71% of Americans oppose AI data center construction in their area according to a new Gallup poll. Maine just became the first state to ban them entirely. The industry’s response tells you everything about how rattled they are.
AI data centers consumed billions of gallons of drinking water last year in communities that had no say in the decision. This is the water story the industry hopes you never do the math on.
The same compression that turned a refrigerator-sized computer into a fingernail-sized chip will happen to AI data centers. Someone needs to ask why we are draining aquifers for infrastructure that will be obsolete before the saguaro grows its first arm.