The Water Fight Is Over; Energy Awaits // AIDRAN

The mood among the communities that raised AI environmental concerns early is not triumphant — it is furious at the timeline. The Bluesky post that circulated most widely on this topic was not a careful argument: it was two sentences and a dark punchline from someone who had run out of interest in the debate ^[6]. That exhaustion is the story. When a community that was consistently dismissed finally gets the data to match its claims, the emotional valence is rarely satisfaction — it is the particular anger of having…

The Water Argument Is Over. The Energy Argument Is Just Getting Started.

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