The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago says treated wastewater from its Calumet plant could be redirected to data centers — potentially reducing how much drinking water those ...

MILFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — Milford police Tuesday shared bodycam footage of officers rescuing two people from a car filling up with water during last week’s flash flooding. Police shared the video as a ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. The debate over AI's water consumption often overlooks the critical issue: peak daily demand ...

There are two competing schools of thought over just how water-intensive AI is. In one, the technology is horribly thirsty. Data centers will exacerbate droughts throughout the country and “drain the ...

Tech companies face a fundamental choice with no winning answer for keeping data centers cool. Artificial intelligence has a real heat problem. Cooling next-generation computer chips for AI requires ...

As Alabama communities weigh proposals for new data centers, concerns about water consumption have become a flashpoint. Yet another major water user often escapes scrutiny: golf courses. A comparison ...

Microsoft MSFT0.03%increase; up pointing triangle, Google and Amazon AMZN 0.82%increase; up pointing triangle are among the tech companies spending an estimated $1 trillion on AI infrastructure this ...

Data centers, in case you haven’t heard, have a water problem. As AI companies race to build the massive computing facilities needed to train and run powerful ...

Microsoft announced Wednesday that over the past two decades, it has become dramatically more efficient in its use of water to cool data centers, slashing its consumption rate by 90% compared to ...

Nvidia just announced a warm-water cooling system that it says can dramatically reduce the amount of water a data center uses — eliminating “pretty much all water usage” inside the data center, ...

Policies requiring efficient toilets, showerheads, and appliances have driven down indoor water use. Per person use indoors for single-family homes is 38.5 gallons a day, according to the study. The ...

If you hang out in any even vaguely AI-skeptical parts of the Internet, you’ve probably stumbled on plenty of memes and posts premised on data centers’ insatiable thirst for water to power evaporative ...