lemmy.dexlit
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
@floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago

A.I. tools fueled a 34% spike in Microsoft’s water consumption, and one city with its data centers is concerned about the effect on residential supply

fortune.com

external-link
message-square
55
fedilink
424
external-link

A.I. tools fueled a 34% spike in Microsoft’s water consumption, and one city with its data centers is concerned about the effect on residential supply

fortune.com

@floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago
message-square
55
fedilink
“They were pretty secretive on what they’re doing out there,” says a former mayor about Microsoft’s data center projects.
  • @bob_wiley@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    22•
    edit-2
    2 years ago

    deleted by creator

    • @bhmnscmm@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      3•2 years ago

      Pretty much, unfortunately.

      Nobody wants to talk about all the wind energy used to run these data centers either, because that won’t generate any outrage.

    • @stranger@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      2•2 years ago

      We live in a society

Technology@lemmy.world

!technology@lemmy.world

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !technology@lemmy.world

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


  • @L4s@lemmy.world
  • @autotldr@lemmings.world
  • @PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks
  • @wikibot@lemmy.world
  • 4.81K users / day
  • 9.53K users / week
  • 18.1K users / month
  • 38.6K users / 6 months
  • 72.4K subscribers
  • 15K Posts
  • 610K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • @L3s@lemmy.world
  • enu
  • Technopagan
  • L4sBot
  • L3s
  • @L4s@hackingne.ws
  • BE: 0.19.3
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org