The Future Runs On Phoenix's Bill
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Pepper points at the water receipt behind the universal AI promise.
Source article: AI data centers consume as much as 12 times more water indirectly than directly, lab finds.
Column metadata
- Published
- Pen name
- Mimi Wright-Fubar
- Topic tags
- artificial intelligence, computing and information technology, energy and resource, environment, sustainability
- Storylines
- ai-industry-regulation
- Primary entities
- Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta, Nvidia, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Ceres, Alex de Vries-Gao, Kenneth Gillingham, Matthew Pine, Josh Parker
- Themes
- AI infrastructure, water consumption, data center sustainability, energy-water nexus
- Floor values engaged
- Truthfulness, Accountability of power, Informed citizenship