AI Cooling Demands Push Data Centers into Deep Water

Technology companies that develop powerful artificial intelligence (AI) often use water to cool their servers and generate energy in their data centers. Although it is still complex to calculate the impact of water consumption on these facilities, there is a debate about whether their use is efficient or control measures should be established. A data processing center is a facility that centralizes a company’s technological infrastructure (such …

WACC | Big Tech’s water grab

Water and digital technologies – we can’t live without them. But while people in many parts of the world are running short of water, digital technologies are consuming more and more. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google operate data centres that take vast amounts of water from some of the world’s driest areas. Now, according to a new investigation by SourceMaterial and The Guardian newspaper, they “plan to increase the number of data centres they opera…

AI Cooling Demands Push Data Centers into Deep Water

Water scarcity is a growing credit risk for data center operators, particularly hyperscale providers supporting AI workloads, a new report indicates.