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  • The Ominous Link Between Rare Disease Outbreaks in 2023

    The Ominous Link Between Rare Disease Outbreaks in 2023

    This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. A 16-month-old boy was playing in a splash pad at a country club in Little Rock, Arkansas, this summer when water containing a very rare and deadly brain-eating amoeba went up his nose. He died a few days later in the…


  • Microsoft Is Using a Hell of a Lot of Water to Flood the World With AI

    Microsoft Is Using a Hell of a Lot of Water to Flood the World With AI

    As artificial intelligence is increasingly developing and data centres are erected to further this tech, it’s becoming clear that AI has a water usage problem. Microsoft’s latest sustainability report revealed that the software giant’s water usage saw a tremendous spike between 2021 and 2022. In 2021, the company used up 4,772,890 cubic meters of water.…