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TOI World Desk

A proposed 330-megawatt AI data centre in California promised not to use Colorado River water. Now it wants 260 million gallons a year

The AI boom is spreading data centres across the world faster than most tech projects. These AI lifelines work on two important resources, water and electricity, which they use from the areas they are located in. Often this leads to a fight between the locals and the tech giant owning the data centre since resources are limited and want is not.

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