California tightens rules on AI data center energy and water use

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed 7 bills designed to forestall AI information centers from passing inferior costs onto residents, arsenic reported earlier by the Los Angeles Times. The bundle of laws requires the California Public Utilities Commission to present a caller complaint classification for information centers, portion forcing them to wage for upgrades to section powerfulness grids and h2o systems.

Other bills included successful the bundle volition necessitate projected information centers to disclose their estimated h2o usage to section governments, on with accusation astir vigor ratio and drought planning. They indispensable besides conscionable definite energy, water, and substance depletion …

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