The Oct. 10 op-ed warning about water use by AI centers states that by 2028 those centers across the entire United States will use as much as 124 billion liters of water per year, but it does not put that amount into any context. Well, that is about 100,000 acre-feet per year. The State Water Project export pumps in the Delta can pump that amount in a week.
One district in the eastern part of the state had such a long, thin middle section it was nicknamed the swan. Another was known as the Jesus district because you had to walk on water to get from one side to the other. Yet another, in LA's San Fernando Valley, was memorably described by the Stanford law professor Pam Karlan as a ghastly-looking, multi-headed, insect-like polygon with 385 sides.