Katarina Zimmer
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- Sep 6, 2026
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AI's water use is a problem, but shifting from electricity to solar or wind power could help (opens the original)
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"Protect our water," "Water for people not AI," "Don't mess with our water," declare protest signs from Texas to New Mexico to Arizona. Angered by water use, energy consumption and pollution, locals are increasingly protesting the rapid expansion of data centers in the United States as tech companies work to rapidly expand capacity for AI. Many data centers rely at least partly on water to absorb heat from air or surfaces, and then cause cooling as it evaporates, just like sweating keeps our bod
Using AI has an environmental impact — here are 4 ways you can minimize it (opens the original)
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Inside the world’s newest data centers, energy-guzzling computations proceed round the clock as AI chatbots and other generative AI tools tackle tasks from the frivolous to the weighty: assembling imagery for social media, proffering relationship advice, analyzing medical images to diagnose cancer, creating code for developers or detecting financial scams for banks. Just as the popularity of AI tools has skyrocketed in recent years, so have the associated environmental costs. Data centers now co
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