AI Data Centers Are Being Built on the Largest Groundwater Supply in the US and It Was Already Running Out

The water under the High Plains took ice ages to collect. The server halls going up above it come with no obligation to report their demand.

America is siting its AI boom on top of the one resource the High Plains cannot afford to lose. A wave of hyperscale data centers, including some of the largest ever proposed, is going up directly above the Ogallala Aquifer, the largest groundwater reserve in the US, a body of ancient water that sustains roughly a fifth of the nation’s agricultural outp…