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When the Expert in the Room Disagrees With the Room
A Bluesky user's scientist friend ranked agriculture above AI data centers on water harm — and the gap between expert priority and public alarm is now the story.
The AI environmental conversation arrived at its current pitch through accumulation, not evidence. Each new data point — energy projections, water consumption figures, carbon estimates — has been read as confirmation of a story that was already settled before the numbers arrived. When a Bluesky post described asking a water regulation specialist where AI data centers fit in her list of concerns and she pointed to agriculture instead [5], the response in the thread reflected something closer to relief than revision. The expert's answer did not displace the prior concern;…