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State awards $126 million for first-of-its-kind housing project
UC Riverside has been awarded state funding for a first-of-its-kind housing project that will see more than 1,500 beds added to its on-campus housing inventory. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that will provide $126 million in state money for a student residence complex to be built on the UCR campus in partnership with the Riverside Community College District, or RCCD.
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AI creates new environmental injustices, but there’s a fix
AI is creating inequitable environmental consequences in the form of water consumption to keep servers cool and air pollution from power plants that supply the electricity. But the tech companies could distribute their processing loads to avoid environmental injustices, UCR study finds.
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Scientists reveal the huge water costs of ChatGPT and other AI programs

A University of California, Riverside, study revealed for the first time the water footprint from running ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence, or AI, queries that rely on computations done in racks of servers in warehouse-sized data processing centers operated by Google and other tech giants. Run some 20 to 50 queries and roughly a half liter, around 17 ounces, of fresh water from our overtaxed reservoirs is consumed. The study was led by Shoalei Ren, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at UCR’s Bourns College of Engineering.

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