Most data centers refusing to disclose their water and electricity use
Thom2503 · hn · 2026-09-30
Per NL Times, most data centers in the Netherlands are refusing to reveal how much water and electricity they consume, citing commercial confidentiality. As AI demand drives data center expansion, the lack of transparency makes it hard for regulators and the public to assess the environmental cost of the compute build-out.
More from Infra
- 33 Raptor 3 engines: SpaceX flies the most powerful rocket ever built — DimaZeniuk · 2026-09-30
- Tensorfold hits 40-60 tok/s on Qwen3.8-27B with Mac mini M5 Pro, beating MLX — AdRepulsive7837 · 2026-09-30
- GPU server AER errors traced to MCIO adapters, zero errors after swap — TheZachMueller · 2026-09-30
- Running a 35B LLM Killed a DDR4 Stick in 90 Minutes, User Claims — AIFlow_ML · 2026-09-30
- DeepSeek Partners With Huawei on Chip Software to Challenge Nvidia — pstAsiatech · 2026-09-30
- a16z: tech drove 76% of S&P 500 earnings growth, and even A100 rental rates are climbing — a16z Newsletter · 2026-09-30