AI RESEARCH
From Accounting to Coordination: A Virtual Water-Aware Electricity-Computation-Water Nexus Framework for Data Center Dispatch
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2605.25854v1 Announce Type: new The expansion of data centers (DCs) drives a sustained increase in electricity demand and associated water withdrawals at generation sites. These withdrawals occur at generation sites and are virtually allocated to demand based on network power flows. Consequently, the actual water footprint of a specific load varies dynamically with generation dispatch and network conditions. Existing approaches typically rely on static statistical accounting to quantify these water footprints.