As Dave notes, this is very bad. If you’d like to know more about data centers and resource management from someone who actually studies this stuff for a living, may I humbly suggest this, instead news.vt.edu/articles/202...

There's a power/water trade-off in data center resource allocationLandon Marston, who studies sustainable water resources management, is in the middle of the growing challenge of power and water resource allocation for data centers.news.vt.eduDave Karpf

I'm reading the "environmentalists are wrong about data centers" piece from the NYT and ohmygoditssofuckingbad. Apparently, so long as you're punching left, they'll just let you say any goddamn thing you please... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/o...