Center for Water Policy Director, Professor, and Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair Melissa Scanlan appeared in a DW Planet A video on “Why people are throwing AI data centers into the ocean.” In the video’s exploration of various tech experiments to reduce the water and energy demands of data centers, Professor Scanlan highlights the shift to hyperscale facilities, which operate on a vastly higher scale than the smaller infrastructure that has been present in many of our communities for years.
Watch the DW Planet A video and tune in just after the two-minute mark to hear Professor Scanlan: Why people are throwing AI data centers into the ocean
Read some of the Center for Water Policy’s research on AI-Data Centers using the links below:
AI-Data Centers: Legislative Model to Promote Transparency and Environmental Protections
Powering Progress or Peril? The Hidden Environmental Costs of Data Centers and AI