More Australian data centres could cool down using recycled water after a US tech giant revealed plans to build its first local artificial intelligence hub using the resource.
Amazon announced a partnership with Greater Western Water on Thursday to supply recycled water to a data centre the company is building outside Melbourne.
The facility would be the first in Victoria to use treated water and comes after warnings from some providers that data centres in Sydney could use up to 250 megalitres of water a day by 2035, threatening drinking supplies.
It also comes one year after Amazon announced it would invest $20 billion to expand its data centre infrastructure in Australia, and as two government inquiries probe their potential impacts.
