Watts If? A Benchmark for Counterfactual Reasoning About the AI Data Center Buildout
arXiv:2610.21397v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An AI data center is committed years before it draws a watt: a few discrete choices (grid or on-site gas, evaporative or dry cooling, which county to file in) fix its capital, water draw, and carbon path, and LLMs are now asked to help screen them with no test of whether they track what each commitment rules out. We introduce DCBench-440, with two arms reported separately: 200 generative questions over STRIPS worlds for five US deal archetypes, wi…