Water powers our lives. It feeds our crops, keeps factories running, generates electricity, and fills our taps. But until now ...

Driven by the artificial intelligence frenzy, Microsoft is internally projecting that water use at its data centers will more ...

The internet has caught on and has started to make fun of LLMs like ChatGPT for using a lot of water. How much water does the chatbot actually use?

As the tech industry has grown, so too have data centers. Data centers are enormous buildings filled with hundreds of thousands of computers that store cloud data and power artificial intelligence. To ...

Across the world, water scarcity is emerging as one of the most pressing challenges of the 21st century. Climate change is pushing rivers and aquifers into unprecedented extremes, droughts and floods ...

By 2050, nearly one-third of global GDP could be exposed to high water stress due to increased water demand exceeding supply ...

Each time you ask an AI chatbot to summarize a lengthy legal document or conjure up a cartoon squirrel wearing glasses, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: ...

WASHINGTON — Story from The Conversation by Peyton McCauley, Water Policy Specialist, Sea Grant UW Water Science-Policy Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Melissa Scanlan, Professor and ...