Amazon is spending $20 million to support water conservation on the Colorado River — but still won't say how…
- Amazon pledges $20 million to a new Colorado River Basin Collaborative targeting $100 million in two years, with $32 million in commitments so far
- Amazon only reported one figure: 2.5 billion gallons of global data center withdrawals, but no basin, warehouse, historical, or power-generation water figures were made public
- AWS interestingly gives paying customers region-level water data, though it says its basin sites are air-cooled, shifting the onus of water use to power plants it does not currently account for
Amazon has committed $20 million to water conservation in the Colorado River Basin, seeding a new corporate effort it calls the Colorado River Basin Collaborative.
The goal is to raise $100 million within two years for leak repairs, canal lining, and precision irrigation along a river that serves roughly 40 million people and is about to absorb steep new federal delivery cuts.
Amazon's chief sustainability officer Kara Hurst tied it...
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