You downplay how useful the technology is, if it's that bad why not just let it fail? It's because you know that it isn't actually that bad, and that it's getting better really fast.

You are however the ones who are not protesting beef production, while likely eating beef or tree nuts, both of which make data center water use look like a baby sipping a lake through a straw.

It's not whataboutism, it's calling you out for being a a hypocrite.

As for Vancouver, a place I am intimately familiar with, Hundreds of people are still stupid as fuck.

Here's an article completely debunking the water use argument for the Vancouver datacenter, which won't use evaporative cooling technology. https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/05/25/Questions-AI-Data-Centres-Vancouver/

Summer water restrictions of level 2 and 3 are completely fucking normal even without the data centers, and only ban... Surprise surprise, LAWN WATERING! because it's so fucking wasteful.

The Turbines at the xAI datacenter are stupid, and a reasonable jurisdiction wouldn't allow them to exist. The fact that the government isn't stopping them when they are illegally installed is not a datacenter issue, it's a government issue. Most datacenters aren't pulling that kind of shit. Elon Musk is just an asshole.