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AI data centers used a world’s supply of bottled water in just one year (www.independent.co.uk)
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In a study published on Monday by the peer-reviewed journal Patterns, data scientist Alex de Vries-Gao estimated the carbon emissions from electricity used by AI at between 33 million and 80 million metric tons.

That higher figure would put it above last year's totals for Chile (78m tons), Czechia (78m tons), Romania (71m tons), and New York City (48m tons, including both CO2 and other greenhouse gases).

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[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 23 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Where does the water go?

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Evaporated for cooling I'm guessing

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/techland/the-hidden-bottleneck-of-ai-data-centers-water

There's closed loop and immersion (paraphrasing the article), so it's just a guess.

[–] flango@lemmy.eco.br 33 points 3 days ago

Not only that, datacenters pollute water with pfas (forever chemicals), making it unsafe to drink.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/04/pfas-pollution-data-centers-ai

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