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Tango01 | 11 Sep 2023 9:05 p.m. PST |
…the World With AI "As artificial intelligence is increasingly developing and data centers are erected to further this tech, it's becoming clear that AI has a water usage problem.
Microsoft's latest sustainability report revealed that the software giant's water usage saw a tremendous spike between 2021 and 2022. In 2021, the company used up 4,772,890 cubic meters of water. In 2022 that went up to 6,399,415—which is around a 30 percent increase from one year to the next. That's almost 1.7 billion gallons of water in just one year, which is enough to fill more than 2,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools…"
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