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We tend to think of AI as a software problem, weightless and waterless, but even a 100-word email written with ChatGPT has been estimated to require roughly a bottle’s worth of water once data-centre ...
AI's water footprint, from the bottle-per-email estimate to the 4.2-6.6 billion cubic metre projection for 2027. Where the water goes, why the figures are estimates with wide ranges, the difference be...