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Fortune
Angelica Ang

AI’s power and water consumption is worrying the agriculture sector: ‘Don’t forget that it is also required for us to grow food’

(Credit: Graham Uden for Fortune)

Nations around the world are rapidly building out the infrastructure needed to take part in the AI boom–including massive, multibillion dollar investments in data centers, which house and manage the servers needed to process, store and share information.

Yet data centers guzzle up energy and water, needed to power servers and cool systems. And that may end up putting strain on another industry that’s just as important for a country’s future: Agriculture.

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