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My Gladstone

My Gladstone

Microsoft’s OpenAI data center in Goodyear, Arizona, is taking water from the desert

My Gladstone
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The American Southwest is a perfect battleground for two pivotal trends: the explosive growth of generative AI and the capricious climate.

With over 300 data centers globally, Microsoft boasted in 2021 about building 50 to 100 new ones annually .

Microsoft 's data center in Arizona will absorb excess heat using “evaporated drinking water’s”.

A study from the Netherlands estimates that AI servers’ electricity consumption could balloon to 100 terawatt hours per year—equivalent to the annual consumption of Sweden .

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes sagely noted, “Allowing one more data center to come to our state is an easy but stupid decision” Microsoft announced a shiny new partnership with the UN , claiming it would use AI to help track global carbon emissions.

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