A.I. tools fueled a 34% spike in Microsoft’s water consumption, and one city with its data centers is concerned about the effect on residential supply - eviltoast
“They were pretty secretive on what they’re doing out there,” says a former mayor about Microsoft’s data center projects.
  • theDoctor@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    28·
    1 year ago

    AI Tools - plural. ChatGPT (and OpenAI as a whole) predominantly runs on Azure infrastructure. Microsoft also owns GitHub with its associated copilot. And now all the Microsoft product specific copilots.

    Not trying to defend their usage, but there are several forests here that are quite visible.