{"id":184363,"date":"2024-03-05T15:23:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T21:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/microsoft-is-draining-an-arizona-towns-water-supply-for-its-ai"},"modified":"2024-03-05T15:23:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T21:23:28","slug":"microsoft-is-draining-an-arizona-towns-water-supply-for-its-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/microsoft-is-draining-an-arizona-towns-water-supply-for-its-ai","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Is Draining an Arizona Town\u2019s Water Supply for its AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-is-draining-an-arizona-towns-water-supply-for-its-ai2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A massive Microsoft data center in Goodyear, Arizona is guzzling the desert town\u2019s water supply to support its cloud computing and AI efforts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2024\/03\/ai-water-climate-microsoft\/677602\/?gift=iWa_iB9lkw4UuiWbIbrWGSgF7Etgr_BhmgDCCZVB-xA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share\" class=\"\"><em>The Atlantic<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A source familiar with Microsoft\u2019s Goodyear facility told the <em>Atlantic<\/em> that it was specifically designed for use by Microsoft and the heavily Micosoft-funded OpenAI. In response to this allegation, both companies declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Powering AI demands an incredible amount of energy. Worsening AI\u2019s massive environmental footprint is the fact that it also consumes a mind-boggling amount of water. AI pulls enough electricity from data centers that they risk overheating, so to mitigate that risk, engineers use water to cool the servers back down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive Microsoft data center in Goodyear, Arizona is guzzling the desert town\u2019s water supply to support its cloud computing and AI efforts, The Atlantic reports. A source familiar with Microsoft\u2019s Goodyear facility told the Atlantic that it was specifically designed for use by Microsoft and the heavily Micosoft-funded OpenAI. In response to this allegation, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}