AI data centres’ voracious thirst for water makes their environmental footprint even bigger

The enormous Google data centre in Papillion, Neb., consumed 1.5 billion litres of water in 2024 to cool its power-mad AI ...
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The World Bank said Mission 300 has electrified 50 million Africans, so we checked

Building a power plant in sub-Saharan Africa takes, on a good day, seven years from board approval to lightbulbs blinking. In some cases, 15 years have been clocked. Transmission lines through ...