Majority of US’s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land
TL;DR
Guardian analysis finds facilities to be built in some of the driest areas as outcry grows over water needed to power AI A record-shattering drought has racked much of the US. But the artificial intelligence industry is pushing ahead regardless, with the majority of planned datacenters set to be built in drought-ridden locations, a Guardian analysis has found.
Nauti's Take
AI builders love talking about scale, but infrastructure does not scale in a vacuum. If you plan models, agents, and products, water, grid load, and site selection are architecture constraints now.
Ignore them, and GPU capacity turns into a local legitimacy problem fast.
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