Microsoft Is Draining an Arizona Town's Water Supply for its AI

AI Thirst A massive Microsoft data center in Goodyear, Arizona — allegedly built for use by both Microsoft and OpenAI — is guzzling the desert town's water to support its cloud computing and AI efforts, The Atlantic reports. Powering AI demands an incredible amount of energy. Worsening AI's massive environmental footprint is the fact that […]

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