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In America’s frontier days, anyone diverting a town’s creek water to their private, profiteering purpose was not merely considered wrong, but guilty of Biblical-level immorality.That was BBE, however – “Before Billionaire Ethics.” Today, a cohort of über-rich hucksters – including Bezos, Altman, Musk, and Zuckerberg – have unilaterally decreed that they are above such moral fussiness, entitled to exploit the scarce water resources of millions of Americans, especially in rural areas.Fund this fightThey’re not irrigating crops, but continuously spritzing hundreds of thousands of the super-computers they’re “planting” in the hyperscale AI data centers being built across the country. These are [...]
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