What data centres can learn from mining about water

[David Salt]

In Australia and around the world, there’s growing concern about water usage connected to planned data centres. The industry claims that there are significant economic outputs per unit of water used but, as the mining industry has discovered in the past, this fact by itself does not solve social conflicts over water. Here, Nadja Kunz and colleagues discuss how the data-centre sector can learn from the mining sector about how it can keep its social license to operate by improving its water use, management and reporting practices.

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