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Microsoft's Water Use Revealed Amid Environmental Concerns

10/23/2025

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Microsoft’s Mount Pleasant data center will use over eight million gallons of water annually.
Microsoft sought to classify water usage data as trade secrets, but courts blocked the move.
The case signals a broader trend of Microsoft and Amazon obscuring environmental impacts with NDAs.
In Virginia, Dominion Energy lobbies to profit from the data center boom, complicating resource management.

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Story summary

Microsoft’s Mount Pleasant data center will use over eight million gallons of water annually.
Microsoft sought to classify water usage data as trade secrets, but courts blocked the move.
The case signals a broader trend of Microsoft and Amazon obscuring environmental impacts with NDAs.
In Virginia, Dominion Energy lobbies to profit from the data center boom, complicating resource management.