AI's Hidden Water Bill // AIDRAN

When a municipal AI summit can run without a single session on energy or water — as Seattle Councilmember Debora Juarez described of a GeekWire event she attended — the coverage gap is no longer just a media failure. It is becoming structural: the forums that shape local AI procurement and zoning decisions are inheriting assumptions baked by an optimistic press cycle. The heat island research and the water consumption estimates are peer-tracked and circulating among researchers, but they have not cleared the…

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