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Arizona’s water is drying up. That’s not stopping the data center rush.
It’s no secret that Arizona is worried about its water. The [Colorado River is drying up](https://grist.org/politics/colorado-river-deal-trump-burgum/), [in part due to climate change](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzpYHXgfbbI), and groundwater aquifers are running dry. Some of the state’s biggest industries are suffering as a result: Many farmers have been forced to rip up their cotton and alfalfa fields, and some home developers have been blocked from building new subdivisions. A state with hydrologic woes of this magnitude would seem an unlikely place to attract new factory-scale industries, which often have substantial water appetites themselves, but over the past year that’s exactly what’s happened. So-called hyperscaler tech companies like Microsoft and Meta have swarmed in to build the data centers fuelling the artificial-intelligence boom, and the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has spent billions of dollars on a factory complex outside Phoenix. This [rapid](https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/desert-storm-can-data-centres-slake-their-insatiable-thirst-water--ecmii-2025-12-17/) [development](https://fortune.com/2024/04/08/tsmc-water-usage-phoenix-chips-act-commerce-department-semiconductor-manufacturing/) has [triggered](https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/tech/2024/11/04/phoenix-provides-water-to-a-new-chipmaker-any-cause-for-worry/75917812007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z1104xxe1104xxv004275d--47--b--47--&gca-ft=198&gca-ds=sophi) [fears](https://www.apmresearchlab.org/10x/data-centers-resource) that the industry will suck up the finite water supplies available to residents of Phoenix and Tucson. So far, however, these predictions have not come true. Even though Arizona will soon be home to nearly 200 data centers and chip factories, these facilities have not yet caused a major bump in the state’s water consumption. The companies’ precise effects on water supply are hard to discern due to their own secrecy about their water usage, but the aggregate picture suggests they have found ways to minimize their impact, whether through new cooling technologies or by recycling water on-site. And despite [local](https://news.azpm.org/s/102502-marana-data-center-vote-sparks-backlash-three-residents-launch-council-runs/) [backlash](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/15/tucson-arizona-ai-data-center-project-blue), water experts and many local officials appear to have largely made their peace with the industry’s arrival — and with the Phoenix region’s emergence as one of the nation’s largest AI infrastructure clusters. “There’s not a hair-on-fire context right now,” said Sarah Porter, a fellow at Arizona State University’s Kyl Center for Water Policy. “We just don’t see it.” Arizona is home to [more than 150 data centers](https://www.datacentermap.com/usa/arizona/), according to an analysis from the Data Center Map, an industry resource. Each of these buildings contains thousands of servers that need to stay cool in the desert heat as they process computational queries. This cooling can be done with air conditioners, but it’s more efficient to surround them with pipes full of cold water, or to use evaporating mists to draw out hot air. Cooling systems like these *can* consume a huge amount of water, but [no one knows](https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/tech/2026/02/04/arizona-data-centers-water-power-use/88054536007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z119875p003550c003550e1185xxv119875d--55--b--55--&gca-ft=206&gca-ds=sophi) how much they *are* consuming. Independent estimates suggest that an average data center can use anywhere from [50,000](https://www.eenews.net/articles/states-push-to-end-secrecy-over-data-center-water-use/) to [5 million](https://www.eesi.org/articles/view/data-centers-and-water-consumption) gallons of water per day. An [analysis](https://www.ceres.org/resources/reports/drained-by-data-the-cumulative-impact-of-data-centers-on-regional-water-stress) from the sustainability advocacy organization Ceres estimated that the data centers active in Phoenix last summer used around 385 million gallons of water per year. Ceres projected that the metropolitan’s data center water consumption could grow tenfold to around 3.8 billion gallons per year. But even that worst-case-scenario would make data center usage equivalent to just around 1 percent of total [residential water consumption](https://www.azwater.gov/adwr-data-dashboards) in the Phoenix area — and less than half a percent of the region’s total 2024 water usage. (A comparison with agricultural usage is even more stark: Agriculture uses [more than 70 percent](https://environment.arizona.edu/news/where-does-our-water-come) of the state’s water, and still accounts for around 35 percent of water consumption even in the Phoenix metro, the state’s most urban region.) Furthermore, there’s some evidence that Ceres’ estimates may be too high. State data show that
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Venezuela: Rodríguez Hosts Trump Official, Announces Mining Law Reform
Caracas, March 5, 2026 ([venezuelanalysis.com](https://venezuelanalysis.com/)) – Venezuelan Acting President Delcy Rodríguez met Wednesday with US Interior Secretary Doug Burgum at the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas to discuss a bilateral agenda focused on energy and mining. Senior officials from both countries also attended a closed-door meeting, including US Chargé d’Affaires Laura Dogu and Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello. Rodríguez and Burgum later gave a joint press conference. “We welcomed Burgum to address important aspects related to metallic, non-metallic, strategic and non-strategic minerals,” the acting president told reporters. “We want the Venezuelan people to see the advantage of having good relations with the world and with the United States.” Rodríguez said that her economic team will soon present a proposal to the National Assembly to “expand” Venezuela’s Mining Law, urging lawmakers to reform it “swiftly” in order to showcase “investment and development opportunities in the mining sector” to both domestic and international business groups. Venezuela’s current mining legislation was approved in 1999. Rodríguez noted that the government intends to replicate the “win-win formula” of the recent [hydrocarbon reform](https://venezuelanalysis.com/opinion/the-venezuelan-organic-law-on-hydrocarbons/) approved on January 29, which introduced wide-reaching benefits for foreign capital in the oil sector. Under the overhauled legislation, private operators get expanded control over operations, with limited parliamentary oversight and a reduced tax burden. Rodríguez also [thanked](https://x.com/delcyrodriguezv/status/2029303103980245356) US President Donald Trump for a social media post praising the Venezuelan acting president for “doing a great job.” The Venezuelan leader highlighted the US government’s “kind disposition” to work on a “mutually beneficial” cooperation agenda. For his part, Burgum said that Venezuela is “an extraordinarily rich nation” in oil, gas, and [critical minerals](https://venezuelanalysis.com/infographics/subsoil-bonanza-venezuelas-natural-resources/?swcfpc=1), adding that the opportunities for collaboration between the two countries “have no limits.” He serves as chair of the US National Energy Dominance Council as well. According to the senior White House official, who holds the natural resources portfolio, the potential cooperation could deliver something “truly remarkable” for both the Venezuelan and American people. Burgum’s delegation included representatives from over 20 US and Canadian mining companies, some of them with a past presence in Venezuela. “These companies are ready to begin,” he said. “I know that [Acting President] Rodríguez, like President Trump, wants to cut bureaucratic red tape so this capital investment can start flowing.” Among the companies represented in the visit were US firms Peabody Energy—the world’s largest private coal company—Hartree Partners, Orion CMC, Paulson & Co., and Caterpillar Inc., along with Canada’s Lundin Mining Corp and Singapore-based commodities trader Trafigura. Canadian miner Gold Reserve also [announced](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260305182341/en/Gold-Reserve-Returns-to-Venezuela) plans to return to the Caribbean nation and disclosed a 30-day US Treasury license to negotiate with Caracas. According to [Axios](https://www.axios.com/2026/03/05/trump-us-venezuela-gold-deal), US officials additionally negotiated a multimillion-dollar agreement with Venezuela’s state mining company Minerven to sell up to one metric ton of gold to the US market, currently valued at roughly $165 million. The deal would require Minerven to supply between 650 and 1,000 kilograms of doré gold bars—a crude alloy of gold and silver with 50 to 90 percent purity—to Trafigura, which would transport the metal to US refineries. The transaction details were not disclosed, including whether Trafigura will deposit payment in US-run accounts in an arrangement similar to the one the Trump administration has imposed for Venezuelan oil exports. Burgum is the fourth senior US official to visit Venezuela since the January 3 US military strikes and [kidnapping](https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/breaking-us-launches-attack-against-venezuela/) of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, National Assembly deputy Cilia Flores. Earlier visits included [US Southern Command](https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-rodriguez-hosts-southcom-chief-discusses-bilateral-agenda-against-drug-trafficking-and-terrorism/) chief Francis Donovan, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and US Energy Secretary [Chris Wright](https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/rodriguez-hails-long-term-us-energy-ties-as-trump-official-vows-to-set-venezuela-free/?swcfpc=1). Venezuela possesses vast unexplored and proven [mineral reserves](https://venezuelanalysis.com/infographics/subsoil-bonanza-venezuelas-natural-resources/?swcfpc=1), including significant gold, i
View originalArizona’s water is drying up. That’s not stopping the data center rush.
It’s no secret that Arizona is worried about its water. The [Colorado River is drying up](https://grist.org/politics/colorado-river-deal-trump-burgum/), [in part due to climate change](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzpYHXgfbbI), and groundwater aquifers are running dry. Some of the state’s biggest industries are suffering as a result: Many farmers have been forced to rip up their cotton and alfalfa fields, and some home developers have been blocked from building new subdivisions. A state with hydrologic woes of this magnitude would seem an unlikely place to attract new factory-scale industries, which often have substantial water appetites themselves, but over the past year that’s exactly what’s happened. So-called hyperscaler tech companies like Microsoft and Meta have swarmed in to build the data centers fuelling the artificial-intelligence boom, and the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has spent billions of dollars on a factory complex outside Phoenix. This [rapid](https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/desert-storm-can-data-centres-slake-their-insatiable-thirst-water--ecmii-2025-12-17/) [development](https://fortune.com/2024/04/08/tsmc-water-usage-phoenix-chips-act-commerce-department-semiconductor-manufacturing/) has [triggered](https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/tech/2024/11/04/phoenix-provides-water-to-a-new-chipmaker-any-cause-for-worry/75917812007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z1104xxe1104xxv004275d--47--b--47--&gca-ft=198&gca-ds=sophi) [fears](https://www.apmresearchlab.org/10x/data-centers-resource) that the industry will suck up the finite water supplies available to residents of Phoenix and Tucson. So far, however, these predictions have not come true. Even though Arizona will soon be home to nearly 200 data centers and chip factories, these facilities have not yet caused a major bump in the state’s water consumption. The companies’ precise effects on water supply are hard to discern due to their own secrecy about their water usage, but the aggregate picture suggests they have found ways to minimize their impact, whether through new cooling technologies or by recycling water on-site. And despite [local](https://news.azpm.org/s/102502-marana-data-center-vote-sparks-backlash-three-residents-launch-council-runs/) [backlash](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/15/tucson-arizona-ai-data-center-project-blue), water experts and many local officials appear to have largely made their peace with the industry’s arrival — and with the Phoenix region’s emergence as one of the nation’s largest AI infrastructure clusters. “There’s not a hair-on-fire context right now,” said Sarah Porter, a fellow at Arizona State University’s Kyl Center for Water Policy. “We just don’t see it.” Arizona is home to [more than 150 data centers](https://www.datacentermap.com/usa/arizona/), according to an analysis from the Data Center Map, an industry resource. Each of these buildings contains thousands of servers that need to stay cool in the desert heat as they process computational queries. This cooling can be done with air conditioners, but it’s more efficient to surround them with pipes full of cold water, or to use evaporating mists to draw out hot air. Cooling systems like these *can* consume a huge amount of water, but [no one knows](https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/tech/2026/02/04/arizona-data-centers-water-power-use/88054536007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z119875p003550c003550e1185xxv119875d--55--b--55--&gca-ft=206&gca-ds=sophi) how much they *are* consuming. Independent estimates suggest that an average data center can use anywhere from [50,000](https://www.eenews.net/articles/states-push-to-end-secrecy-over-data-center-water-use/) to [5 million](https://www.eesi.org/articles/view/data-centers-and-water-consumption) gallons of water per day. An [analysis](https://www.ceres.org/resources/reports/drained-by-data-the-cumulative-impact-of-data-centers-on-regional-water-stress) from the sustainability advocacy organization Ceres estimated that the data centers active in Phoenix last summer used around 385 million gallons of water per year. Ceres projected that the metropolitan’s data center water consumption could grow tenfold to around 3.8 billion gallons per year. But even that worst-case-scenario would make data center usage equivalent to just around 1 percent of total [residential water consumption](https://www.azwater.gov/adwr-data-dashboards) in the Phoenix area — and less than half a percent of the region’s total 2024 water usage. (A comparison with agricultural usage is even more stark: Agriculture uses [more than 70 percent](https://environment.arizona.edu/news/where-does-our-water-come) of the state’s water, and still accounts for around 35 percent of water consumption even in the Phoenix metro, the state’s most urban region.) Furthermore, there’s some evidence that Ceres’ estimates may be too high. State data show that
View originalArizona’s water is drying up. That’s not stopping the data center rush.
It’s no secret that Arizona is worried about its water. The [Colorado River is drying up](https://grist.org/politics/colorado-river-deal-trump-burgum/), [in part due to climate change](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzpYHXgfbbI), and groundwater aquifers are running dry. Some of the state’s biggest industries are suffering as a result: Many farmers have been forced to rip up their cotton and alfalfa fields, and some home developers have been blocked from building new subdivisions. A state with hydrologic woes of this magnitude would seem an unlikely place to attract new factory-scale industries, which often have substantial water appetites themselves, but over the past year that’s exactly what’s happened. So-called hyperscaler tech companies like Microsoft and Meta have swarmed in to build the data centers fuelling the artificial-intelligence boom, and the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has spent billions of dollars on a factory complex outside Phoenix. This [rapid](https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/desert-storm-can-data-centres-slake-their-insatiable-thirst-water--ecmii-2025-12-17/) [development](https://fortune.com/2024/04/08/tsmc-water-usage-phoenix-chips-act-commerce-department-semiconductor-manufacturing/) has [triggered](https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/tech/2024/11/04/phoenix-provides-water-to-a-new-chipmaker-any-cause-for-worry/75917812007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z1104xxe1104xxv004275d--47--b--47--&gca-ft=198&gca-ds=sophi) [fears](https://www.apmresearchlab.org/10x/data-centers-resource) that the industry will suck up the finite water supplies available to residents of Phoenix and Tucson. So far, however, these predictions have not come true. Even though Arizona will soon be home to nearly 200 data centers and chip factories, these facilities have not yet caused a major bump in the state’s water consumption. The companies’ precise effects on water supply are hard to discern due to their own secrecy about their water usage, but the aggregate picture suggests they have found ways to minimize their impact, whether through new cooling technologies or by recycling water on-site. And despite [local](https://news.azpm.org/s/102502-marana-data-center-vote-sparks-backlash-three-residents-launch-council-runs/) [backlash](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/15/tucson-arizona-ai-data-center-project-blue), water experts and many local officials appear to have largely made their peace with the industry’s arrival — and with the Phoenix region’s emergence as one of the nation’s largest AI infrastructure clusters. “There’s not a hair-on-fire context right now,” said Sarah Porter, a fellow at Arizona State University’s Kyl Center for Water Policy. “We just don’t see it.” Arizona is home to [more than 150 data centers](https://www.datacentermap.com/usa/arizona/), according to an analysis from the Data Center Map, an industry resource. Each of these buildings contains thousands of servers that need to stay cool in the desert heat as they process computational queries. This cooling can be done with air conditioners, but it’s more efficient to surround them with pipes full of cold water, or to use evaporating mists to draw out hot air. Cooling systems like these *can* consume a huge amount of water, but [no one knows](https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/tech/2026/02/04/arizona-data-centers-water-power-use/88054536007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z119875p003550c003550e1185xxv119875d--55--b--55--&gca-ft=206&gca-ds=sophi) how much they *are* consuming. Independent estimates suggest that an average data center can use anywhere from [50,000](https://www.eenews.net/articles/states-push-to-end-secrecy-over-data-center-water-use/) to [5 million](https://www.eesi.org/articles/view/data-centers-and-water-consumption) gallons of water per day. An [analysis](https://www.ceres.org/resources/reports/drained-by-data-the-cumulative-impact-of-data-centers-on-regional-water-stress) from the sustainability advocacy organization Ceres estimated that the data centers active in Phoenix last summer used around 385 million gallons of water per year. Ceres projected that the metropolitan’s data center water consumption could grow tenfold to around 3.8 billion gallons per year. But even that worst-case-scenario would make data center usage equivalent to just around 1 percent of total [residential water consumption](https://www.azwater.gov/adwr-data-dashboards) in the Phoenix area — and less than half a percent of the region’s total 2024 water usage. (A comparison with agricultural usage is even more stark: Agriculture uses [more than 70 percent](https://environment.arizona.edu/news/where-does-our-water-come) of the state’s water, and still accounts for around 35 percent of water consumption even in the Phoenix metro, the state’s most urban region.) Furthermore, there’s some evidence that Ceres’ estimates may be too high. State data show that
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