Archive - Andy Masley

A plug for a tool I made to show how little most current AI chatbots add to your emissions and water use, with citations

Take this and share it, you don't need to mention me

Jun 11 • Andy Masley

A simple trick to fix the data center debate

Remove the status quo bias by asking "would we spend this much in tax revenue to avoid the externalities of the data center?"

Jun 6 • Andy Masley

Why I think panic about local impacts of data centers is just a panic

A request for counter examples

Jun 4 • Andy Masley

May 2026

I think I figured out exactly how the “AI uses a bottle of water per prompt” miscalculation happened

Looks like it's roughly 50-250x too high

May 25 • Andy Masley

A history of the data center panic - part 1

Pre-ChatGPT and the creation of common wisdom

May 20 • Andy Masley

A crash course on US air pollution

Data centers and air pollution - part 1

May 19 • Andy Masley

Let's not compare data center heat exhaust to nuclear bombs

Why dropping hundreds of nuclear bombs on Washington DC every day is pretty normal

May 11 • Andy Masley

Data center land use issues are fake

We have plenty of land, data centers provide more revenue per unit area than any other building, and we should have way less farmland

May 2 • Andy Masley

April 2026

To be clear, I do understand how sound works

Replying to a criticism of my last post

Apr 24 • Andy Masley

Contra Benn Jordan, data center (and all) sub-audible infrasound issues are fake

One of the most popular videos made about data centers ever is a complete moment-by-moment disaster

Apr 19 • Andy Masley

Training AI models doesn't emit that much

If we just make reasonable comparisons instead of crazy ones

Apr 12 • Andy Masley

What's blocking Waymo in DC and how can we fix it?

The very late DDOT report is only part of the story

Apr 3 • Andy Masley

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