Water consumption doesn't matter much (or at all) near these places:
 
1. Colombia river basin
2. Mississippi River
3. The entire east coast from Virgina, south to Florida
 
There's no incentive to conserve water in these areas, access to fresh water is limitless. half to three quarters of data centers are in areas with no problems with water access; the hysterics around water use is being weaponized, rather than rationalized. If you have a data center in California or Arizona, water is more of an issue, but they often use more efficient cooling loops there.

It sounds like they're permanently destroying water or something. Many datacenters line the colombia river, which is both an excellent hydroelectric and limitless water supply, and then the other big cluster is in the SE near Virgina and into the Carolinas, which are frequently flooding,
 
764.6 billion liters of water is about the same water usage as NYC uses in 200 days
 
764.6 billion liters of water is about 8 days worth of water used by California agriculture

I can't imagine much of a solution beyond just making it giggle and say, "that's too grown up for me!" to most questions. Having a plush toy take on questions like "is capitalism good?" or "is Trump a grifter?" is just doomed from the start.

To that end, I wonder if there is (or ought to be) a different word for when everybody is in on the joke. Or is that just 'meme stock?' Nobody is buying these particular stocks in the hopes of future dividends justifying the purchase price. Whereas in bubbles like Worldcom, or early Railroads, they did. Then there's Tesla which seems to be some of both.

Even Sam Altman can't save openAI with his Jedi Hype Master Skills when they keep falling futher and further behind. Google and Anthropic are presenting serious challenges and while OpenAI is still in the top 10, the rest of the pack is quickly catching up, whatever secret sauce they had before, it has been discovered and they have yet to find something uniquely defining that nobody else has. Raise after raise eventually isn't going to make much of a media splash and they'll lose their influence there, too. December isn't over yet, maybe they still have a compelling product up their sleeve, but this latest media blitz is a lot more subdued than last year's Dec blitz.

How to spot a jackass: they actually think saying "dihydrogen monoxide" is clever and funny.

about as much as having a former WWF executive with a single-digit IQ serving as Education Secy.

I'm sure glad I have a real education in the 80's.

Have US tech companies considered following the laws in the countries in which they wish to operate?

Who needs school when we have TikTok?

Now that they've gotten rid of this woke DEI nonsense, they can spend 10x as much on some more wholesome and less-indoctrinating educational materials! /s

I'll be surprised if I find out EOs have any authority outside the executive branch of the federal government. Otherwise a presnit could just unilaterally ban abortion, change federal, state, and locals laws and tax rates, disband Congress...

So join ANTIFAI - anti-f*-ai.

Though it might get you labeled as a ter'ist. Especially if you don't buy the products they're pushing.

I don't think it's possible to make a less nuanced and less coherent argument than this. At best, you're telling on yourself.

Because our is temporarily better. But with Trump's race to the bottom, we're quickly becoming Russia. So.... yeah.

We might have cable tv, if that was the cheapest way to get internet in our house. I literally do not know, only one device is plugged into a coax cable in our entire house and that's the modem. I wouldn't even know where to look on my tv to see if they still come with coax connectors on the back, it hangs on the wall and there's a power plug, that's it.