Water & thermal resource supply
The consumable constraint on siting
Large AI datacenters consume millions of gallons of water per day for cooling, making water rights and local grid interconnect—not just chips—the binding constraint on where clusters can be built. Water and interconnect queues are increasingly the true siting chokepoint in the US Southwest and beyond.
How it fits the stack
Water & thermal resource supply with what it depends on (above) and what it feeds (below). The figure renders as a crawlable diagram and upgrades to an interactive 3D graph as it scrolls into view.
Water & thermal resource supply in the AI stack. Water & thermal resource supply with its immediate upstream dependencies (top) and downstream dependents (bottom) in the AI value chain. Hover a node in 3D, or read the full relationships below.
Graph data (text) — 2 entities, 1 relationships
- CoreWeave Data Centers —depends on→ Water & thermal resource supply