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Reading a Chest X-ray in Turkana: Where the AI Lives
The WHO-approved chest X-ray AI models running on tablets in Turkana are working. What is not yet settled is where the stack underneath them actually lives: training pipelines, reference datasets, and GPU clusters that remain, for now, in foreign clouds. The sovereignty argument in African clinical AI is not about slowing deployment — it is about writing the compute transition into procurement documents before the current generation of X-ray machines needs replacing.
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Nvidia's Water Solution Ends at the Property Line
Nvidia's warm-water cooling eliminates water use inside the data centre — and nothing beyond it. The bulk of AI's water footprint, roughly 54 per cent by the IEA's accounting, sits behind the meter in fossil fuel plants supplying the grid when renewables fall short. Until disclosure extends to end-to-end water intensity per compute-hour inclusive of generation fuel source, the industry is optimising for a boundary it drew itself.
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