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A new scientific study reports that cacti, often assumed to be resilient desert plants, are in fact severely threatened by intensifying drought conditions linked to global warming. Researchers found that many cactus species face significant physiological stress and risk under increasingly arid, hotter conditions.
A new analysis of seven states housing roughly half of America's data centers finds that generating the electricity these facilities consume uses far more water than cooling their servers does. Across Virginia, Texas, California, Illinois, Georgia, Ohio and Arizona, data center power demand draws about 3.4 trillion gallons of freshwater a year—about 12 times the combined annual water use of Los Angeles, Phoenix and Washington, D.C. Most of that electricity comes from water-dependent power plants, and two-thirds of them sit in regions already facing significant water stress or drought.