@julien_c: May journalists everywhere read this
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NVIDIA highlights a statistic from the Manhattan Institute showing that data centers account for only 0.2% of daily U.S. water usage, a figure that has declined in recent years due to new technologies.
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May journalists everywhere read this
NVIDIA (@nvidia): Water usage has been a hot topic in the AI data center world, but the numbers may surprise you.
According to the Manhattan Institute, data centers use 0.2 percent of daily water usage in the U.S. and that number has dramatically decreased in the past few years due to a new
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