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The Machine Is Thirsty. And It's Drinking Your Town Dry.
This is what progress looks like when nobody asks who pays for it. Let me ask you something nobody in the tech industry wants you to ask. Every time you type a question into ChatGPT, every time you ask an AI assistant to draft an email or explain your medication or summarize the news; where does the energy for that come from? Where does the water go? Because it goes somewhere. It always goes somewhere. And right now, it's going into the ground underneath communities that had

Michael Routhier
Jun 47 min read
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