{"id":227689,"date":"2026-06-08T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T09:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/price-of-progress-ai-is-rapidly-depleting-the-earths-water-resources\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T05:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T09:20:20","slug":"price-of-progress-ai-is-rapidly-depleting-the-earths-water-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/price-of-progress-ai-is-rapidly-depleting-the-earths-water-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Price of progress: AI is rapidly depleting the Earth&#8217;s water resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/universemagazine.com\/en\/artificial-intelligence-poses-a-greater-threat-to-the-earths-environment-than-humans\/\">Price of progress: AI is rapidly depleting the Earth&#8217;s water resources<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/universemagazine.com\/en\/artificial-intelligence-poses-a-greater-threat-to-the-earths-environment-than-humans\/\">https:\/\/universemagazine.com\/en\/artificial-intelligence-poses-a-greater-threat-to-the-earths-environment-than-humans\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-08 05:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"universemagazine.com\">universemagazine.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Data centers powering AI are projected to consume 945 TWh of electricity annually by 2030, which is more than seven times Ukraine&#8217;s current energy usage.<\/li>\n<li>AI&#8217;s environmental impact extends beyond just energy consumption to include significant water and land footprints due to cooling systems, infrastructure, and supply chains.<\/li>\n<li>A United Nations University study suggests that AI could require as much water as the basic domestic needs of 1.3 billion people by the end of the decade.<\/li>\n<li>The infrastructure for AI could expand to over 14,500 square kilometers, equivalent to twice the size of Jakarta, potentially worsening the environmental impact even with green energy projects.<\/li>\n<li>Most of the energy used in AI is consumed during daily operations rather than during the initial training phase of AI models.<\/li>\n<li>The environmental strain from AI is disproportionately felt in regions where new data centers are opening due to local power grid pressures and water shortages.<\/li>\n<li>The AI industry is expected to generate about 2.5 million tons of electronic waste annually by 2030, burdening low-income countries that lack proper recycling facilities.<\/li>\n<li>The current boom in AI is intensifying global inequality as over 90% of specialized AI computing power is dominated by the U.S. and China, while many other countries lack such infrastructure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Price of progress: AI is rapidly depleting the Earth&#8217;s water resources https:\/\/universemagazine.com\/en\/artificial-intelligence-poses-a-greater-threat-to-the-earths-environment-than-humans\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-08&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/universemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/nasa-q1p7bh3shj8-unsplash.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227691,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227689\/revisions\/227691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}