A data centre's water consumption goes up massively during the hot summer weather - at precisely the time water is most likely to be in short supply
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August 29, 2026 at 9:49 PM
While we're ordered to not use hosepipes, a single artificial intelligence data centre can use the same amount of H2O as 3,000 homes. That's why the drive to turn Britain into an AI superpower could leave us gasping for water
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