The talk of a new data center brings home how artificial intelligence is wrongly changing our future. Put another way, artificial intelligence and its data centers may soon use about 1% of our national water supply by 2028. In California, one of the hotbeds of data center hysteria is in the Imperial Valley. A lack of information on data centers only fuels the hysteria and a perception that he is in Big Tech’s pocket (which he is). If a new data center would prompt the Sacramento Municipal Utility District to buy more expensive power, that data center should pay the full freight.