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How Smart Towns Make Data Centers Pay (w. Ralph Exton - WEF & Water AI Nexus Center of Excellence)
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Is Data Center Water Use a Threat to Your Town, or the Money Its Water System Has Been Waiting For? Data center water use has become one of the loudest arguments about AI, from the one-bottle-per-prompt claim to US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick arguing both sides on The Daily Show. So I looked into where that water goes, what the tech giants' promises are worth, and how smart towns make the AI boom pay for better water systems. With insights from Ralph Exton, Executive Director of the Water Environment...
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Your mom asks Chad GPT what she can make with the three things left in her fridge and somewhere on the internet somebody is pissed that she just wasted a bottle of drinking water. Meanwhile, your feed is filling up with AI videos nobody asks for and businesses are trying to put AI in every possible process,
including those same fridges, for some reason. Now, if you try to find out how much water any of this actually uses, the answers get rapidly very confusing. There's the one-bottle-per-prompt figure, some enormous annual totals, and other claims
that AI hardly uses any water. But thankfully, global leaders help us cut through the fog. Or do they? But what about how AI uses all our electricity and water resources?
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