201chave generally not caused retail rate increases,\u201d with the exception of the PJM \u2014 a region stretching from the midwest to the mid-Atlantic. <\/p>\n<p>The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ran a study between 2019 and 2025, which found that data centers did not influence electricity prices in a major way across most areas of the U.S. Instead, the biggest drivers in price hikes were natural gas prices, natural disasters and state energy and environmental policies. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=2350\">Former BYU star Zac Blair finishes in the middle of the pack at the U.S. Open<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What impact do data centers actually have on the environment? 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