Google games numbers to make AI look less thirsty Datacenters' drinking habit exaggerated, claims report comparing apples to oranges

Google games numbers to make AI look less thirsty

: Datacenters' drinking habit exaggerated, claims report comparing apples to oranges

Dirty Google up to its dirty, sleazy tricks again. The Be Evil Corp that is the master of sleaze propaganda. And it thinks we're all so stupid, we'll lap up its misinformation.

“It’s not so much that they will explode, but that we can’t see them,” she told the audience. By “can’t see them,” Dutta was referring to agreements by government officials and agencies — including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — to shield the specific details about the chemicals used in computer-chip manufacturing from public view based on corporate concerns about revealing trade secrets."

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India has recorded a 147 per cent increase in e-waste generation over the past seven years, from 0.7 million tonnes in 2017-18 to 1.75 million tonnes in 2023-24. India witnessed 33.5 per cent increase in the number of hazardous waste-generating industries in the past seven years. This has increased hazardous waste generation by 96 per cent to 18.51 million tonnes

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"In 2023, Google operations worldwide consumed 6.4 billion gallons of water (24.2 billion liters), with 95%, 6.1 billion gallons (23.1 billion liters), used by data centers. Google reports that in 2024, the company’s data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa, consumed 1 billion gallons of water (3.8 billion liters), the most of any of its data centers."

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