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AI data centers' hidden environmental cost under scrutiny
Original: The hidden environmental cost of AI data centers
Reporting by Deutsche Welle highlights the environmental toll of the data centers powering artificial intelligence, from heavy electricity and water consumption to carbon emissions and strain on local grids. As AI adoption accelerates worldwide, the infrastructure behind it is drawing growing criticism, with calls for transparency and stricter sustainability standards intensifying across the tech industry.
Why now: Rapid AI growth is raising public concern over the energy and water use of the data centers that support it.
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