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Research Highlights
AI’s Cooling Problem: How Data Centers Are Transforming Water Use
By: Mara Pusic The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and the rapid deployment of high-performance accelerated servers have dramatically transformed the energy use of data centers. U.S. data centers now make up about 4.4.% of electricity consumption nationwide, up from about 1.9% in 2018, and it is predicted that by 2028, this number could climb as high as 12.0%.  Rising energy consumption is not the only environmental concern associated with AI. Data centers also have a th
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Speed First, Safety Last, and More Energy
By: Dave Rejeski In May, OpenAI announced a $6.5 billion investment in a startup called io, a partnership with the former Apple design...
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