Las grandes tecnológicas alertan de que, si la gente sigue bebiendo agua a este ritmo, nos quedaremos sin inteligencia artificial

 

https://www.elmundotoday.com/2026/01/las-grandes-tecnologicas-alertan-de-que-si-la-gente-sigue-bebiendo-agua-a-este-ritmo-nos-quedaremos-sin-inteligencia-artificial/

Business Insider investigated the footprint of 1k+ #datacenters to see real-life consequences of #ai. #tech"

 

Making AI Less 'Thirsty'

 As acknowledged in Google's sustainability report9 and the recent U.S. datacenter energy report,25 the expansion of AI products and services is a key driver of the rapid increase in datacenter water consumption. Even excluding the water usage in leased third-party colocation facilities, one technology company's self-owned datacenters alone directly withdrew 29 billion liters and consumed (that is, evaporated) more than 23 billion liters of freshwater for onsite cooling in 2023, nearly 80% of which was potable water.9,a This amount of annual water consumption even rivals that of a major household-name beverage company.21 Importantly, the company's datacenter water consumption increased by 

$\sim$20% from 2021 to 2022 and by $\sim$17% from 2022 to 2023,9 and another technology company's datacenter water consumption saw $\sim$34% and $\sim$22% increases over the same periods, respectively.18 Furthermore, according to the recent U.S. datacenter energy report, the total annual onsite water consumption by U.S. datacenters in 2028 could double or even quadruple the 2023 level, reaching approximately 150–280 billion liters and further stressing the water infrastructures.25

https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3724499

Almenys 300 morts en un nou esfondrament d'una mina de coltan a l'est del Congo

https://www.3cat.cat/3catinfo/almenys-300-morts-en-un-nou-esfondrament-duna-mina-de-coltan-a-lest-del-congo/noticia/3398472/

Big Tech’s New Headache: Data Centre Activism Flourishes Across the World

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2022/11/02/big-techs-new-headache-data-centre-activism-flourishes-across-the-world/

ChatGPT vs Claude AI: Carbon Footprints, Pentagon Deal, and Energy Impact

https://carboncredits.com/chatgpt-vs-claude-ai-carbon-footprints-pentagon-deal-and-energy-impact/#:~:text=Training%20is%20a%20one%E2%80%91time,of%20metric%20tons%20of%20CO%E2%82%82.

AI Hardware Sustainability: The Environmental Cost of GPUs and TPUs

https://aienergycalculator.com/ai-hardware-environmental-impact-sustainability/#:~:text=Manufacturing%20a%20single%20high%2Dend,carbon%20footprint%20alone%20is%20substantial.