Pick a few strong arguments, don’t go with a sack.

Use news (yes, anecdotal) too. Some places have already been fucked over.

Water Behind the Watts: The Hidden Risk of Powering Data Centers https://www.ceres.org/resources/reports/water-behind-the-watts-the-hidden-risk-of-powering-data-centers

The carbon and water footprints of data centers and what this could mean for artificial intelligence - ScienceDirect https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389925002788

Data Centers Are So Power Hungry That Cow Manure Fuel Is Now on the Table https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/animals-ecology/data-centers-are-so-power-hungry-that-cow-manure-fuel-is-now-on-the-table/

5 ways data centers endanger their local communities and the country as a whole https://theconversation.com/5-ways-data-centers-endanger-their-local-communities-and-the-country-as-a-whole-282348

https://www.wired.com/story/new-gas-powered-data-centers-could-emit-more-greenhouse-gases-than-entire-nations/

https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/extracting-profits-from-the-public-how-utility-ratepayers-are-paying-for-big-techs-power/

Extracting Profits from the Public: How Utility Ratepayers Are Paying for Big Tech’s Power – Environmental and Energy Law Program https://www.eesi.org/articles/view/data-centers-and-water-consumption

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/07/the-futile-future-of-the-gigawatt-datacenter-by-nicholas-weaver/

https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/cooling/ai-cooling-demands-push-data-centers-into-deep-water

https://cee.illinois.edu/news/AIs-Challenging-Waters