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ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, Ind.-- A new report from the Alliance for the Great Lakes is sounding the alarm bell that the Great Lakes region is not ready for the water demands of big industry, like data centers to power artificial intelligence.
In New Carlisle, groundwater from the Kankakee Aquifer is the town's drinking water source. It's also the source for local farmers' wells and irrigation systems. Now, it also supplies the Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center being built.
Can the aquifer sustain all this pressure, and how can we maintain its supply? These are the issues addressed in that report, and on Friday, ABC57's Annie Kate spoke with the author, Helena Volzer, senior so