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.

預測，書籍將被改寫為類似於「在一年內，數據中心可能使用的水量超過整個Cerrilos市（人口88,000人）在整整一個月內消耗的水量的三倍」的陳述，而每個人仍然會繼續相信他們之前所相信的。