The accelerated growth of artificial intelligence is creating a new environmental problem related to water consumption. The data centers that support this technology need large amounts of water for cooling, and projections indicate that these centers could consume 644 billion liters of water by 2030.
The companies involved in this massive investment include Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Meta, which are investing billions of dollars in expanding the infrastructure needed to power artificial intelligence.
This problem arises at a time when the demand for AI services continues to grow exponentially, driving the need to build and expand more data centers worldwide.
The situation poses a new environmental challenge for the technology industry, which already faces criticism for other environmental impacts, such as high energy consumption and the carbon footprint associated with these infrastructures.
