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by Alyse Coakley*, December 4, 2025   Data Centers and the Mississippi Data centers threaten to dominate land and water resources across the United States, and the world, as the demand for AI (artificial intelligence) continues to skyrocket. Major tech companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Meta all continue to build massive warehouses of internet servers that cost billions of dollars. Data centers consume massive amounts of energy— 10 to 50 times the amount of

By Matthew Allen, William B. Wiener, Jr. Family Foundation Research Fellow From October 6th- 10th, the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC or CEPAL, in Spanish), the Iberoamerican Conference of Water Directors and Authorities (CODIA, in Spanish), the UNESCO Intergovernmental Hydrological Program for Latin America and the Caribbean (PHI, in Spanish), and the Government of Chile hosted the Regional Water Week for Latin America and the Caribbean

In 2017, economists and climatologists came together published a report  describing the advantages that caring and protecting naturally...

Introduction Imagine the unthinkable happens: a Category 4 hurricane devastates your community. When you turn to the Federal Emergency...