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AI Is Draining Water From Areas That Need It Most https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-impacts-data-centers-water-data/
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/
The growing energy footprint of artificial intelligence (2023) https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(23)00365-3
AI power demand rapidly escalating https://digiconomist.net/ai-power-demand-rapidly-escalating/
Artificial intelligence: Supply chain constraints and energy implications https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542435125001424
Previously on Pivot to AI:
Bitcoin’s stupendous power waste is green, apparently — bad excuses for Proof-of-Work (2018) https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2018/05/22/bitcoins-stupendous-power-waste-is-green-apparently-bad-excuses-for-proof-of-work/
OpenAI signs $40 billion deal with SoftBank! or maybe $30 billion, probably https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/02/openai-signs-its-40-billion-deal-with-softbank-or-maybe-30-billion-probably/
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