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The Dalles’ Mayor Called OPB’s Data Center Story Inaccurate — Here Are the Facts

By April Ehrlich  |  Jan. 23, 2026  |  Oregon Public Broadcasting Last week, OPB published an investigation into The Dalles’ efforts to expand its water reservoir in the Mount Hood National Forest at the same time that Google expands its footprint in the north-central Oregon city. OPB’s reporting covered two agreements signed between The Dalles […]

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As Google Water Demands Grow, The Dalles Aims to Pull More Water from the Mount Hood National Forest

By April Ehrlich  |  Jan. 15, 2026  |  Oregon Public Broadcasting The Dalles is trying to expand its water reservoir — and it’s turning to Congress in a quest to acquire part of the Mount Hood National Forest to do so. That’s prompting concerns from environmental groups and local residents. They’re worried both about the

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When the People’s Water Vanishes

By Alec del Pino Gil-Casares  |  Dec. 26, 2025 |  Harvard Political Review While prompting your AI chatbot does not directly use water, many data centers rely on evaporative cooling to keep their computing chips, in charge of processing, manipulating, and transforming data, at a functioning temperature, consuming millions of gallons of potable water every day.

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We Now Know How Much Water Google’s Oregon Data Centers Use After The Dalles Drops Lawsuit Against Journalists

By Sebastian Moss  |  Dec. 19, 2022  |  Data Center Dynamics The data centers use more than a quarter of The Dalles city, and consumption is rising. The Dalles has dropped its lawsuit against The Oregonian, which filed a public records request to see the water deal it signed with Google. That means that how

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Google’s Water Use Soaring in the Dalles, Records Show, with Two More Data Centers to Come

By Mike Rogoway  |  Dec. 18, 2022  |  The Oregonian Google’s water use in The Dalles has nearly tripled in the past five years, and the company’s data centers now consume more than a quarter of all the water used in the city. That’s according to records released this week after the city settled a

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