Checked claims about water & cooling

Evidence limitation: Whether the 23 acre-feet is a Phase 1 figure, as the Q&A says, or a full-buildout figure, as the fact sheet says; measured potable or recycled water use after opening; the recycled-water volume; the recycled-water agreements' terms and whether they were completed; the Water Supply Assessment (the page lists it as Appendix O of the environmental review, not read); and the conditions-of-approval text.

Evidence limitation: Microsoft's actual daily or annual water use in the West Des Moines system, the signed and dated agreement (the attachment is the form with a blank effective date), and whether the limitation period has ended.

Supported refers to this reading of the complaint. It does not verify the company’s figures, total site water use, the plaintiffs’ allegations or a court finding.

This is a party’s description of the Phase 1 application. Original applicant records and total site water demand were not reviewed.

Evidence limitation: These are a litigating party's descriptions and allegations about the Phase 1 application. The underlying applicant documents, hearing record, approval conditions and water-service agreements were not reviewed. Nothing here establishes measured use, total future demand, filing authenticity through the court docket, present litigation status or a court finding.

Evidence limitation: Measured withdrawal, consumption, discharge, or make-up water. Whether the air-cooling design is built. What the $10 million fund spends, and where.

Evidence limitation: Current measured withdrawal or consumption; operator and title-owner legal roles; reconciliation of 2100 versus 2400 and 2700 Bermuda Hundred Road.

Evidence limitation: Cooling architecture, source water, and permitted or measured withdrawal, consumption, and discharge.

Evidence limitation: Site-specific cooling design, cooling-water source, and measured data-center withdrawal, consumption, and discharge.

Evidence limitation: Cooling architecture, source water, and permitted or measured withdrawal, consumption, and discharge.

Evidence limitation: Operating configuration, initial-fill volume, other site water uses, and measured withdrawal, consumption, and discharge.

Evidence limitation: Actual annual withdrawal and consumption, potable and nonpotable shares, the heat-rejection architecture used in operation, and operating measurements.

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

Evidence limitation: Current measured withdrawal, consumption and discharge; a reconciled explanation of Microsoft's separate 380-million-gallon estimate; and operating changes after EPA's dated observations.

Evidence limitation: Independent utility/meter records; cooling-only share; peak-day demand; operators other than Google's company-reported 2025 campus rows.

Evidence limitation: Individual permits for named data-center outfalls were not inventoried. An individual NPDES permit is permission, not measured discharge or proof of compliance.

Evidence limitation: Source water, permitted quantity, current metered withdrawal/consumption, and completion.

Evidence limitation: Permit quantity, current metered withdrawal/consumption, source-water mix and completion.

Evidence limitation: Operating configuration, total site water and measured consumption.