

yeah, I think the whole “water” argument really dilutes the case against data centers.
On a serious note, the argument works for areas that already struggle to supply enough water for consumers. Otherwise, we should be focusing more on the power stress to the grid, and the domino effect on supply chain of hardware cost increases that it’s happening across many industries. It started with GPUs, now it’s CPU, storage, networking equipment, and other components.
If these prices are too high for a couple of years, we’ll start seeing generalized price increases as companies need to pass along the costs to consumers.










You don’t need that assumption. Your assumption can just be “the person and vessel (or a point in the vessel, like its center of mass) don’t diverge significantly over time”.
Then, if you treat velocity as a vector and compute the person’s average velocity vector over time, you’ll have a pretty close estimation to the vessel’s velocity vector.
After all, if those two average vectors (vessel’s and person’s) were to differ much, they would end up in different locations.
The average basically zeroes the vector for each lap the person does, so the remainder must be the vessel’s.