{"id":1039688,"date":"2026-09-30T09:18:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T03:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039688"},"modified":"2026-09-30T09:23:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T03:53:56","slug":"ais-next-challenge-is-not-just-chips-its-electricity-water-and-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/30\/ais-next-challenge-is-not-just-chips-its-electricity-water-and-land\/","title":{"rendered":"AI\u2019s next challenge is not just chips. It\u2019s electricity, water and land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The artificial intelligence boom is creating a new environmental challenge far beyond the technology itself \u2013 the infrastructure needed to run it. <\/p>\n<p>Every AI query, image, video or reasoning task requires computing power. That computing takes place in data centres packed with specialised chips and servers, which consume electricity and generate heat. Keeping those systems running therefore requires not just more power, but also increasingly sophisticated cooling infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The artificial intelligence boom is creating a new environmental challenge far beyond the technology itself \u2013 the infrastructure needed to run it. Every AI query, image, video or reasoning task requires computing power. That computing takes place in data centres packed with specialised chips and servers, which consume electricity and generate heat. Keeping those systems running therefore requires not just more power, but also increasingly sophisticated cooling infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039689,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039688\/revisions\/1039689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}