Nebraska news station 10/11 discovered that Google improperly redacted its data center's water and electricity usage from an annual report filed with the state's Department of Water, Energy, and Environment. By highlighting and copying the redacted text boxes, they revealed Agate LLC (Lincoln data center) uses 52.65 megawatts of peak electricity and 13 million gallons of water annually. The outlet has filed a public records request to access the full unredacted data from all three Google data centers in the state.
Background
Nebraska requires annual reporting of water and electricity usage from data centers, but state statutes allow certain information to be withheld as trade secrets. This has sparked public interest in transparency around data center resource consumption.
- Source
- hackernews
- Published
- Oct 5, 2026 at 03:37 AM
- Score
- 5.0 / 10