{"id":9898,"date":"2026-06-12T12:06:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9898"},"modified":"2026-06-12T12:06:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:06:22","slug":"ai-is-set-to-consume-up-to-600-billion-gallons-of-water-by-2030-rising-energy-consumption-primarily-to-blame-as-data-center-power-demands-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9898","title":{"rendered":"AI is set to consume up to 600 billion gallons of water by 2030 \u2014 rising energy consumption primarily to blame as data center power demands rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\">\n<strong> Jon Martindale <\/strong><br \/>\n &bull;<br \/>\nJune 11, 2026\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nDirect cooling data center GPUs uses only a fraction of the water required to keep them running, and with plans for future GPUs and rack systems to be even more power hungry, this problem could make data centers even more of a resource hog.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/tech-industry\/ai-is-set-to-consume-up-to-600-billion-gallons-of-water-by-2030-rising-energy-consumption-primarily-to-blame-as-data-center-power-demands-rise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Martindale &bull; June 11, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}