We break down how much water AI data centres use.
Concerns and questions mount after the City of Cape Town’s Municipal Planning Tribunal (MPT) supported an application for the rezoning of a hyperscale data centre development at King Air Industria.
But how much water do these hyperscale data centres use, and should we be concerned?
As we all know, the use of artificial intelligence is skyrocketing globally, and its environmental cost is alarming.
A single 100-word AI prompt or your venting into ChatGPT consumes roughly 519 millilitres of water, about the size of a standard water bottle.
