Amazon Web Services is changing course on how a King George County data center project will get its water after an application to renew a groundwater permit allowing withdrawals of up to 6.4 million gallons annually from the Potomac aquifer raised concerns.
The tech giant is set to construct a major data center campus in the county at the Birchwood Drive tech campus that could host more than a dozen data centers across the 869-acre property. The county is located across the Potomac from Charles County, Md.
While some of the project is currently tied up in court proceedings, an application to renew a water permit for the tech campus led Sen. Richard Stuart (R-King George) to urge the Department of Environmental Quality to deny the application.
The permit would have allowed the facility to withdraw water from the aquifer that would not be used for cooling the data centers, but rather for employee use, grounds management and other purposes.
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