Data Centers and Their Environmental Impact

What Are AI Data Centers?

An AI data center is a facility that houses hardware such as storage systems, servers and networking equipment to train, deploy and deliver AI applications and services. The difference between AI data centers and conventional data centers that are used for cloud storage or hosting website is mainly the workload and equipment the task load to run AI is significantly higher causing the data centers to need much more equipment and resources. The demands that AI data centers put on the resources are damaging the communities around them and need to be run more efficiently if AI is going to continues being predominant in our world.

In What Ways Is AI Effecting Our World?

AI is putting strain on the communities and resources around them by increasing the greenhouse gases in the area and stealing local drinking water. Below are the main effects of AI data centers that I am going to be touching on. Click on the image or text above it to go to a page that talks about each specific issue.