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The Carbon Cost of Cloud: Microsoft and Google's Cooling Water Problem
In this episode of The Cloud Business Podcast, Lucas and Luna dive into a specific environmental challenge facing the three major cloud providers: water consumption for data center cooling. Lucas opens with a concrete number from Microsoft's 2025 sustainability report — 2.4 billion liters of water consumed in fiscal 2025, up 34% year-over-year. The conversation explores where that water goes, how Google offsets its consumption in water-stressed regions, and why AWS is quieter on the metric. Luna asks whether water is the new carbon for cloud vendors, and Lucas explains the engineering…
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