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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.