2035 AD: "Residents over the age of 65 and people with expensive disabilities who insist on drinking water will be arrested and charged with grand larceny and conspiring to commit criminal damage to a holy corporation."
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Good grief, we are really in trouble, and they want to build these data centres in the UK, we are going to end up like the planet in Dune before too long.
Do you have a link to this please, I am asking as I am collating links to articles on my website on Ai and the environment, and can include this.
Thanks
Paul
Thanks, much appreciated
For reference this is my site entry for this
@zleap @Richard_Littler Here are some links that are at least adjacent, if not the one screen capped:
https://techiegamers.com/texas-data-centers-quietly-draining-water/
https://www.sacurrent.com/news/san-antonio-data-centers-guzzled-463-million-gallons-of-water-as-area-faced-drought-38116670
https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2025-07-25/texas-is-still-in-drought-and-ai-data-centers-are-quietly-guzzling-up-water/