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America May Have Just Found More Drinking Water

/in , /by /Newsweekby Robyn White

There may be more drinking water waiting to be found in the Western U.S., a new computer model suggests.

The new model uses artificial intelligence (AI) to get better estimations of water supply across large distances in the West. Details on the computer model and its findings were published in Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence by researchers at Washington State University.

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Google’s Water Use Is Soaring. AI Is Only Going to Make It Worse.

/in , , /by /Business Insiderby Hugh Langley

Google just published its 2023 environmental report, and one thing is for certain: The company’s water use is soaring. The internet giant said it consumed 5.6 billion gallons of water in 2022, the equivalent of 37 golf courses. Most of that — 5.2 billion gallons — was used for the company’s data centers, a 20% increase on the amount Google reported the year prior.

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