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Data Center Water Use in Denali Borough, AK

Denali Borough, Alaska has 1 mapped data center facility.

Water pressure for new demandHow hard a large new water user, like a data center, would press on this county's water. It blends recent drinking-water compliance, drought, and existing industrial demand. Higher pressure means new demand competes harder with current uses. It is not a judgment about whether one should be built.

13/ 100

Low water pressure

Denali Borough has no health violations in the last 5 years, abnormally dry conditions, industrial water withdrawal data unavailable.

Mapped facilities
1
EPA + OpenStreetMap layers
Estimated power load
Not mapped
No capacity estimate
Permitted discharge
Not reported
Clean Water Act permit fields
DCWSI national rank
#2,809
of 318 scored counties

The operators

How many data centers are in Denali Borough?

1 facility is mapped to Denali Borough, Alaska across the EPA and OpenStreetMap layers. Counts reflect mapped footprint, not an operator's total fleet.

  • GDMS - GEP PROGRAM - ALASKA

    ANDERSON, AK

    EPA ECHO

Supply versus demand

How much water do Denali Borough data centers use?

Exact facility water draw is rarely public. As a screening proxy we compare the Clean Water Act permitted discharge mapped to these facilities against the county's entire industrial water baseline from the USGS 2020 series.

Denali Borough has no reported industrial water baseline in the USGS 2020 series, so a supply-versus-demand ratio cannot be drawn here.

Model a build

Can Denali Borough support more data centers?

On the water-pressure scale, Denali Borough sits at 13, below the national median, so new large-load demand has more slack here than in most counties. Size a hypothetical build to see the daily draw against the county industrial baseline.

Data Center Water Budget Calculator

Estimate daily water use for a hypothetical facility in Denali Borough.

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799K gallons/dayData Unavailable

County-level industrial water use data is unavailable for this county. Contact the county water authority directly for industrial withdrawal capacity.

Based on USGS 2020 water-use data and EPA-standard cooling intensity constants. Not a substitute for site-specific water rights analysis.

In context

How does Denali Borough compare nationally?

DCWSI build-out rank
#2,809
of 318 counties with a stress score
Water pressure vs median
-6
national median is 19 of 100
Share of mapped load
N/A
of 166.02 GW mapped nationally

Denali Borough is one of 330 US counties with mapped data centers. See the full ranking and the interactive map in the national atlas.

Facility data combines EPA ECHO, EPA Clean Water Act permits, OpenStreetMap, and the IM3 Open Source Data Center Atlas (DOE/PNNL), geocoded to county FIPS. Capacity and water baselines come from IM3 and USGS 2020 water-use data. These are county-level screening figures, not a facility-level water-use audit. Read the full methodology.

By Evan Brooks, Data EditorPublished Reviewed by Evan Brooks, Data Editor