AI Water Consumption Shocks: Recently a report has come out, in which it has been revealed that the water consumption of AI systems has now increased so much that it has even exceeded the amount of bottled water used in a year across the world.
AI drinks more water than humans
AI Water Consumption Shocks: In today’s digital world, AI (Artificial Intelligence) has become an important part of people’s needs. Everyone is using AI to get answers to the smallest and biggest questions. At the same time, AI also answers questions within a few seconds without stopping. But the AI which people are using in such large quantities without thinking, the same AI is silently drinking the water of the earth and is having a very bad effect on the environment.
More consumption than bottled water
Recently a report has come out, in which it has been revealed that the water consumption of AI systems has now increased so much that it has even exceeded the amount of bottled water used in a year across the world. This figure may sound normal, but it is a serious alarm bell for the future.
AI is drinking more water than humans
Let us tell you that for the operation of AI, there are huge data centers, where thousands of servers work day and night. These servers become very hot during operation, and large amounts of water are used to cool them and control the heat (temperature). In a way, water is the real ‘fuel’ of AI, because without it these systems can stop working. But most people around the world are not aware of this invisible process, which is why they are using AI in such large quantities without understanding its environmental impacts. Research has shown that by the year 2025, AI related systems can consume 300 to 700 billion liters of water in a year.
If we compare this, this quantity is much more than the bottled water sold in the whole world. That is, it would not be wrong to say that AI machines are silently using more water than the people around the world buy and drink.
Consumption of electricity along with water
Apart from this, the electricity consumption in these centers running AI is also very high, which directly means more pollution and carbon emissions. It has been estimated that in the year 2025, the pollution caused by AI could be equal to the annual pollution of a big city like New York or a small country like Norway.
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Experts warn
The surprising thing is that even a small question asked to AI may seem trivial, but its collective impact is huge. When millions of people around the world use AI tools every day, this drop-by-drop consumption of water adds up to billions of litres. This is why experts are now warning that if the development and use of AI continues like this without any concrete environmental planning, then the drinking water crisis may increase further in the future.
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