UPDATE: Improper redaction reveals Lincoln’s Google Data Center water and electricity usage
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Nebraska data centers are required to turn in an annual report to Nebraska’s Department of Water, Energy, and Environment, but some state statutes are preventing the public from seeing just how much electricity and water data centers are using.
  • blueworld@piefed.worldEnglish
    11·
    3 hours ago

    interesting is that they are getting over 100 million in refunds, while using so much electricity and water which the state is essentially subsidizing.

    Agate LLC reports expecting a refund of $55,822,472 from 2025 taxes. Fireball LLC is expecting a refund of $39,171,573.39 from 2025 taxes. Westwood Solutions LLC, the Google-owned data center in Omaha, is expecting a refund of $22,558,881 from 2025 taxes.

  • monketman82@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    5 hours ago

    Agate LLC is reporting 52.65 megawatts of electricity during peak electrical demand and 13.299 megagallons of water between cooling towers, evaporative systems and site operations in the last year.

    That totals out to 13 million gallons of water.