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Concern the UK's AI ambitions could lead to water shortages - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)

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On the flip side, isn't this a chance to become the defacto world leader in desalination?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

The government is backing plans for nine new reservoirs to ease the risk of rationing and hosepipe bans during droughts.

But some of these are in areas where new data centres are set to be built.

This complaint seems odd. Surely it's good that some of the reservoirs being built will also help data centres?

Data centres are needed, reservoirs are needed, work seems to be underway for us to have both.