Driven by the artificial intelligence frenzy, Microsoft is internally projecting that water use at its data centers will more ...

Across the world, water scarcity is emerging as one of the most pressing challenges of the 21st century. Climate change is pushing rivers and aquifers into unprecedented extremes, droughts and floods ...

As the tech industry has grown, so too have data centers. Data centers are enormous buildings filled with hundreds of thousands of computers that store cloud data and power artificial intelligence. To ...

Water demands for data centers should include consideration of regional clusters, putting more pressure on water needed for cooling.

WASHINGTON — Story from The Conversation by Peyton McCauley, Water Policy Specialist, Sea Grant UW Water Science-Policy Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Melissa Scanlan, Professor and ...

Each time you ask an AI chatbot to summarize a lengthy legal document or conjure up a cartoon squirrel wearing glasses, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: ...

An office building inside the Googleplex headquarters in Mountain View, California, in February. Google is considering a data center project in Kansas City, North, that involves an initial investment ...

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