AI’s Water Problem Is Smaller Than You Think
AI's water problem is smaller than you've been told. Water's problem is far bigger — and, for the first time, solvable.
Sometime in the last two years, a very old argument about water got a very new participant.
For most of human history, the fight over who gets the river has been between farmers, cities, and fish. Then, in a string of town-hall meetings across Arizona, Georgia, Virginia, and the flat brown counties of central Texas, a new applicant started showing up on the utility docket. It doesn't grow anything. It doesn't employ many people. It arrives as a set of engineering drawings for a windowless building the size of several football fields, and it asks the local water authority a question that sounds simple and isn't: how many million gallons a day can you commit to us, and can you commit them on the hottest day of the year?
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