The environmental critique of AI has accumulated genuine research support [3] and broad intuitive agreement [5], but it has also settled into a frame — per-query carbon and water cost — that is almost perfectly calibrated to avoid the decisions that matter. Query-level accounting makes the problem feel like a consumer choice issue. The infrastructure decisions shaping the next decade of AI energy and water demand are being made by county commissions, utility boards, and state legislators who are not waiting for the query-guilt conversation to resolve itself.