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Warnock Calls for Community Protections from Data Centers
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Fusion42 · 24 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
US Senator Raphael Warnock calls on the EPA to issue guidance protecting local water supplies as data centre construction explodes in Georgia; OpenAI's planned $20 billion Project Camellia campus near Savannah has triggered concerns about water consumption that could reach 80-150 billion gallons annually by 2030.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Cloud Infrastructure and AI Infrastructure.
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If you're building data centres for AI, EPA guidance on water is coming—and rural communities now have a senator forcing the issue before your next site acquisition. The cost of water rights and local negotiation just went from a local problem to a federal one.
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