AI has come for Arizona’s water
TL;DR
A hulking gray giant rises from the desert. Inside, engineers create the force behind our phones and computers and appliances, our streaming services and search engines and chatbots and vibe-coded apps and websites. The complex is simultaneously massive and squat, dwarfed by the mountains that surround it, and it is endless. I drive past one building, and then another, and then the ground opens up where construction crews have dug up the earth so a third building can rise.
Nauti's Take
For small teams, the first check before any infrastructure or vendor decision is concrete: verify the operator, cooling system, water source, and actual consumption against primary data. Until the report provides those figures, it is a useful warning about resource and cost exposure, yet too thin to support an investment or AI deployment decision.
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