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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% 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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