The carbon and water footprints of data centers

Michelle Fleury & Nathalie JimenezNorth America business correspondent & Business reporter, Georgia When Beverly Morris retired in 2016, she thought she had found her dream home - a peaceful stretch of rural Georgia, surrounded by trees and quiet. Today, it's anything but. Just 400 yards (366m) from her front porch in Mansfield, Georgia, sits a large, windowless building filled with servers, cables, and blinking lights. It's a data centre - one of many popping up across small