US EditionThe Hidden Cost of Ai: Data Centers Raise the Local Temperature to 16.4 °C
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The accelerated growth of artificial intelligence (AI) no longer only concerns its energy consumption: it is now also changing the local climate. As an international study of scientists from the United Kingdom, Singapore, France, Italy and Hong Kong, revealed that AI data centers generate “heat islands” capable of significantly raising the temperature of the environment where they operate.IA causes “heat islands”: data centers raise temperature …
The impact of data centres on the local climate is beginning to be accurately measured. These facilities, built to rotate models of artificial intelligence, consume considerable amounts of energy. This consumption generates massive heat, permanently released to the nearby environment. A team from Cambridge University has just quantified this phenomenon worldwide. Its conclusions even surprise specialists in the field.
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