AI’s Unquenchable Thirst for Water Could Rival That of Some Nations

AI’s Unquenchable Thirst for Water Could Rival That of Some Nations

A bout halfway through Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith’s keynote address to Web Summit Vancouver in May, as he expounded on how AI might benefit humanity, things took an abrupt turn. Responsible AI, he said, “means, for us, building data centres . . . that are powered by carbon free energy, like the renewal of Three Mile Island . . .” The four iconic cylindrical towers of Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear plant, the site of …