@AIArmsRace

Should we count AI infrastructure as heavy industry? A new post provides some background to the story published with @leanahosea in @guardiannews on 17 December theaiarmsrace.substack.com/p/data-centres…

@MonicaHone @leanahosea @RosieP4 @WATERSHED_i Our article is about the indirect water use (eg water consumed during power generation). The data centre operator is planning a cooling system which uses little water directly. But "closed loop" systems still need a lot of electricity, and therefore need water to generate it.

@leanahosea @RosieP4 @WATERSHED_i @AIArmsRacebook I've been trying to find out why these data centres can't use water on a closed loop... Do you know anything?

The UK’s largest planned data centre — a project by US firm QTS — is understating its true water consumption by a factor of 50, according to new analysis by @WATERSHED_i with @AIArmsRacebook using Let's not kid ourselves, AI is a heavy, polluting industry. theguardian.com/environment/20…