Water & cooling · Google New Albany campus · OH

Google reported 2025 withdrawal, discharge and consumption figures for its New Albany, Lancaster and Lockbourne campuses.

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Company claims are shown as stated; they are not findings.

Public statement checked

Answer

Verdict on the wording above: Company claim The only support is the company or its agents. Shown as stated, not adopted. Not a finding that it is true or false. How verdicts work →

Who stated it
Said by Google · company statement in Google 2026 Environmental Report, p. 97 →
What the evidence establishes
Google's 2026 Environmental Report p. 97 publishes company-reported calendar-year 2025 figures, in million gallons: New Albany withdrawal 1,008.1 / discharge 172.4 / consumption 835.7; Lancaster 307.1 / 171.3 / 135.8; Lockbourne 460.8 / 101.3 / 359.5. It is shown as the company’s statement, not as a finding either way.
Biggest limitation
Independent utility/meter corroboration; cooling share; peak-day demand; operators other than Google.
Checked
12 September 2026 · Next review: Municipal or utility meter records for the named campuses · History (1) →

Evidence

What the evidence supports

Google's 2026 Environmental Report p. 97 publishes company-reported calendar-year 2025 figures, in million gallons: New Albany withdrawal 1,008.1 / discharge 172.4 / consumption 835.7; Lancaster 307.1 / 171.3 / 135.8; Lockbourne 460.8 / 101.3 / 359.5. DataCenterData independently re-extracted Google's table; that does not independently measure the underlying water. These are not city-meter evidence, cooling-only measures, or peak-day rates. Lockbourne remains a source label and is not attached to the Columbus campus record.

Still unknown

Independent utility/meter corroboration; cooling share; peak-day demand; operators other than Google.

Sources

  1. Google 2026 Environmental Report → Archived copy Company

    Exact location physical and printed p. 97 of 117, Water use by data center location — 2025; withdrawal, discharge and consumption columns; endnote 224

    What it supports Company-reported 2025 withdrawal, discharge and consumption by named campus. Google says water is potable unless specified. Third-party limited assurance is not a municipal meter audit.

    Publication date · Accessed

Corrections and history

Correction · 12 September 2026 · Software-assisted second check

Record → Water

Field Water

From The evidence link opened the report landing page and described the unit as million US gallons.

To The evidence link opens the report PDF, cites the exact p. 97 table, and uses its printed unit, million gallons.

Why Independent re-extraction confirmed the three Google-reported Ohio rows without turning company reporting into municipal measurement.

Evidence https://sustainability.google/files/google-2026-environmental-report.pdf →

Review details

Scope

Unit
million gallons
Geography
Google-named Ohio campuses
Period
calendar year 2025
Confidence
medium — Company environmental report; not a municipal meter audit.
Kind
Public statement checked

Conflicting evidence

None recorded when this claim was checked. That records what we logged, not a finding that no conflicting record exists.

Chronology

  1. Source retrieved
  2. Changed source locator recorded
  3. Checked by DataCenterData
  4. Date not established Stated by Google — statement date not established
  5. Date not established Published 2026 — Google 2026 Environmental Report
  6. Date not established Next review: Municipal or utility meter records for the named campuses

Data

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