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About 300 residents of Batam stormed a data centre compound in Nongsa Digital Park in October 2026, saying their taps had been dry for three months and that tanker water was dirty and smelly. After earlier protests, authorities told data centre firms to build their own desalination plants instead of relying on the island's reservoirs. Read the article

An ongoing legal battle between the developer of the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center and the park's water provider raises contested questions about whether existing water supplies can support the park's rapid data-center expansion, one of the world's largest and fastest-growing data center markets serving AI and cloud operators. The competing claims about water availability remain unresolved in litigation, and nothing has been finally determined… Read the article

In July 2026, a former AWS water sustainability program manager, Nathan Barasa Wangusi, sued Amazon in the Arlington County Circuit Court, alleging that AWS published false and misleading statements about water use at its Northern Virginia data centers and overstated progress toward its water-sustainability goals while withholding the full regional water use. AWS denies wrongdoing and says its reported water data has been independently assured… Read the article

Residents near the QTS data center construction site in Fayetteville, Georgia, together with Flint Riverkeeper, sent a 60-day notice of intent to sue over alleged stormwater problems, saying affected water showed coagulation, persistent bubbling and sludge material indicative of chemical additives. Read the article

Residents of a Fayetteville, Georgia, subdivision noticed unusually low water pressure. Investigators found two water hookups feeding the QTS data center site, one installed without the utility's knowledge and one not linked to a billing account. QTS paid about $150,000 in back charges for more than 29 million gallons; the county blamed a procedural mix-up and QTS called it a billing mistake. Read the article

Residents of Morrow County, Oregon, where Amazon runs several data centers, sued over worsening nitrate contamination of groundwater that reporting has linked to cancer and miscarriages. Amazon agreed to a $20.5 million class-action settlement funding private wells and water treatment, while denying that its data centers worsen the contamination. Read the article

In Querétaro, where Microsoft, Google and Amazon have invested in data centres, local communities report drought, lack of drinking water and power cuts. Reporting documents the shortages; how much the data centres contribute has not been established. Read the article

Indiana regulators cited an Amazon Web Services contractor for an accidental incursion into a wetland at the AWS data center project east of New Carlisle and sought penalties, while AWS continued pursuing plans to build on 9.7 more acres of wetland. Read the article

Beverly and Jeff Morris, whose home in Mansfield, Georgia is about 1,000 feet from Meta's $750 million data center, told the BBC and The New York Times that construction beginning in 2018 left sediment in their private well and their taps eventually ran dry, forcing them to haul water. Meta disputes the connection and says an independent groundwater study it commissioned found no adverse effect. Partially confirmed: the household damage is… Read the article

Residents near New Carlisle reported their household wells losing water while dewatering went on for construction of infrastructure serving Amazon data centers and the nearby GM/Samsung battery plant. The well failures are documented, but which project caused them had not been established. Read the article

Maryland Department of the Environment testing at the Quantum Loophole data center campus was prompted by public reports of water being discharged to Tuscarora Creek in violation of permit conditions and the site's environmental covenant, according to an MDE memo to the Frederick County Council. A later MDE inspector report documented drilling "frac-outs" discharging bentonite sediment into an unnamed tributary of the Monocacy River, and MDE… Read the article

Local newspaper Noordhollands Dagblad found that Microsoft's data center complex in Middenmeer used 84 million litres of drinking water in 2021, a year of severe water shortages, four to seven times the 12 to 20 million litres Microsoft and Hollands Kroon municipality had said it would need. Read the article

6 days ago · Four Georgia families are suing Facebook's parent company, Meta, saying construction of its data center contaminated their well water. Read the article

WCHS reports that water and mud from a data center construction site flooded Meadowlands Estates in Mason County, West Virginia, damaging residents’ property. According to WCHS, Nscale said its controls complied with the approved plan but unusually intense rainfall exceeded their capacity and broke a section of silt fencing. The company said it was covering cleanup and repair costs and reinforcing drainage and sediment controls. Read the article