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Water, power to emerge alongside training data as potential limits to AI development, data center builder says

By Mike Swift ( August 19, 2024, 15:37 GMT | Insight) -- A massive need for training data is widely understood as a limiting factor in the development of generative artificial intelligence tools. But the chief executive of the company racing to build data centers around the world for the likes of Google and Meta Platforms says two more basic commodities are emerging a limiting factors in the development of AI: electricity to power data centers and water to cool them.A key limiting factor in enabling generative artificial intelligence systems is often understood to be the vast amounts of data needed to train them. But the CEO of the world’s largest private controller of data centers says two potentially bigger limits are emerging: Electricity and water....

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