AI development is increasing water consumption and contributing to the global water crisis

The Tech Report: Recent reports suggest that the drastic AI growth is coming at the cost of inflating the water crisis. An unfathomable amount of water (gallons and gallons of it) is used to cool high-performing hardware that powers AI systems globally. The bigger concern is that a lot of this water is coming from areas with lower levels of freshwater.

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