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One Australian state is set to get a data centre cooled with recycled water after criticism that the...

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Large-scale data center infrastructure in Australia's New South Wales is transitioning to recycled water cooling to mitigate the significant environmental footprint of generative AI training and deployment. This shift addresses emerging resource-scarcity risks as frontier AI capabilities drive exponential increases in water and energy consumption. While primarily focused on environmental sustainability, the development highlights the physical infrastructure dependencies required to maintain the global expansion of high-compute AI models.

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