1. Yeah, let’s talk Microsoft Teams instead. I suspect that’s worse than AI training… 2. The article I’d write starts with incumbent uses of water. Residential

1. Yeah, let’s talk Microsoft Teams instead. I suspect that’s worse than AI training… 2. The article I’d write starts with incumbent uses of water. Residential use, especially in dry areas, has been pressured to progressively increase efficiency. It does take energy to treat and pump and treat water again. But some people always wonder if they’re saving water just so another part of town can add residents or sell water to a new data center that runs Microsoft Teams. Evaporative cooling shouldn’t pay the (embedded) full price of treating sewage. For example, in California, that’s charged at a fraction. But it still covers the cost of treatment, the administration of water rights, and pumping. And that’s enough for corporations to choose to put AI training in other places.