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AI Data Centre Expansion Puts Electricity Grids and Water Supplies Under Pressure

The expansion of artificial intelligence is creating growing infrastructure requirements for electricity, cooling, water and waste management, making access to physical resources an increasingly important factor in data-centre investment decisions. Behind AI services are semiconductor manufacturing facilities, server halls, cooling installations, substations, transmission networks and water systems. The scale of this infrastructure is reflected in figures cited by MAT, which indicate that global data centres currently consume approximately 1.5% of the world's electricity. That share could rise to around 3%…