Meta Building Gigawatt-Sized Data Centers for AI, Raising Water Consumption Concerns
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Meta is building gigawatt-sized data centers to power AI, with the first center named Prometheus in Ohio. CEO Mark Zuckerberg aims to achieve 'superintelligence' through these centers, despite concerns about their massive water consumption.
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The term 'superintelligence' typically refers to artificial general intelligence (AGI), which describes AI systems with human-level intelligence across multiple domains.
The first center, Prometheus, is set to come online next year in Ohio.
Meta's data centers are raising concerns about their significant water consumption.
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