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Three Bucknell experts — Professor Brian King, computer science, Xin Faculty Fellow in Computer Science & Engineering and faculty fellow for the Dominguez Center for Data Science; Benjamin Hayes, program director of watershed sciences & engineering in The Ecology Center; and Professor Lily Li, mechanical engineering, and the Jane W. Griffith Faculty Fellow — say in this story that the debate over the proliferation of data centers reflects a complicated reality: AI’s seemingly effortless answers require enormous amounts of electricity, computing equipment, and potentially water.