If the press insists on covering this, it should be in terms of competing economic interests bidding on water, not rapacious ecovillains.
We could use more media discourse on the current political realities of water use and potential improved economic structure though.
The difference being that those opposing view LLMs as an inherently negative technology, and thus it is a waste of resources for something that is actively detrimental to society. Whereas golf courses are just golf, so the negative aspect is merely the resource usage.
Eh. I agree to your post in principle, but golf courses do have sociopolitical effects based on land values surrounding them. Original point stands though. That effect pales in comparison to the vitriol some have against LLMs.
the venn diagram of people supporting golf courses but objecting to data centers has a much smaller overlap than you think