NEW: Bloomberg, Washington Post, The New York Times, and several other mainstream outlets have all published stories stoking fears about AI data centers’ water use. One man with a calculator is single-handedly debunking their claims.
Full Story by Blake Dodge and Harris Sockel 👇

NEW IN PIRATE WIRES: Sagnik Basu, who immigrated to the U.S. a decade ago, delivers a complete timeline of the Somali fraud scandal (plus a similar Somali fraud case now surfacing in Maine), and the case for breaking up ethnic enclaves nationwide — including his own. Full story 👇

The stage is set for a tight race in California’s 11th District between State Senator Scott Wiener and Saikat Chakrabarti — Stripe’s second founding engineer and AOC’s campaign manager turned Chief of Staff. What happens next could determine the future of Democratic Party. 👇

Last week, UAE’s Hope probe returned fascinating images of Mars’ Deimos thicc moon which “suggest it’s not a captured asteroid.” Read @bsg.bsky.social's most recent round up of evocative and excellent news in tech, space, science, and medicine here — https://www.piratewires.com/p/white-pill-003