Baby thrown out with bathwater?
Can't see the forest due to the trees?
Seems a little odd that "AI" (artificial by design), uses huge amounts of water for cooling, gobbles up so much electricity that the data centres , perhaps AI related? … need to consume 2-3x current grd capacity need own "portable nuke" power plants…. ummm
Consider drilling a hole in bottom of a dam wall, instead of putting a syphon hose in from the top, sucking & getting all the head wanted or needed.
But have ya considered why all this "data" centres are "required" in the first place? Like how much data needs to be stored? why?