The company has invested $30 million into projects intended to address Oklahoma’s water shortage.
Google is investing $30 million into water conservation in Oklahoma while simultaneously planning to build a 506-acre data center in Tusla. $1.5 million of Google’s allocated funds will go towards removing water-thirsty cedar trees along approximately 2,000 acres of the Arkansas River, which will save an estimated 100 million gallons of water.
The company is also investing $800,000 into a project to conserve 81 million gallons of water in the panhandle’s aquifer, Emma Burch writes for Koco News 5. Google said it expects to announce additional water conservation projects over the next few years.
“Google’s data centers are significant water users. According to a report from the company, its large data center in Pryor used more than 1.1 billion gallons of water in a single year, which is five times the amount these conservation projects are expected to save,” Koco News 5 reports.
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