 But it is increasingly clear that the model for developing and deploying digital technologies is entangled in the crisis. The government of Kenya has promised jobs in artificial intelligence as the future, with the University of Nairobi promising to offer a master's degree in artificial intelligence. But AI is a massive consumer of freshwater that is exhausting energy grids even in the developed world, a product that might be reaching the end of its hype cycle, just as people in the global majority are being encouraged to embrace it.