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The National Drought Group (NDG), an environmental organization in the UK, has that data centres are a strain on the country's water supplies. This is also a concern in many other countries. The group did not to what degree these facilities are to drought conditions in many parts of the UK. It is that the centres use up to 10 billion litres of water per year to their giant facilities. One water company that a large data centre can as much water as 50,000 households. Despite concerns from environmentalists, the UK is ahead to build many more data centres. Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner said they essential for economic growth.

The NDG has Britons to take measures to cut back on their water consumption. One such measure is to unwanted emails and large images. The group claims this will the demand for water. A government website suggested old emails and pictures "as data centres vast amounts of water to cool their systems". NDG chairperson Helen Wakeham said a simple everyday action such as up one's inbox and spam and trash folders will "really the collective effort to demand and help the health of our rivers and wildlife". However, it is likely that the water saved from people deleting files stored in the cloud merely a drop in the ocean.