Artificial Intelligence: Big Tech’s Big Threat to Our Water and Climate

Artificial Intelligence: Big Tech’s Big Threat to Our Water and Climate

Popular sci-fi has long-imagined a future artificial intelligence (AI) gaining consciousness and turning against humankind. However, AI poses huge risks right now, as it threatens our water supplies, our climate goals, and our livable future. Training and using AI requires huge amounts of computing power in data centers (warehouses filled with huge computers called servers), which in turn need a lot of energy to run and water for cooling. These …

Locals don't necessarily have water, but that doesn't bother the giant corporations.

Amazon, Google and Microsoft use tons of water in the already driest regions of the worldAmazon, Google and Microsoft are increasing the number of data centers in regions already suffering from water shortages. Companies are planning expand their activities, which may affect the local population.

New Data Center by Big Tech Uses Water from the World's Driest Regions

Amazon, Microsoft, and Google run data centers in extremely dry areas worldwide, using significant amounts of water and planning to build more. As Donald Trump shows his support for them, these tech giants are set to establish hundreds of data centers globally and in the US, impacting regions already facing water scarcity. The founder of [...] Source The post New Data Center by Big Tech Uses Water from the World’s Driest Regions appeared first o…

Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas

Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continentsAmazon, Microsoft and Google are operating datacentres that use vast amounts of water in some of the world’s driest areas and are building many more, an investigation by SourceMaterial and the Guardian has found.With Donald Trump pledging to support them, the three technology giants are planning hundreds of datacentres in the US and across the globe, wi…

Big Tech Data Centers Thirst for Water in Arid Regions

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