a $100 billion article of faith being propped up by the OPEC mafia because they see the incredibly wasteful and inefficient data centers needed for running techbro AI as an opportunity to continue pumping petroleum.
and since these data centers consume water, theyre gambling on turning this an investment into convoluted schemes of diverting water from water-rich countries like the USA, to their deserts.
China just killed that with a scripty kid and a couple of computers, sort to speak… 🧵