Data Centers and Water: Hype vs. Reality
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Data Centers and Water: Hype vs. Reality
The full story behind the headlines — why AI infrastructure's thirst for water is rising fast, and what the industry is doing to slow it down
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Category: Business
- Water Scarcity
- Water Supply
- Data Management
- Produced Water
- Water Security
- Energy
- Data Center Management
- Water
- Water Conservation
- Data & Analysis
- water, wastewater, reclaimed water, water resources planning
- Water Security
- Water Treatment Enterprise Information Data Management
- Water Conservation
- Water Diplomacy
- Groundwater Data Scientist
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can you please suggest a proper APA citation for this article? Thanks.
Published by Kathleen Rugel, Independent scholar Gettingtowater.com
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We have updated the document-
Reference list entry:
AquaSPE. (2026, July). Data centers and water: Hype vs. reality [Special report]. TheWaterNetwork.com. [URL if published online]
In-text citations:
Parenthetical: (AquaSPE, 2026)
Narrative: AquaSPE (2026)
A couple of notes:
Since no individual author is credited, the corporate/organizational author (AquaSPE, distributed via TheWaterNetwork.com) stands in as author, per APA's group-author convention. I will add a specific date rather than just "July 2026,".
The disclaimer inside the document discloses Claude AI assistance in research and drafting. APA doesn't require citing the AI tool as a co-author when an organization takes editorial responsibility for the final content (this differs from citing AI-generated text used verbatim) — the existing "researched and drafted with the assistance of Claude AI" disclaimer already covers that disclosure, so no separate AI citation is needed in the reference list.
Published by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network