 Use
of electricity is only half of the story of AI, it also has
a significant water footprint. Consider that a large AI data
center can require between 1 and 5 million gallons of water
per day for cooling. On the high end, that's equivalent to
the water use of 50,000 local residents. If that facility
draws from the same water system as the community, conflicts
can arise. In Mesa, Arizona (a desert city), there is new
data centers out of fear for the city's future water supply
amid a megadrought. More |
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 'Hell
hath no fury like a woman scorned' is an idiom that is
adapted from a line in William Congreve's play, The Mourning
Bride (1697). The line from which it came is ''Heaven has no
rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a
woman scorned.''' People usually think that this quote comes
from Shakespeare, that it is one of the hundreds of
Shakespeare's phrases that have become idioms, as it looks
as though it is one of Shakespeare's lines. More |
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  The
author tells us about his latest joy-sparking activity:
Watching TV shows with the ''Audio Description for the
Visually Impaired'' feature turned on. He's a longtime fan
of watching TV and movies with closed captioning, he's not
hearing impaired, but those typewritten words on the screen
allows him to decipher thick accents, and identify noises in
the background. Recently, he tried out another accessibility
feature, one for the visually impaired. More
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in 1946, they saved their hotel receipt for their $7 honeymoon
room. Returning 60 years later, the hotel charges them the same
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