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The extra computing power that s driving AI sharply increases the water needed to cool data centers. Some tech companies have creative ways to cut water use.
Companies looking for minerals often go to the Iowa Geologic Site and Sample Tracking Program, a University of Iowa repository of 10 million feet of drilling samples, rock chips from more than 40,000 wells and nearly 60,000 driller’s logs from across the state.