# blog.andymasley.com

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.

## Ingested articles

- [[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