Volkswagen funded a university research program to formally determine whether sheep are better than lawnmowers at maintaining a solar farm. Loki examines what it costs an institution to relearn, expensively and with a research department attached, something that was never actually forgotten—just no longer profitable to remember.

Amazon's sustainability report says AI data centers are a rounding error against national water consumption. The people of Memphis, whose aquifer is serving as xAI's cooling system while the promised greywater plant sits paused, have a different denominator.