EPA Chief Details Plan to Reuse Water to Power Data Centers

The EPA on Thursday relaunched a project meant to encourage the reuse of water in the booming AI data center industry.

The Water Reuse Action Plan 2.0 is centered around three goals: accelerating American prosperity, strengthening water resources, and enhancing cooperative federalism, Lee Zeldin, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, said at an event at agency headquarters in Washington, DC.

The plan could address a problem that has been dogging the White House’s ambitions. On one hand, the Trump administration wants to speed up the AI sector to drive job growth and dominate the sector. But on the other hand, ...