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AI to double data centre power and water consumption by 2030, UN researchers say
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“The public debate still often treats AI as software, but AI is also physical infrastructure: data centres, electricity generation, cooling systems, transmission networks, chips, minerals, land and water,” said Kaveh Madani, the institute’s director and the report’s lead author.
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