You cannot swim in a river or in the sea artificial intelligence. It’s no use if you’re thirsty. You can’t irrigate fields with AI either. However, it’s great. It can enhance and replace many things we know in the world. But it will never be able to replace water, which is the most basic and important element.
What is the relationship between water and artificial intelligence? One of the environmental problems generated by data centers is excessive water use. The thousands of computers that make up these data centers produce a large amount of heat that must be cooled just like a car. If it is not cooled, overheating may lead to system failure, data corruption, and slowed activity.
Keep that temperature Under control requires industrial-scale refrigeration, with a system that continuously circulates water. They are “cooling towers” that consume millions of liters of water annually.
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“The demand for water is so intense in Queretaro that the city’s dams are starting to dry up.”
Fresh water specifically is a Rare goodness on this planet.
This is not a fantasy of the future. It’s already happening. In the city of Colon, in the Mexican state of Queretaro, Microsoft installed an artificial intelligence data center. The demand for water is so intense that the city’s dams are drying up.
Water: the most abundant goodness on the planet and at the same time the most rare
What do we do? Shall we close? early To the future? impossible. AI heroes displaying their impressive photos and fortunes around the world should be asked to participate in the solution. Let them occupy all human and artificial minds so that the world to come will not leave us dry and sick.
The price of innovation cannot be this high. Therefore, let us put human intelligence into development, so that the future will not be artificial.
*Journalist, audio-visual producer and content creator about science and technology
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