WASHINGTON, April 30 -- Sen. Ron Wyden issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden today pressed the heads of Google, Apple, Meta and Amazon to answer questions about their companies' use of technologies -- including closed-loop systems -- that minimize groundwater withdrawals and local impacts to water from their data centers in Oregon.
"Most data centers use large amounts of energy to operate and large volumes of water to cool servers and prevent overheating. This water is usually drawn from surface, ground, municipal or reclaimed water sources," Wyden wrote in separate letters to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Meta Chair/CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Amazon President/CEO Andy Jassy. "Large data centers can cons...