AI Data-Centre Water Evidence Explorer

Compare water withdrawal, estimated consumption, Water Consumption Impact and modelled off-site water across the tracker's ten-site seed. Every planning figure and unknown source remains visible as such.

Interactive front end over the frozen v0.5 dataset, published 8 August 2026. Water-source overlay checked 11 August 2026. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21318960. CC BY 4.0.

Interactive, not live metering. The source reports are periodic and non-standardised. The WCI uses total withdrawal regardless of source. Potable, reclaimed, surface-water and groundwater labels appear only where the source ledger supports them; all other rows remain unknown.

Reporting year

Metric

Evidence status

Water source

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Seed denominator10Fixed rows from the framework

Rows displayed0After filters

Metric available0For selected year

Source documented0Within displayed rows

Water Consumption Impact

Dimensionless peak consumptive draw as a share of host utility capacity.

One flat total can hide a change in source

Douglas County, Georgia is the current seed's explicit potable and reclaimed split. Total withdrawal changed little between the two reporting years, while the potable component increased and the reclaimed component declined.

This composition belongs beside WCI rather than inside it. The index measures total water burden against utility capacity; it does not grade the source.

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Evidence table

Site	Status	Water source	Cooling	Hydropower coupling	WCI

Method and guardrails

WCI. WCI = (average withdrawal / host utility capacity) × consumptive ratio × peaking factor. A value is a pressure index, not a volume and not a water-quality score.

Consumption. Average consumption is withdrawal multiplied by the consumptive ratio. Ratios for non-Google rows are assigned framework defaults rather than site measurements.

Off-site share. This is a grid-average modelled band calculated from cooling WUE and the regional electricity-water intensity band. It is not a metered per-site value.

Source labels. Unknown means the current ledger does not support a classification. A reservoir in the hydropower field describes an electricity coupling and is not evidence of the site's cooling-water source.

Denominator. The seed remains ten rows: six primary-verified rows, three planning rows and one framework-secondary row. Filters change the display, never the denominator.