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The Gulf’s Trillion-Dollar AI Dream Has A Water Problem
August 6th, 2025
Via Rest of World, a look at how tech giants are pouring oil riches into Middle East data centers as water scarcity threatens digital ambitions: The UAE and Saudi Arabia are rapidly expanding their AI infrastructure, attracting tech giants like OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft. Data centers powering AI in the Gulf are projected to consume […]
Read more »Data and Drought: The U.S. West’s Data Centers Suck Water and Power
August 1st, 2025
Via High Country News, a report on how – from simple searches to chatGPT – the big digital buildup in the U.S. west threatens the grid and water supplies: This May, STaX Capital Partners applied for a permit to install turbines fueled by methane from oil wells on Alaska’s North Slope. The temporary facilities would […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: China’s Super Dam – An Ecological and Geopolitical Time Bomb
August 1st, 2025
Via Stagecoach and Statecraft, commentary on how China’s super-dam is an ecological and geopolitical time bomb: China has built more dams than any other country and more large dams than the rest of the world combined. This month, it officially acknowledged construction of the biggest dam ever conceived in human history — although satellite imagery suggests the groundwork […]
Read more »Water Wars: A Historic Agreement Between Mexico and US is Ramping up Border Tension
July 31st, 2025
Via The Conversation, a look at how a historic water sharing agreement between Mexico and US is ramping up border tension: As climate change drives rising temperatures and changes in rainfall, Mexico and the US are in the middle of a conflict over water, putting an additional strain on their relationship. Partly due to constant droughts, Mexico […]
Read more »What Is Behind Gwadar’s Continued Water Woes?
July 28th, 2025
Via The Diplomat, a look at how Pakistan’s thirsty port city is once again fighting for water, with no permanent solution in sight: In Gwadar, Pakistan’s multimillion-dollar port city, hundreds of women and children have been protesting water shortages since early June. They bring empty buckets and containers to their protest site at the Fish […]
Read more »Himalayan Water Disputes Awaken the Tensions and Promises of the UN Watercourses Convention
July 28th, 2025
Via , an article on how the current Himalayan water disputes have awakened the tensions and promises of the UN Watercourses Convention: Across the world, nations sharing transboundary rivers face persistent geopolitical risks over water allocation and weaponization. Nowhere, however, are these risks more pressing than on the foothills of the Himalayas. Two recent and […]
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