The AI Boom Could Triple Data Center Water Use by 2030
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The AI Boom Could Triple Data Center Water Use by 2030
The massive data center capacity scale-up underway has focused attention on the scale of water required for these facilities to operate. Rystad Energy estimates that without water-saving measures in place, global water consumption by data centers could rise to 644 billion liters per year by 2030. However, active mitigation could reduce demand to 388 billion liters, representing worst- and best-case scenarios as data center capacity ramps up, dri…
The global race for artificial intelligence is not only increasing the demand for chips, electricity and new digital infrastructures. It is bringing out another fundamental resource for the functioning of the digital economy: water. According to a new analysis by Rystad Energy, the direct consumption of water used for data centers cooling could go from about 222 billion [...] The article The thirst for artificial intelligence: the water consumpt…
Oslo, August 28 (Prensa Latina) Global annual water consumption in data centers could nearly triple from 222 billion liters in 2025 to 644 billion liters by 2030, it was revealed today. The post Water consumption in data centers could triple by 2030 first appeared on Prensa Latina News.
The strong growth in the capacity of data centres driven by the expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) threatens to trigger their water consumption over the next few years. Rystad Energy estimates that facilities around the world could go from directly consuming 222 billion litres of water for cooling in 2025 to nearly 644 billion litres per year in 2030 in a central risk scenario, which would increase demand by almost three in just five year…
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