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Amazon first discloses data centre water use at 9.4 billion litres a year

Amazon for the first time disclosed the amount of water it used to run data centres worldwide, saying it consumed about 2.5 billion gallons, or roughly 9.5 billion litres, last year. The company said its data centres used an average of 0.12 litres of water per kilowatt hour of electricity, and that total water use fell 2 percent from a year earlier. Critics note the figure excludes indirect water use at power plants and during construction.

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Seattle to halt new data centre construction for a year amid power and housing cost concerns

Seattle will suspend new data centre construction for 1 year after the City Council unanimously approved a moratorium on future projects. The move does not apply to developments already approved. The city cited concerns over higher electricity and water use, noise and environmental burdens, and rising public utility bills felt by residents. Officials said the pause will give Seattle time to craft its own regulatory framework and review criteria for data centre projects.

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Personalisation that general-purpose AI cannot do can be solved with local AI, founder says

Weeklay founder Yoon Joo-hyun (윤주현) said his company is betting on local AI to deliver personalisation that cloud-based general-purpose AI lacks. Weeklay’s local AI agent platform, Aulo, runs entirely on a PC without connecting to cloud servers, keeping personal data on-device. Users download Aulo and train it on their own data, then can share trained agents through an outlet feature while keeping underlying training data hidden.