A.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 supply
fortune.com
“They were pretty secretive on what they’re doing out there,” says a former mayor about Microsoft’s data center projects.
      • Greyscale@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Well ain’t that the dumbest shit ever. Some of the worlds cleanest water being fed to a machine to hallucinate code that doesn’t work while water scarcity starts to come home to roost.