AlphaEarth Foundations is built on a straightforward institutional claim: that AI applied to satellite data can in ways that benefit agriculture, conservation, and climate science . What the institutional framing does not address is the energy and water load generated by the compute required to train and run those models. The Minnesota Green Party's post is the clearest articulation yet of who absorbs that load — residents near proposed hyperscale data centers who face higher energy bills and diminished water supplies while the…