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Climate change is impacting everything, like it or not.

However, the advent ofBing ChatandChatGPTmay have thrown a wrench in the works.

OpenAI Microsoft sinking under water

Azure servers use mountains of water for cooling.

Microsoft is generally quite transparent about its energy usage, owing to its pledge to annualizereportsinto its environmental impacts.

For Microsoft, it creates something of a headache.

The water consumption from its AI threatens to undo that, potentially.

Microsoft Azure servers

Azure servers use mountains of water for cooling.

Analysis: Giving up?

Water scarcity is projected to become a major challenge as we head into the mid 21st century.

Individuals can only do so much to curtail their own carbon footprint.

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It’s on the massive players like Microsoft, alongside nation states, to boost their carbon credentials.

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