What Do You Stand For? What Do You Fall For?

Yesterday, I got an email from Jesse Lebron of Storible letting me know that over a third of all data centres and projected new hyperscale sites are "in high or extremely high water-stress areas." Arizona alone has 57 data centres in extremely water-stressed areas. If you're a regular reader of mine, you know that I've written extensively about the ongoing harms of generative AI. And I've been talking to quite a few people who also share a negative personal view of genAI, but have told me that they're essentially forced to use it at their job or they'll be fired—that they are specifically tracked to ensure they meet a genAI quota. The CEO of Coinbase went on record saying any employee that didn't adopt AI tools was fired. Let me give you a real-world example of this. Kim Crawley is a cybersecurity researcher whose work has been published by O'Reilly Media. She lost her livelihood because as a former OPIT professor, she refused to subject her MSc students to Gen AI. She is now running…