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AI Is Accelerating the Loss of Our Scarcest Natural Resource: Water
(www.forbes.com)
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this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2025
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I get why you'd ask, but I don't think so. Seems to just be a case of English as a second language to me.
I see the confusion. In this case, evaporating doesn't happen the natural way of boiling at 100 degrees celcius. Instead, these data centers mostly use things called cooling towers, where the warm water is sprayed into the air and some of it evaporates. It's not technically "consumed", because again, I emphasise that water doesn't dissapear. It instead goes through the water cycle, but this evaporating removes water from the local supply, which can be a problem in water-scarce areas.