Not a conspiracy theorist, but wait that really sounds effective. Just few months back I was wondering why were big datacenter companies not trying to sway the public that the water usage is low per query or whatever metric.

There will be protests and cases related to water usage of AI, but none of them would hold any ground. And winning the water case would just make the argument in their favour.

Which begs the question of who was the source of the water/electricity FUD?

Flood the zone.

> Just few months back

Just a few months more, and the public was still often making Epstein references.