CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) – As artificial intelligence continues to expand, UVA researchers are examining how that growth could impact local communities and the environment.
The research comes after national headlines around data center developments in places like Newton county, Georgia-where local water use sparked public concern.
“These data centers take a lot of money to construct, but more importantly on an ongoing basis they take an awful lot of energy and water in order to power them and maintain them,” said Mar Hicks, an Associate Professor of Data Science at UVA…