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'Thirsty' ChatGPT uses four times more water than previously thought
The massive computer clusters powering artificial intelligence consume vast quantities to answer the world’s queries, but how is Big Tech redressing the balance?
All of these companies have schemes to put water back into nature using projects that help river flow, capture rainwater, recharge aquifers and modify dams. Google DeepMind has developed an AI system that helped the company reduce its energy consumption for cooling centres by 40 per cent, in part by routing traffic more efficiently. Aaron Binkley, vice-president of sustainability at Digital Realty, said: “Energy usage is the primary metric most people associate with data centre environmental impacts, but behind that is water.
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