Artificial intelligence is transforming everything from scientific research to everyday computing, but its rapid growth comes with an increasingly visible environmental cost. Behind every AI model lies a vast network of data centres that consume enormous amounts of electricity and water to keep powerful processors operating safely.

Centros de datos: la demanda de agua que crece con el avance de la inteligencia artificial.La refrigeración de servidores suma presión sobre recursos hídricos locales.

A new NVIDIA cooling design claims to use almost no water inside the data center, though critics say that's only part of AI's water bill.