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OpinionData centres as strategic assets: Decisions on data centres' power sourcing, cooling, and siting taken today will lock in impact for decades
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What Exactly Do Data Centres Do, And Why Do They Need So Much Water?: We asked experts to explain.
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Southeast Asia’s AI boom puts data centre sustainability to the test: JAKARTA: The artificial intelligence boom is driving rapid expansion of digital ...
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Along With Incentives, Guardrails Needed For Data Centres: Water stress is already a concern in several markets. India must build the infrastructure it needs ...
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Karnataka’s new data centre policy puts water, energy in focus: What does it say?
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Paid articlePaywall Data centres turn to air cooling to ease India's water woes: Is it enough?: India's AI data-centre boom is intensifying concerns over water and power use ...
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Why global investors are betting on India’s data centres without ‘buying’ them: S&P Global says India’s data centre market has entered a rapid ...
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Is India’s data centre boom coming at the cost of the environment?: India is building data centres rapidly to support cloud computing, digital services, and AI ...
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South Africa’s data centre ‘gold rush’ risks resource crunch: Critics worry resource-hungry sites may worsen power, water shortages
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5x Capacity Surge: 2 stocks cornering India’s ₹20,000 crore data centre policy prize
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OpinionGood call to revisit data centre policy : Karnataka IT Policy: The government’s plan to revisit its data centre policy highlights concerns over water use ...
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America’s AI Boom Is Running Into An Unplanned Water Problem: America’s AI boom is driving a surge in data center construction—along with rising water demand ...
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Paid articlePaywall Mint Explainer | India’s booming data centre industry: Which is the way of water and power for $70 billion investments? | Mint
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Do AI data centres have a PR problem? A look inside a ‘sustainable’ high-tech facility
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Explainer: What’s driving the rush for data centres: Driven by AI adoption, data localisation, and surging traffic, India's data centre capacity is ...
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Beyond Adani & Airtel: The 3 ‘quiet’ winners of India’s data centre rush: India’s data centre buildout is creating new winners behind the scenes ...
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AI-related data centres use vast amounts of water. But gauging how much is a murky business
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AI demand means data centres are worsening drought in Mexico: Activists in Querétaro criticise state government for prioritising the data processing needs for US ...
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Europe's thirst for AI runs into local water worries: The EU hopes to triple its data centre capacity by 2032 and that's going to need a lot of water
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Water consumption: the big unknown with increasing AI use: There have only been a few studies that specifically address the water consumption of AI ...
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In Utah, a $2 billion investment is helping build one of the biggest data centers in the world
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