AI Is a Place: The Water, Power and Minerals Behind Computation

A magazine article argues that AI is not magic but a physical place, consuming water, power and minerals through concrete data centers. Readers echo the view, citing Atlas of AI on the need to trace AI's full material lifecycle.

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