Yeah the whole data center environmental panic seemed astroturfed to me. I took a look at the numbers and it’s not that bad. If you telework one day instead of commuting you make up for over a week of heavy AI use, and the water use is on par with an average golf course.

There are noise issues in some places. But the panic is excessive. Like nuts.

Maybe environmental panics are to the left what moral panics about stuff like trans people are to the right.