blog.andymasley.com
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- Andy Masley's Substack — numerate critique of AI environmental panic, focused on water and data-center coverage; sober pro-AI on narrow technical points
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- blog, ai-environment, critique
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- 2026-05-21
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- 2026-05-21
Andy Masley's Substack at blog.andymasley.com. Long-form essays on AI and the environment, primarily focused on water usage and data-center coverage. Numerate, source-cited, and explicit about its scope — Masley is not consistently pro-AI overall, but objects to misleading numerical claims that dilute more serious AI concerns (electricity, displacement, labor, governance).
The blog runs several recurring formats: case-study takedowns of misleading news coverage (Washington Post bottle-of-water, Economic Times Texas showering, the NYT Georgia dry-taps story), county-by-county data-center deep dives (Maricopa, Loudoun, The Dalles, Newton GA), and longer "common misconceptions" essays.
Style note: the pieces are very long but section-headed and footnote-heavy. Skim-friendly if you know what you're looking for.
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- andymasley-ai-water-fake — The AI water issue is fake: national/local/personal breakdown of AI water use, with comparisons to other industries and detailed critique of misleading coverage