floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoA.I. tools fueled a 34% spike in Microsoft’s water consumption, and one city with its data centers is concerned about the effect on residential supplyfortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up1427arrow-down116cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.orgmicrosoft@lemdro.id
arrow-up1411arrow-down1external-linkA.I. tools fueled a 34% spike in Microsoft’s water consumption, and one city with its data centers is concerned about the effect on residential supplyfortune.comfloofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square50fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.orgmicrosoft@lemdro.id
minus-squarebhmnscmm@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down4·edit-210 months agoI live here and people are getting priority over AI? Iowa isn’t like many states where there is water scarcity. This cooling water isn’t even being consumed. It’s used for cooling and returned to the waste water system.
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minus-squarebhmnscmm@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down2·10 months agoPretty much, unfortunately. Nobody wants to talk about all the wind energy used to run these data centers either, because that won’t generate any outrage.
minus-squarestranger@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·10 months agoWe live in a society
I live here and people are getting priority over AI?
Iowa isn’t like many states where there is water scarcity. This cooling water isn’t even being consumed. It’s used for cooling and returned to the waste water system.
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Pretty much, unfortunately.
Nobody wants to talk about all the wind energy used to run these data centers either, because that won’t generate any outrage.
We live in a society