Calgary teen wins international video award addressing AI’s water use

Fifteen-year-old Calgary student, Ania Udofia, has placed at this year’s World of 8 Billion International Student Video Contest. Anie was one of 5,000 students to enter the competition, but her project examining methods to cool down AI data centres set her apart from the crowd. As part of her research, the teen realized the popular evaporative technique to cool down the facilities could be improved. “I realized all that water is being wasted because of this specific strategy that they are using which is evaporative cooling,” Anie says, “And that there are other ways that we get to mitigate thi…