Center for Water Policy Director, Professor, and Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair Melissa Scanlan was featured in a recent Wisconsin Examiner article examining the rapid growth of large-scale data centers across Wisconsin and their implications for the state’s water and …
? Explore how the School of Freshwater Sciences has helped transform and continues to influence Milwaukee’s relationship with its harbor and the Great Lakes in the Center’s new short video. The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee’s School of Freshwater Sciences is an anchor in Milwaukee’s …
Center for Water Policy Director, Professor & Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair Melissa Scanlan was featured in a recent NPR article examining the rapid expansion of data centers across the United States and the accompanying environmental challenges. The article highlights …
As data centers continue to expand across Wisconsin, questions are growing about their impacts on our water, energy, and communities. On October 15, come to Saukville at Riveredge Nature Center from 6:30-8:30pm, and join experts from Midwest Environmental Advocates and …
Center for Water Policy Director, Professor & Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair Melissa Scanlan was featured in a LancasterOnline article discussing data centers’ water use. She noted that the industry’s rapid growth and reliance on confidentiality agreements often make it difficult …
Center for Water Policy Director, Professor & Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair Melissa Scanlan was featured in a 620 WTMJ radio segment and news article talking about data centers. In it, she suggests ways to overcome fragmented information on the industry’s …
A new Chicago Tribune article highlights how the rapid growth of data centers across the Great Lakes region could strain already finite water resources. Data centers use enormous volumes of water to keep servers cool, and the rise of artificial …
The Center for Water Policy is excited to welcome Anna Watson and Emilie Washer, who make up the Center’s fifth cohort of postdoctoral water policy specialists through the Sea Grant UW Water Science-Policy Fellows Program. Will Matuska also joins the …
CWP Water Policy Scholar (2024-2025) and affiliated faculty at the School of Freshwater Sciences James Wasley wrote an opinion piece in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about celebrating the final stages of a 50-year process to restore Milwaukee’s rivers. In …
In a recent article for The Conversation, Peyton McCauley, Water Policy Specialist, and Professor Melissa Scanlan, Director, of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Center for Water Policy examined the growing water demands of data centers driven by artificial intelligence, and why transparency and …
