Cheyenne and its residents will soon be inevitably remade as a mysteriously unclaimed — but enormous, and enormously expensive — data center begins construction in the small Wyoming city. It’s estimated that the installation will consume twice the electrical power presently pulled down by the entire state of Wyoming. Without elaborate recycling and efficiency measures, it could consume as much as 124 billion gallons of water per year.

One wonders how that is going to be squared with the perennial water scarcity, rights, and related ranching issues natural to Western states.

A curiously parallel set of circumstances is played out in “Eddington,” Ari Aster’s new film, which forces viewers to grapple with a host of tragicomic plotlines played out in a spiraling COVID-era narrative drive

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