{"id":103378,"date":"2024-04-17T02:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T02:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=103378"},"modified":"2024-04-17T02:00:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T02:00:19","slug":"chinas-growing-data-centres-and-ai-industry-could-strain-scarce-water-resources-according-to-new-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=103378","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s growing data centres and AI industry could strain scarce water resources, according to new report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostHong Kong think tank says annual water use by Chinese data facilities \u2013 almost half of which are in dry regions \u2013 could more than double by 2030, while AI chatbots \u2018drink staggering amounts of water\u2019 to cool themselves down.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3259230\/chinas-growing-data-centres-and-ai-industry-could-strain-scarce-water-resources-according-new-report?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostHong Kong think tank says annual water use by Chinese data facilities \u2013 almost half of which are in dry regions \u2013 could more&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103378"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}