One more time for the people in the back: every conversation about "AI" should begin and end with its environmental impacts:
"We tend to think of the cloud as something invisible - floating above us in the digital ether. But the reality is very physical.
The cloud lives in over 10,000 data centres around the world, most of them located in the US, followed by the UK and Germany.
Many centres use evaporative cooling systems, where water absorbs heat and evaporates - similar to how sweat wicks away heat from our bodies. On hot days, a single facility can use millions of gallons.
One study estimates that AI-driven data centres could consume 1.7 trillion gallons of water globally by 2027."
