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Big Tech under pressure to act on data centres’ thirst for water
數據中心耗水嚴重,大型科技公司面臨壓力

Calls for a rethink on taking a scarce resource to cool overheated facilities are growing in the US
在美國,要求重新考慮使用稀缺資源來冷卻過熱設施的呼聲日益高漲。

Booming demand for artificial intelligence tools, accelerated by the uptake of generative AI, is putting an increasing strain on water supplies to cool the IT infra­structure underpinning the technology. Now, the companies operating these data centres are facing calls to make the facilities much more efficient and subject to greater regulation.

生成式人工智慧的普及加速了對人工智慧工具的蓬勃需求,這對冷卻支撐該技術的IT基礎設施的水資源造成了越來越大的壓力。現在,運營這些數據中心的公司面臨著提高設施效率和加強監管的呼聲。

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