If AI is so great, ask it to design an AI data center that uses little electricity or water.
I don’t due electrical power design so I wouldn’t know if it was doing it right or giving me bullshit.
Due to the expansion of the Internet we’ve had network centers up and running (Bunches of computers in racks with local storage!) from the 1990s on all over the country and no one has much complained. Drive to Dulles Airport and all down the toll road you’re flanked by data centers. At one time early 2000s 70% of all (The World!) Internet passed through those NoVa data centers. Not the case now. Now use the scary words Artificial Intelligence and all is panic! Those data centers are not fundamentally different from proposed A.I. centers.
Data centers ought to be required to bring their own power - come with a power plant particularly so in rural areas. Of course there are areas where they shouldn’t go. They can even sell any excess power into the local grid. Power plants are built in rural areas all the time and very few complain about them stealing water for cooling. In fact many people want them there. They improve the local economy. I am sure they can be designed so their cooling is internal and recycled after going through cooling towers back through the plant. In fact I know it to be true. Of course if not required or watched the center backers can do half assed job of the design to save money and build an unsafe environmental mess. However if the new A.I. economy is as lucrative as people say it will be. There should be plenty of money to do it right.