gtbarry<p>'I can't drink the water' - life next to a US data centre</p><p>The cloud lives in over 10,000 data centres around the world, most of them located in the US, followed by the UK and Germany.</p><p>With AI now driving a surge in online activity, that number is growing fast. And with them, more complaints from nearby residents.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>water</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>meta</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/datacenter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>datacenter</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/artiificialintelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>artiificialintelligence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cloud</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cloudcomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cloudcomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8gy7lv448o" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/cy8gy7lv</span><span class="invisible">448o</span></a></p>