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AI’s hidden thirst: the water and power cost of data centres
Data centres worldwide consume vast amounts of electricity and water, potentially straining resources. With AI’s growth, the footprint is set to balloon. Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar Pic credit: Wikimedia Commons Last month, a UK government agency called on residents to help mitigate the country’s water crisis. Among the Environment Agency’s suggestions on how people could save water were expected common-sense ones such as turning off taps and fixing leaking pipes. And then the
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The cost of going green
As brick kilns close for cleaner air, a race for jobs
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As brick kilns close for cleaner air, a race for jobs
With no safety nets as brick kilns shut shop around New Delhi to meet emission norms, workers return to villages to find new work
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Women kiln workers risk health, pregnancies in race to reduce debt
Migrant women workers fall through maternity care cracks
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Overworked, undernourished: Women kiln workers risk health, pregnancies in race to reduce debt
Migrant workers are entitled to public health care services but a lack of identity cards is causing issues.
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Braving the heat to bake bricks
Soaring temperatures take toll on firemen migrating to brick kilns
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'We work in burning kilns, but this is hotter'
A first-hand account of life in a New Delhi shelter home during a
heatwave
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Field Notes From A Brick Kiln
Phasing out of traditional clay bricks for eco-friendly fly ash triggers fears in vast unorganised sector of loss of livelihood Anuradha...
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