{
  "id": 13784,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.22617",
  "title": "Balancing Bits and Drops: Stress-Adjusted Water Management for Data Centers",
  "summary": "arXiv:2607.22617v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data centers are critical to today's digital economy, but are also among the largest industrial consumers of freshwater. Beyond the sheer volume of water use, the environmental impact of data center water consumption varies significantly across locations and seasons, depending on local and regional water stress. However, prior research has largely focused on reducing total water use, overlooking that the same unit of water can have drastically diff",
  "authors": "Zahidur Talukder, Imtiaz Bin Rahim, Pranjol Sen Gupta, Shaolei Ren, Mohammad A. Islam",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "jobs-economy,environment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-28T04:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-28T05:10:12.325Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-cscy",
  "source_name": "arXiv cs.CY",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/recent",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13784",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.22617",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}