Internal documents from 2025: Microsoft expects its annual water consumption to reach 28B liters by 2030, up from 7.9B liters in 2020 and 10.4B liters in 2024
Driven by the artificial intelligence frenzy, Microsoft is internally projecting that water use at its data centers will more than double …LinkedIn:Adam Satariano.Forums:r/technologyLinkedIn:Adam Sata...
Study: AI's 2025 power demand could hit 23GW, above 2024 Bitcoin mining levels, and AI carbon emissions could hit 32.6M to 79.7M tons, compared to NYC's 50M
A new study estimates the environmental impact of AI in 2025 and calls for more transparency from companies on their pollution and water consumption.
Malaysia's Johor state, which has approved 51 data centre projects as of November, stops approvals for new low-tier data centers citing high water consumption
JOHOR will stop approving applications for Tier 1 and Tier 2 data centres due to their massive water consumption, which can reach up to 50 million litres a day.
Google says the median Gemini app text prompt consumes 0.24Wh of energy, about the same as running a microwave for a second, and emits 0.03g of CO2 equivalent
an official report confirms that Gemini consumes per query: — 0.24 Wh of energy (~9 seconds of TV) — 0.03 g of CO2 equivalent — 0.26 ml of water (about 5 drops) — blog: cloud.google.com/blog/prod...
The Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association says Taiwan's semiconductor production is on track to increase 22% YoY to a record $165B in 2024 on AI demand
Nikkei Asia : Bluesky: @helloyorick.bsky.social Bluesky: Yorick / @helloyorick.bsky.social : When we talk about current and planned energy and water consumption of data centres driven by commercial A...
The Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association says Taiwan's semiconductor production is on track to increase 22% YoY to a record $165B in 2024 on AI demand
HSINCHU, Taiwan — Taiwan's semiconductor production is on track for a 22% increase this year to a record 5.3 trillion New Taiwan dollars … Bluesky: @helloyorick.bsky.social Bluesky: Yorick / @helloyor...
FOI documents: data center water consumption in Virginia, home to the world's largest cluster of data centers, hit 1.85B+ gallons in 2023, up from 1.13B in 2019
Usage has increased by almost two-thirds since 2019 in the world's largest concentration of computing infrastructure
Analysis: crypto mining used ~1,600 gigaliters of water in 2021 when bitcoin peaked at $65K, or 16K liters per transaction, around 6.2M times a credit card
Bitcoin mines aren't just energy-hungry, it turns out they're thirsty, too. The water consumption tied to a single Bitcoin transaction …
Microsoft sets a goal to reduce data center water consumption by 95% by 2024, building on broader 2030 climate commitments
Microsoft sets a goal of reducing data center water consumption by 95% by 2024, building on broader 2030 climate commitments
It's turning to new technology to cool servers without using water — Microsoft ramped up its commitments today to conserve water and energy in its data centers … Source: The Official Microsoft Blog ...