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Amazon agrees to pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that its data centers in Morrow County Oregon contributed to contaminating ground water with nitrate pollution in the agricultural community
Here’s what happens
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Amazon uses huge volumes of water to cool its data centers
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Because the data centers use water that has nitrates in it from the area, water evaporates during the cooling process
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What's left is highly concentrated nitrate water
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That highly concentrated nitrate water then goes back out over the farmland, seeping back into the groundwater water
Now imagine this nationwide on a massive scale due to thousands of data centers being built
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