Clojurians Log v2

I just finished the chapter in Empire of AI where they talk about data centers from Microsoft and Google in Chile and Uruguay, it says one data center uses as much drinkable water as fifty thousand households. This in impoverished communities which are under a years long historic drought. Climate change is making drinkable water a scarce resource in a lot of places. South America, southern USA, Australia, middle east, parts of Asia, south Africa, half all seen intense or are seeing intense droughts. It's unequally distributed, some places do still have an abundance of fresh water, but those are not the only places where data centers are being built. I wouldn't read the golf course comparison as "oh in that case it's fine". Maintaining a manicured lawn the size of a golf course in warm and dry climes is a stupidly wasteful use of resources. You really have to look at the particulars, both for energy and for water. Where is it going to come from? How much stress will it put on public infrastructure? How will others on the same grid be impacted? How will it affect the local water table? Etc. Clearly in many cases this does not add up.