AI and California Water

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Every time you use ChatGPT, or any other AI data centers use electricity.. a lot of electricity to make the Internet run. That electricity generation needs to be cooled and so they use water for that you guessed it a lot of water. Which is a scarce resource in California. Nina Kremer looks at possible problems with the data centers.

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