The former Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has taken up the issue, sarcastically posting at one point: “How dare the ...

Individual states are scrambling to regulate data centers' growing water demands as AI-driven growth outpaces federal ...

A rare bacteria was found in a Wyoming City's water supply and traced to wastewater coming from an under-construction Meta AI ...

If you hang out in any even vaguely AI-skeptical parts of the Internet, you’ve probably stumbled on plenty of memes and posts premised on data centers’ insatiable thirst for water to power evaporative ...

Americans across multiple states are being urged to conserve water as drought conditions intensify, reservoirs shrink, and utilities issue increasingly urgent warnings. At the same time, a different ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — As the world tries to curb human-caused climate change and not run dry of water, every online query is increasing our environmental footprint and exacerbating the problem. Artificial ...

Well before artificial intelligence, specifically generative AI, ran rampant throughout the tech industry, data centers ...

Researchers estimate that by 2028, total direct water use by U.S. data centers may increase to 32.8 billion gallons.

AI Data Centers Hidden Water Use Alarms Korea Indirect water consumption from power generation exceeds direct use, alarming ...

Australia’s data centre rush now rivals the mining boom. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman last week said Australia could become a “data centre capital of the world”. This would come at an ...

One argument often used to quell concerns about the rising energy and resource demand of data centres is that artificial intelligence (AI) models will need less in the future as they improve and ...