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But first, we have Heated Zone, Emily Atkin, to talk about the latest news in climate change.

Welcome back to Fast Politics, Emily.

Yay, thanks for having me.

Yay, I'm excited to have you because you are great and you are tirelessly chronicling the fuckery.

Let's start with data centers because that feels like the scariest new way to fuck up the climate.

Yeah, I've been so into this like reporting topic.

I wouldn't say that I'm been covering it tirelessly.

I am quite tired. But this is, this is a subject that

sort of demands tireless reporting. So yeah, happy to start with there. You know what I think

that I think most people get wrong about the data center conversation is that most people, I think, think that the biggest water problem is

from cooling the data centers because, you know, they need these like huge buildings that are

full of like very hot computer processors need water to cool them down. And it is a huge problem,

right? But one of the more surprising things that I've

learned recently in my reporting is that the vast majority of the water use, the reason why, you know,

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