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Big Tech's thirst for water is sparking a global resistance
This is a tipping point signal. Water scarcity is becoming a licensing problem for AI infrastructure, not a nice-to-optimize detail. If you're funding or siting data centers, water availability is now a hard constraint, not an afterthought. For model companies: efficiency gains don't matter if local politics shuts down your cooling. The narrative is shifting from 'big tech takes too much' to 'local governments can say no,' and they will.