Utah

'Utah data center water usage' became a breakout search for one reason: the Great Salt Lake. Every gallon evaporated in the Salt Lake and Utah valleys is a gallon that doesn't reach a lake already at historic lows, which puts even modest campuses inside the state's defining environmental story.

The anchors are the NSA's Bluffdale facility (whose ~1.7 million gallons/day design draw made it the original data-center-water controversy a decade before chatbots) and Meta's Eagle Mountain campus, which Meta pairs with funded water-restoration projects in the basin.

Utah's restoration-credit approach (operators funding measured returns to the lake) is the most concrete water-offset experiment in the industry; whether the measured returns match the consumptive draws is the open question local journalism keeps auditing.