{"id":1001457,"date":"2026-04-07T07:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T01:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001457"},"modified":"2026-04-07T07:31:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:01:32","slug":"investors-press-amazon-microsoft-google-on-water-power-use-in-us-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/07\/investors-press-amazon-microsoft-google-on-water-power-use-in-us-data-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"Investors press Amazon, Microsoft, Google on water, power use in US data centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet&#8217;s Google have each recently abandoned construction of multibillion-dollar data centers over community opposition and now the companies are coming under shareholder pressure over the environmental impact of their projects. <\/p>\n<p>More than a dozen investors are cranking up the heat on companies ahead of annual shareholder meetings this spring, seeking more data on the tech giants&#8217; water usage and conservation efforts as they seek to expand their computing power, according to interviews with Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet&#8217;s Google have each recently abandoned construction of multibillion-dollar data centers over community opposition and now the companies are coming under shareholder pressure over the environmental impact of their projects. More than a dozen investors are cranking up the heat on companies ahead of annual shareholder meetings this spring, seeking more data on the tech giants&#8217; water usage and conservation efforts as they seek to expand their computing power, according to interviews with Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}