2022. In 2021, the company used up 4,772,890 cubic meters of water. In 2022 that went up to 6,399,415—which is around a 30 percent increase
from one year to the next. That’s almost 1.7 billion gallons of water in just one year, which is enough to fill more than 2,000 Olympic-sizedWhy did Microsoft draw so much freaking water? Data centers that run AI supercomputers are hot. Equipment heats up, and if a center overheats, those computers can. The increase in water use is directly tied to the company’s investment and development of AI. Microsoft has backed OpenAI, which has a data center in Des Moines, Iowa.
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