Water Usage by Data Centers
What do Data centers use so much water for?
To cool the electronics and prevent overheating
when do data centers require electricity
24/7
what green house gas is most commonly associated with Data Center electricity generation
Carbon Dioxide
True or false
Do data centers create construction and permanent jobs?
true
why does nebraska provide tax breaks to data center companies?
To attract investment, create jobs, and increase economic development
about how many gallons of water did google's pavilion data center use last year?
hint its either 5 mil, 50 mil, or 550 mil
550 million gallons
what part of the data center requires the most electricity?
hint its either computer processors, specialized accelerators, or liquid cooling devices
computer processors
True or False
Data centers can contribute to greenhouse gas emission
they do not directly release Co2 but the electricity they use may come from burning fossil fuels
Does construction of data centers, or daily operations of data centers create more jobs?
Construction
about how much direct tax revenue did Nebraska lose to data centers between 2021 and 2026
100 million
200 million
300 million
300 million
How many households worth of water does google's Papillion data center use?
5000
How much electricity does Meta's Sarpy county data center use in a year? in KWh
1.7 million or 1.7 billion?
1.7 billion
Besides electrical consumption name one other source of greenhouse gas emission associated with data centers
Concrete or steel production, backups generators
manufacturing of servers
Besides creating jobs how can data centers benefit a community? name one way
Property tax revenue, local business spending, infrastructure development
what is the name of Nebraska's economics incentive program that provided tax breaks to data centers
imagiNE
creative right
how many swimming pools can you fill with the water used at the Papillion data center in 1 year( I will take with 100)
833
how many households worth of electricity does the Sarpy County data center use in a year?
146,000 households
why might two data centers with the same electricity usage have different carbon footprints
the sources of electricity they are using, (wind, coal, solar, or nuclear)
why might a community question the economic value of a multibillion dollar data center that creates relatively few permanent jobs?
because long term benefits are limited compared to the resources consumed and public incentives provided
what major change to data center tax breaks did Gov Jim Pillen make in July 2026?
He signed an executive order prohibiting new data center application from being considered for the imagiNE Nebraska act incentives
How many acres of farm land could be irrigated by the water used by all the data centers in nebraska
2500-3500 acres
what is the difference between a MW and a MWh
MW is electrical power
MWh is the electricity consumed over time
how many metric tons of Co2 does the Sarpy county data center indirectly produce in a year?
822,000 metric tons
about 179,000 cars would produce this in a year
this is worth 1000 points
from a Capitalocene perspective why might rapid expansion of AI data centers be considered an example of environmental violence
Because corporations can accumulate wealth through tech expansion while environmental burdens are disproportionately experienced by the local community
How much in Nebraska subsidies has Meta (Facebook/instagram) received?
yes we give THEM money
311 million