AI's boom is draining global water supplies – what should users know?人工智能的蓬勃发展正在耗尽全球水资源——用户应该了解什么？
As the use of artificial intelligence spreads and the technology grows in scale, it is also soaking up an increasing share of essential resources needed to power and maintain datacentres.
AI is set to use as much water as more than a billion people by the end of the decade. — PHILIP DULIAN/dpa
TOKYO : As the use of artificial intelligence (AI) spreads and the technology grows in scale, it is also soaking up an increasing share of essential resources needed to power and maintain datacentres.
The International Energy Agency estimates that running a question by a chatbot uses 10 times as much energy as a Google search. But the growing number of datacentres that power AI not only burn through vast amounts of electricity, but also water.
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到本十年末，人工智能的用水量预计将超过十亿人口的用水量。——菲利普·杜利安/德新社
东京：随着人工智能 (AI) 的应用日益普及，技术规模不断扩大，它也消耗了越来越多的数据中心运行和维护所需的关键资源。
国际能源署估计，聊天机器人回答一个问题所消耗的能源是谷歌搜索的10倍。但为人工智能提供支持的数据中心数量不断增长，不仅消耗大量电力，还消耗大量水资源。
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