Data Center Caught Watering Its Lavish Lawn While Human Neighbors Are on Year-Long Water Restriction
"You better believe that they are watering their entire green with so many sprinklers that it's literally making a giant pond." The post Data Center Caught Watering Its Lavish Lawn While Human Neighbors Are on Year-Long Water Restriction appeared first on Futurism .
In March, the Denver Board of Water Commissioners approved stage one drought restrictions due to exceptionally dry conditions, placing Denver’s watershed and the broader metropolitan area in "severe to exceptional drought" and "severe drought" categories, respectively. As a result, residents and businesses have been restricted to watering their lawns only two days per week, between 10am and 6pm.
However, a new 18 megawatt AI data center in Denver has been caught watering its expansive lawn through a viral video. One resident of the Elyria-Swansea neighborhood filmed the sprawling irrigation system, describing it as "literally making a giant pond." The photo went viral on social media, drawing attention to the data center's apparent disregard for the city's water restrictions.
While the data center's identity remains unconfirmed, experts suspect it's the recently operational 170,000-square-foot facility owned by CoreSite – a cloud computing company that partners with major tech firms like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. The legal ramifications of the data center's water usage remain unclear, as the exact filming date and whether recycled water is being used remain unknown.
Restrictions on lawn sprinklers are set to fully take effect in October and will remain in place until spring next year.
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