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Nvidia wants to cut data center water use, but that’s not the same as fixing AI’s water problem
Key takeaways
- The water consumption challenge for data centers is largely solved, Josh Parker, chief sustainability officer at Nvidia, recently told Axios.
- As long as AI data centers run on fossil fuels — a choice tech companies are increasingly making — the savings stop at the data center s walls.
- The core issue is how Nvidia measures data center water use.
Why this matters: a development in AI with implications for how people work, create, and decide.
Nvidia just announced a warm-water cooling system that it says can dramatically reduce the amount of water a data center uses — eliminating pretty much all water usage inside the data center, according to an Nvidia executive in a press release.
The water consumption challenge for data centers is largely solved, Josh Parker, chief sustainability officer at Nvidia, recently told Axios.
But that s only part of the water story. As long as AI data centers run on fossil fuels — a choice tech companies are increasingly making — the savings stop at the data center s walls.
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