I have you tagged as “researches before blindly commenting”, thank you for staying true to that and the information.

I think the anti-AI protest should not focus so much on one issue, the water consumption was something that often filled my feed. This comparison to beef is kinda weird and ill-intended, as it takes the worst part (the biggest number) of one and compares it to datacenters saying “see, it does not matter, there are worse things”. In my opinion the discussion should be more about “do we even want datacenters including all the risks and problems coming with them”. And as you nicely put, there are more disadvantages with that and we should be careful.