Tom Cowap CC-BY-SA 4.0 Three years ago in Flooding The Zone With Shit , my first post on the AI bubble, I wrote: My immediate reaction to...
Majority of US’s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land
Guardian analysis finds facilities to be built in some of the driest areas as outcry grows over water needed to power AI
Data center guzzled 30 million gallons of water and nobody noticed for months
Can AI save us from the AI industry’s endless thirst for water? Outlook not so good.
This Is How the AI Bubble Could Burst
Podcast Episode · Plain English with Derek Thompson · 09/23/2025 · 59m
You’re Thinking About AI and Water All Wrong
Fears about AI data centers’ water use have exploded. Experts say the reality is far more complicated than people think.
Cory Doctorow Predicts the AI Bubble Will Burst | The Tyee
The writer sees a shaky future for a technology that has many of us in a lather.
Why ‘Flooding the Zone’ Works for Trump - Dame Magazine
Trump’s allies openly described a strategy to overwhelm the press with simultaneous crises. The structure of modern journalism makes it work
Empire of AI - Water Footprint Changes — Karen Hao
I have issued two changes to my book regarding the water footprint of data centers:
AI safety and the data center backlash
Planting a flag for AI safety as a place where we won’t abjectly bullshit you
Andrew Orlowski on Twitter / X
By far the shrewdest and most entertaining analyst of the AI bubble is Georg Zoeller, ex Facebook. Re-reading his DeepSeek reaction piece from 18 months, which holds up well. It was all so predictable: banning open source, the Red Menace, pivot to military. What has really… pic.twitter.com/38dX7vcrkC— Andrew Orlowski (@AndrewOrlowski) July 5, 2026
The State Of The $1.7 Trillion AI Bubble: The End Of Thinking
Writing is thinking and thinking is understanding. Like understanding that the AI bubble has been around for a long time and that it's better to call it the data bubble.
AI Aqueducts: Speed. Confidence. And Contaminants.
The AI Pipeline Has No Way to Judge the Science It Uses
