Not just water, but also resources: electricity, RAM and Flash memory, other things being over-consumed by the AI development explosion. This war doesn’t have geographic or national boundaries, its the (heavily funded) AI companies vs everyone else.

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    Paolo Bacigalupi is to the climate crisis what William Gibson is to cyberpunk. Stories like The Water Knife and The Tamarisk Hunter feeling a lot closer to reality everyday. But then again, fighting over access to water is a tale as old as time.

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      If you look around the globe, there are all kinds of wars about all kinds of things all the time - you really have to live in a very small bubble to experience “lasting peace” of any duration.