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Data centers are massive projects that are an important tool to keep big tech running, but one of the major concerns is the resources required. The multi acre institutions require large amounts of electricity and water.

As a part of our Data, Dollars and Demand series, we obtained the Kansas City Water contracts between Meta and Google for their data centers.

The documents gave us a better idea of how much water the massive institutions could be using.

Meta's data center in the Northland could use up to 9.5 million gallons of water a day. The average household in Kansas City uses just under 100 gallons of water each day.

Data centers house tens of thousands of servers for the pictures you post on Facebook to the PDF you saved in the cloud. They also req

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