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AI Data Centers and the Water Use Feedback Loop
Basit A. Akinade, Amobichukwu C. Amanambu, Jonathan M. Frame +1
AI data centres consume water for cooling, water scarcity constrains siting, and AI tools can improve water system efficiency. These dynamics are studied separately yet form a feed…
WaterAdmin: Orchestrating Community Water Distribution Optimization via AI Agents
Jiaqi Wen, Pingbo Tang, Shaolei Ren +1
We study the operation of community water systems, where pumps and valves must be scheduled to reliably meet water demands while minimizing energy consumption. While existing optim…
Small Bottle, Big Pipe: Quantifying and Addressing the Impact of Data Centers on Public Water Systems
Yuelin Han, Pengfei Li, Adam Wierman +1
Water is a critical resource for data centers and an efficient means of cooling. However, meeting the growing water demand of data centers requires substantial peak water withdrawa…
Fairness-Regularized Online Optimization with Switching Costs
Pengfei Li, Yuelin Han, Adam Wierman +1
Fairness and action smoothness are two crucial considerations in many online optimization problems, but they have yet to be addressed simultaneously. In this paper, we study a new…
What AI Speaks for Your Community: Polling AI Agents for Public Opinion on Data Center Projects
Zhifeng Wu, Yuelin Han, Shaolei Ren
The intense computational demands of AI, especially large foundation models, are driving a global boom in data centers. These facilities bring both tangible benefits and potential…
Predicting Public Health Impacts of Electricity Usage
Yejia Liu, Zhifeng Wu, Pengfei Li +1
The electric power sector is a leading source of air pollutant emissions, impacting the public health of nearly every community. Although regulatory measures have reduced air pollu…
Learning-Augmented Online Control for Decarbonizing Water Infrastructures
Jianyi Yang, Pengfei Li, Tongxin Li +2
Water infrastructures are essential for drinking water supply, irrigation, fire protection, and other critical applications. However, water pumping systems, which are key to transp…
A Water Efficiency Dataset for African Data Centers
Noah Shumba, Opelo Tshekiso, Pengfei Li +2
Artificial intelligence (AI) computing and data centers consume large amounts of freshwater, both directly for cooling and indirectly for electricity generation. While most attenti…