It’s certainly not manifesting in measurable consequences for the politicians who support the projects.
‘No one can accuse New York of fearing innovation,” New York Governor Kathy Hochul said at the ceremony in which she signed the nation’s first-ever statewide moratorium on data center construction. “But that said . . . for a lot of [Americans], the specter of unchecked AI brings up fear, anxiety, a lot of worry.”
A policymaker should probably check whether those fears are valid before catering to them. Fortunately, most of the more salacious claims are not.
Data centers do consume water, but they do not arrest the hydrologic cycle or permanently alter its chemical composition, as a cavalcade of unscrupulous ...
