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WRI Aqueduct 4.0
13 baseline water-risk indicators per sub-basin (HydroBASINS level 6), province and aquifer, and stress projections for 2030, 2050 and 2080. Collected: baseline annual water stress (withdrawals as a share of renewable supply: category, 0-5 score and ratio) of the sub-basin of every data center and site (pipeline/spatial/water-stress.mjs) (Global). Rare Context republishes 18,815 facts from WRI Aqueduct 4.0 under CC BY 4.0, linked to owners and places.
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| Publisher's page | https://www.wri.org/data/aqueduct-global-maps-40-data |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Credit | Kuzma, S., M.F.P. Bierkens, S. Lakshman, T. Luo, L. Saccoccia, E. H. Sutanudjaja, and R. Van Beek. 2023. Aqueduct 4.0: Updated Decision-Relevant Global Water Risk Indicators. Technical Note. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute. doi.org/10.46830/writn.23.00061 |
| Licence terms | CC BY 4.0, verified 2026-10-25: WRI's data catalogue lists the dataset (datasets.wri.org/dataset/aqueduct-global-maps-40-data) under license_id cc-by, Creative Commons Attribution; the data page names the licence Creative Commons. Cite as "Kuzma, S., M.F.P. Bierkens, S. Lakshman, T. Luo, L. Saccoccia, E. H. Sutanudjaja, and R. Van Beek. 2023. Aqueduct 4.0: Updated Decision-Relevant Global Water Risk Indicators. Technical Note. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute. doi.org/10.46830/writn.23.00061" |
| Coverage | Global |
| Access | Bulk ZIP (files.wri.org/aqueduct/aqueduct-4-0-water-risk-data.zip, 260 MB): a file geodatabase with the baseline_annual layer, and CSVs; plain GET, no account. A fixed release (data of 2023-07-05) |
| Refresh | Annual |
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Public claims as JSON Lines, one record per line. Listed claims carry no value. Every source's public claims together, as CSV, are in the open data download.
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- Data centers2,464
Data centers
- Anthropic-Amazon New Carlisle1,037 MW
- Colossus 2946 MW
- Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta636 MW
- DayOne Nusajaya473 MW
- Meta Prometheus471 MW
- DayOne Kempas422 MW
- OpenAI Stargate Abilene421 MW
- Microsoft Fairwater Wisconsin369 MW
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- Kuzma, S., M.F.P. Bierkens, S. Lakshman, T. Luo, L. Saccoccia, E. H. Sutanudjaja, and R. Van Beek. 2023. Aqueduct 4.0: Updated Decision-Relevant Global Water Risk Indicators. Technical Note. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute. doi.org/10.46830/writn.23.00061. WRI Aqueduct 4.0, CC BY 4.0.