Author: Joe Green

Sustainability company Ecolab has highlighted the continued and increasing demands placed on natural resources by AI computing technology, particularly the use of water. It aims to balance the protection of water resources with data centre profitability, using the same machine learning-based technologies in the sector’s own operations. Water is a resource under increasing demand due to the additional power requirements of digital technology operations. Water is used by data centres primarily for cooling to prevent hardware overheating during intensive computation. The cooling of data centres can consume up to 40% of a facility’s power, although that figure depends on where…