AI is thirsty, but there's a way out.
The worry: training GPT-3 drank 700,000 litres of water, and AI could use 6.6bn cubic metres a year by 2027.
The Green fix: clean power (over half of AI's water is the power station, not the server), smart siting, closed-loop cooling.
Tech, joined up.
![Email slide 2 of 2. White background with a green header reading The Environment Agency's reply. The text reads:
Following guidance from the GB Non-Native Species Secretariat's floating pennywort strategy [link], we set up the River Avon Catchment Action Group in 2024 to bring together organisations, landowners, volunteers and community representatives to coordinate management across the wider catchment.
Since then, the group has met regularly to share information and coordinate activity, including a successful volunteer removal event in 2025. We had hoped to organise a further event during summer/ June 2026. Unfortunately, pressures arising from incident response work, including drought-related activity, meant that we were unable to do so this year.
However, we are in regular contact with Avon Navigation Trust who have advised us that they plan on carrying out clearance works across the Mill Avon section in the coming weeks.
We encourage you to continue to report this invasive non-native species by recording it using INNS Mapper. Link here - INNS Mapper [link].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dtccrb3e3wc7hkgjhm2a3rlt/bafkreiguhxbued2w3m7h3aukjnojzp2odhic436o57b6ifozy2b3fluptq)
