Center for Water Policy director featured on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel data centers panel

Three women are on a stage talking to each other with a digital presentation behind them.
Melissa Scanlan speaking with Caitlin Looby (middle) and Kristin Brey (right) from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel at the Town Hall panel on water use by AI-data centers.

Center for Water Policy Director, Professor, and Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair Melissa Scanlan was a featured expert on the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Town Hall February 23rd panel on water use by AI-data centers at Turner Hall Ballroom. Professor Scanlan highlighted that water demands include the water used to create electricity for the data centers and water used to cool them. She also emphasized the level of governance needed is at the scale where impacts are seen (state and regional). 

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