According to the Book of Ezekiel (40-48), in the Bible, an angel shows Ezekiel the new temple in Jerusalem after its rebirth, the third temple.
It is to be the size of God's dwelling place so that he can return to it.
From the right side of the temple, a trickle of water begins to gush out, soon turning into a stream, a torrent, and finally a river.
The river flows out of God's house and into the Dead Sea, bringing life all throughout the Judaean Desert and wherever it reaches.
Big Tech's data centers spring up everywhere around the world, especially in desert areas. Inside them are kept AI algorithms that are increasingly seen
as the last salvation for humanity. The consumption of resources by these data centers is enormous, water being among the main ones used to cool the system.
Their immense use of water drastically worsens the drought condition of the surrounding region, drying out rivers and altering their ecosystems, all to the
detriment of the inhabitants of the surrounding cities and small businesses whose water use is often rationed to meet the needs of tech companies.
Temple 3.1 reimagines the temple of Ezekiel immersed in the 21st century. A huge warehouse that, like a mirage, rises in the middle of the desert.
All around, biological life ceases to exist to make way for artificial life. From the temple flows a flooding river made of 0s and 1s,
data to feed other nascent and hungry algorithms.
Also in 2019, Google began construction of a 6500 m² data center in Mesa, Arizona, in the Sonoran Desert, adding to the existing Meta with 21400 m²
planned for 2026, the four data centers of AWS, plus the ones from Apple, Comarch and NTT.
Google's data center has been allowed, by the Arizona Municipal Water Users Association, to use up to 15 million liters of water per day.
Mesa receives half of its water supply from the Colorado River, already prone to frequent droughts due to the desert climate and climate change.
The city's average water consumption is about 100 billion gallons, estimated to reach 250 in the near future.
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