Center for Water Policy Director, Professor, and Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair Melissa Scanlan contributed to an E&E News article examining the water and sewer infrastructure needs of AI-data centers and how consumers feel the cost of expanding that infrastructure. “There is a real need to understand the impact on …
Center for Water Policy Director, Professor, and Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair Melissa Scanlan appears in an in-depth data center piece with a short video released by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The piece explores the reasons for–and impacts of–the uptick …
Center for Water Policy Director, Professor, and Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair Melissa Scanlan appears in a short video released by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel from their town hall event in February. The 38-second clip discusses myths about closed-loop data centers. Check it out …
Center for Water Policy Director, Professor, and Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair Melissa Scanlan was featured in a Crain’s Chicago Business article titled “AI’s expanding footprint comes with a big thirst for water.” Professor Scanlan spoke about AI-data center demands on water and …
Center for Water Policy Director, Professor, and Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair Melissa Scanlan appeared in a Grist article titled “The Great Lakes are ideal for wind energy. So where is it?” In the piece, Professor Scanlan discusses the untapped potential of this energy source. Unlike the East …
Center for Water Policy Director, Professor, and Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair Melissa Scanlan appeared in a DW Planet A video on “Why people are throwing AI data centers into the ocean.” In the video’s exploration of various tech experiments to reduce the water and energy demands of data centers, Professor …
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The Center for Water Policy was mentioned in a Wisconsin Watch story about communities facing scrutiny after entering into non-disclosure agreements with members of the data center industry. The article highlighted the Center’s new AI-data center legislative model, including recommendations to increase transparency like requiring disclosures on water and electricity use. Read …
Water Policy Specialist and Sea Grant UW Water Science-Policy Fellow Emilie Washer was featured in a “Circle of Blue” article discussing the Center’s newest AI-Data Center Legislative Model. As noted in our model and in the Circle of Blue piece, the Great Lakes region has seen an …
Center for Water Policy Director, Professor, and Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair Melissa Scanlan appeared in WBEZ Chicago’s Curious City story about Great Lakes offshore wind. In the piece, Professor Scanlan talks about how the Great Lakes states have jurisdiction …
