BLACKSBURG, Va., April 14 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
Note to readers: This series of articles focuses on researchers whose work improves efficiency, addresses concerns, or offers alternative solutions to some of the pressing issues created by data centers.
There's a lot of conflicting information floating around about just how much water data centers really use.
When it comes to the hyperscaled, artificial intelligence (AI)-driven data centers, there's water for cooling the components, especially during intense model training. There's some nominal water use for each query. But how that water - and, at least as crucially, power - is allocated is a lot more complicated than may...