That thirstiness was affirmed this week when Microsoft released , the likes of which showed that its water usage had skyrocketed between 2021 and 2022. The report, which tracks the period when the companys AI operations began to accelerate, showed that Microsoft had burned through some 6,399,415 cubic meters of water in a 12 month period—about a 30 percent increase from the rate of the previous year. The findings arent exactly surprising. A published earlier this year by the University of Cal
