- Southwest Gas serves a diverse customer base across Nevada, California, and Arizona.
- Federal plans impose water cutbacks on Nevada, Arizona, and California, impacting the Colorado River and the city of Denver.
Lawmakers are seeking transparency regarding data center water use as combined storage in the Colorado River system hits record lows.
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Updated Jul 30
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What happened
Lawmakers are seeking transparency regarding data center water use as combined storage in the Colorado River system hits record lows.
Who's involved
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Federal plans impose water cutbacks on Nevada, Arizona, and California, impacting the Colorado River and the city of Denver.Also in this story
- The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is imposing supply cuts and setting operating guidelines for the Colorado River basin states, including Arizona, Nevada, and California.
- The region adapts to reduced supplies of the Colorado River.
- Mandatory cuts threaten the Colorado River's flow.
- A Lower Basin three-state agreement was reached, alongside a co-authored call for river management action due to severe resource depletion.
Within Southwest Gas serves a diverse customer base across Nevada, California, and Arizona.
The entities involved
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Arizona
state of the United States of America
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Colorado River
major river in the western United States and Mexico
Related events
- AI data centers, including those operated by Meta, are consuming water resources in Arizona.
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- Data centers operated by Meta, Amazon, and Google are affecting local water supply and quality of life in Arizona.