{"id":959950,"date":"2025-09-08T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T03:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=959950"},"modified":"2025-09-08T09:17:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T03:47:01","slug":"ai-data-centers-to-drive-11-fold-rise-in-water-consumption-by-2028-morgan-stanley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/08\/ai-data-centers-to-drive-11-fold-rise-in-water-consumption-by-2028-morgan-stanley\/","title":{"rendered":"AI data centers to drive 11-fold rise in water consumption by 2028: Morgan Stanley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial Intelligence (AI) data centers are expected to significantly increase global water consumption in the coming years, according to a report by Morgan Stanley.<\/p>\n<p>The report said annual water use for cooling and electricity generation by AI data centres could reach around 1,068 billion litres by 2028.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;AI data centers to drive annual water consumption for cooling and electricity generation to approximately 1,068 billion liters by 2028 (our base case) &#8211; an 11x increase from 2024 estimates,&#8221; it stated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial Intelligence (AI) data centers are expected to significantly increase global water consumption in the coming years, according to a report by Morgan Stanley. The report said annual water use for cooling and electricity generation by AI data centres could reach around 1,068 billion litres by 2028. &#8220;AI data centers to drive annual water consumption for cooling and electricity generation to approximately 1,068 billion liters by 2028 (our base case) &#8211; an 11x increase from 2024 estimates,&#8221; it stated.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959950","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=959950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}