Failed Redaction Exposes Google Data Center Usage — SkimNews

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- An improperly redacted document publicly revealed water and electricity usage figures for a Google data center that were intended to be kept confidential
- The Google data center in Lincoln, Nebraska is the facility whose resource usage data was exposed by the failed redaction
Why it matters: Communities hosting large data centers have been pressing for transparency on water and electricity consumption, and a redaction failure hands the public concrete usage figures the operator meant to withhold. For Lincoln residents and local officials, the leak transforms an abstract debate over resource use into one with hard numbers attached.
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