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Credit: Čokoládový Festival.

This weekend, from 17-19 November, Brno’s chocolate lovers will find everything their hearts desire at the Brno Chocolate Festival, hosted in Pavilion G1 of the Brno Exhibition Centre.

The 2023 Chocolate Festival, organised by the ChrisEvents agency, is designed for all chocolate and confectionery lovers who want to enjoy, discover, and maybe learn how to cook with chocolate. It includes a culinary show and stalls selling chocolate delicacies, such as chocolate beer, chocolate kebabs, fruit with chocolate, and much more that can’t easily be prepared at home.

There will be four main visitor sections:

     • a culinary show, where chefs of famous restaurants will present their imaginative recipes

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is having an unintended impact on a vital resource – water. As AI systems expand their reach, they demand colossal computing power housed in sprawling data centres.

These data centres, in turn, require vast quantities of water for cooling, adding to concerns about the environmental sustainability of AI growth.

Microsoft’s Soaring Water Consumption

In a shocking revelation, Microsoft, one of the tech industry’s biggest companies, consumed more than 2,500 Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of water in its data centres in the previous year alone.

This figure, as disclosed in Microsoft’s latest environmental report, has sent ripples of concern throughout the tech world. The numbers reflect a 34% increase in water consumption between 2021…