He added that it’s “fair” to be concerned about “the energy consumption — not per query, but in total, because the world is now using so much AI.” In his view, this means the world needs to “move ...

Small, everyday actions to minimize water use add up the more people do them. By Anna Diamond Michael Kimmelman’s recent story on Los Angeles’s water needs included a surprising fact: The city has ...

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Companies that run data centers are facing increasing scrutiny for guzzling water in the dry western U.S. as artificial intelligence fuels a boom in the industry. California legislators passed a bill ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have tracked data centers’ growing water footprint in California. He ...

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This diagram illustrates the domino-effect feedback between urban water management and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). Machine learning models quantify the ...

Mason Mayor Russell Whipple wants to know what data centers could mean for the water supply of his Ingham County city of about 8,000. Mason is not one of the 15-plus communities in Michigan that have ...