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Data centres will also be required to minimise water usage.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
Severn Trent said measures people could take to reduce their usage included:
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
“I know my usage is a lot lower,” Hamby said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
Technology companies have faced a wave of backlash from locals concerned about power usage and the strain on their local grids.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
It may have been Galileo, in Salusbury’s translations, who made Digby’s usage respectable.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Token usages are how developers measure and pay for AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
What are some unique butter techniques or usages that some may not be familiar with?
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2024
The Northern Quarter is a "lively, vibrant" area, but as "Manchester is evolving", its "usages are changing", which means the area can now be considered mixed use, the judge said.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2024
Other similarly off-putting usages prompted think tanks and op-ed writers to warn that deepfakes were on the cusp of sparking a war or manipulating an election.
From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2023
“I felt strange. Because their methods were different. They were learning usages that my group hadn’t learned yet, so we felt stupid.”
From "The Giver" by Lois Lowry
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