The reviewed utility order establishes Google Fort Wayne's cooling design and water use.
Limit: Cooling architecture, source water, and permitted or measured withdrawal, consumption, and discharge.
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Checked claims about water & cooling
12 checked claims so far on this topic. Withdrawal, consumption, discharge, make-up water and avoided potable use remain separate measures. Not a census of water & cooling claims or of data centers. Cooling and water record set →
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Company claims are shown as stated; they are not findings.
Google says The Dalles aquifer project added more than 100 million gallons a year of stored-water capacity for the community.
Limit: Site-specific cooling design, cooling-water source, and measured data-center withdrawal, consumption, and discharge.
Meta's Jeffersonville announcement establishes the campus's cooling design and water use.
Limit: Cooling architecture, source water, and permitted or measured withdrawal, consumption, and discharge.
Microsoft says its Mount Pleasant pilot will use closed-loop chip-level cooling without evaporating water for cooling.
Limit: Operating configuration, initial-fill volume, other site water uses, and measured withdrawal, consumption,…
Closed-loop liquid cooling means the Meta Lebanon campus will use no water.
Limit: Actual annual withdrawal and consumption, potable and nonpotable shares…
Google reported 2025 withdrawal, discharge and consumption figures for its New Albany, Lancaster and Lockbourne campuses.
Limit: Independent utility/meter corroboration;
EPA documents an operating water-reuse system serving Microsoft's Quincy campus.
Limit: Current measured withdrawal, consumption and discharge;
Treating New Albany's no-additional-capacity statement as proof that facility-level water impact is negligible.
Limit: Independent utility/meter records;
Treating Ohio EPA's draft general permit as final blanket permission or proof of actual discharge.
Limit: Individual permits for named data-center outfalls were not inventoried.
Source-water mix, permitted quantity, and current metered withdrawal/consumption at AWS New Carlisle.
Limit: Source water, permitted quantity, current metered withdrawal/consumption, and completion.
Approximately 18 million gallons per year at full buildout
Limit: Permit quantity, current metered withdrawal/consumption, source-water mix and completion.
Closed-loop liquid cooling; zero cooling water for most of the year
Limit: Operating configuration, total site water and measured consumption.
What this covers. 12 checked claims so far on this topic. They concern data-center projects in Indiana (6), Ohio (3), Oregon (1), Washington (1) and Wisconsin (1). That is because those are the water & cooling claims DataCenterData has checked, not a count of claims or of data centers. Where a state, operator, project or topic shows no checked claim, read it as “not yet checked by DataCenterData”.
What a verdict means. A verdict applies only to the wording shown and the evidence linked on the check date. “Unknown” means the reviewed evidence did not establish the point; it never means zero or false.
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