Separate from the ad hominem, it's not acceptable for someone with a science degree from MIT and a strong background in AI to take a guess at units and then confidently write that a building is using 1000x as much water as an entire city in what's presented as an authoritative work without doing a very basic sanity check first. I attribute zero malice to Hao. She was also super kind and respectful in engaging with this and I'm left with a very positive impression. I think this was an honest mistake, and have read and admired a lot of her other reporting. But this is a bigger mistake than just "guessing the wrong units" and we should be able to talk about how thousands of readers now believe a data center uses 1000x as much water as a city, and how it is actually very bad that so many people got such a wildly off impression of an important issue.

la previsione, il libro sarà cambiato in una dichiarazione del tipo "in un solo anno, il data center potrebbe utilizzare più di TRE VOLTE la quantità d'acqua consumata dall'intera popolazione di Cerrilos, una città di 88.000 persone, in un intero MESE" e tutti continueranno a credere a ciò in cui credevano prima.