As data center demand soars, Amazon expands the use of wastewater to cool its U.S. data centers and curb its use of drinking water.

The return seems more apparent for rival Amazon, with TD Cowen noting that the company may have won an unnamed 1GW+ customer "for which it would need to procure capacity quickly." However, executives at the company have still expressed dissatisfaction with colocation costs and a preference for self-builds.

This 7.2 million-square-foot data center campus would be among the largest in the region. It's the third such site that AWS has proposed in Louisa County's technology overlay district.