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Research Notes: The Aquifer and the Algorithm

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A Z Mackay
Apr 07, 2026
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I had an interesting call with a Future Tense subscriber last week. As a result of that call I started wondering how much water a single data centre actually uses. Not the industry total, not the national figure, just one building. The answer turned out to be the thread that revealed a measurement gap so wide you could lose an entire industry’s environm…

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