Between 2019 and 2023, water consumption in the region surged from 1.13 billion to at least 1.85 billion gallons, raising environmental concerns, especially during droughts affecting the Potomac watershed.
As a major hub for AI processing, “Data Center Alley” powers applications like ChatGPT and video/image generation tools. While exact AI processing figures aren’t disclosed, training large models requires thousands of high-performance GPUs or specialized accelerators. This leads to significant energy demands—one ChatGPT query can consume nearly 10 times the energy of a standard Google search.
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