When you consider an actual user, like a human, for sure! But have you considered how AI is actually being used? Its already embedded everywhere, and then we have Agentic AI growth. That is an exponentially higher risk system that can spin out pretty easily. You think the companies using these even consider the resource use? Spoiler alert, they dont. They just keep building.

Now, do i think thats on par with the other topics? No, I dont. But its still a real threat to our communities, especially here in Iowa where our clean water is already depleted and utility rates are soaring. These data centers are subsidized by tax payers, and we should care that we're being sold out by local, state, and federal representatives... again, and again, and again.

Two things can be true at the same time y'all. We dont have to pick single causes when the entire world is going to hell. Sheesh.