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Much of the nation’s data center construction boom is taking place in arid states, including California, Arizona and Texas, where strains on water have been mounting amid dry conditions and rising temperatures.

Today, Mars is a cold and arid desert.

The draining of groundwater, often invisible, hides how much arid regions are drawing down their reserve accounts, he said.

"Private industries are being prioritised in these arid zones," she says.

Russia has dangled the possibility of building a nuclear power plant in uranium-rich Niger - a vast, arid state on the edge of the Sahara desert that has to import most of its electricity.