15 August 2026

OpenAI's 612-megawatt facility, ranked among the world's biggest AI data centres, abandons plan to cool it with recycled water as ...

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OpenAI has decided to discontinue its plans for implementing recycled water cooling at its Sydney data center due to regulatory hurdles that hindered the necessary pipeline's construction.

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