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Texas is planning on running “4,000 linear miles of what amounts to extension cords on steroids throughout Texas” The reasoning is, there are areas that need more power for things like Data Centers. But instead of building the plants where the power is needed, they plan on running massive extension cords The project is part of a major grid upgrade managed by the Public Utility Commission of Texas The purpose is for oil and gas operations and data centers
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Texas is planning on running “4,000 linear miles of what amounts to extension cords on steroids throughout Texas” The reasoning is, there are areas that need more power for things like Data Centers. But instead of building the plants where the power is needed, they plan on running massive extension cords The project is part of a major grid upgrade managed by the Public Utility Commission of Texas The purpose is for oil and gas operations and data centers

Wall Street Apes

100,883 views • 4 months ago

Jensen Huang is warning that China is winning the AI energy race. $NVDA $AMD $IREN $NBIS 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 The US is generations ahead on chips, but that doesn't matter if there is no energy to power them. Europe is completely irrelevant in AI and doomed already. It takes 10 years to build a new data center in Germany, as there is no power, and they are turning off nuclear power plants. The US won't let China win, so we could be at the beginning stages of an energy boom. The question is which stocks will benefit from this boom the most?
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Jensen Huang is warning that China is winning the AI energy race. $NVDA $AMD $IREN $NBIS 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 The US is generations ahead on chips, but that doesn't matter if there is no energy to power them. Europe is completely irrelevant in AI and doomed already. It takes 10 years to build a new data center in Germany, as there is no power, and they are turning off nuclear power plants. The US won't let China win, so we could be at the beginning stages of an energy boom. The question is which stocks will benefit from this boom the most?

Ray Myers

84,029 views • 8 months ago

ABC News investigated and found more than 3,000 data centers are already operating nationwide At least 1,000 more planned Residents near data centers are seeing much as 50%+ increases on their electric bills “ABC7 has also been covering public meetings over proposed data centers and there are questions about water use and the environment. The i-team in ABC News studied this private company's data center map and found that there are at least 4,302 data center projects across the U.S. Large and small. Of those, 3,038 are currently operational with another 1,203 either under construction or plan for construction. 61 have acquired land. In Illinois, there are 164 operating data centers with another 81 planned for construction. The largest state project plan is in Yorkville. It would be 2 gigawatts and according to the ABC7 data team would use the same energy that would power approximately 1.7 million homes more than every home in the city of Chicago.”
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ABC News investigated and found more than 3,000 data centers are already operating nationwide At least 1,000 more planned Residents near data centers are seeing much as 50%+ increases on their electric bills “ABC7 has also been covering public meetings over proposed data centers and there are questions about water use and the environment. The i-team in ABC News studied this private company's data center map and found that there are at least 4,302 data center projects across the U.S. Large and small. Of those, 3,038 are currently operational with another 1,203 either under construction or plan for construction. 61 have acquired land. In Illinois, there are 164 operating data centers with another 81 planned for construction. The largest state project plan is in Yorkville. It would be 2 gigawatts and according to the ABC7 data team would use the same energy that would power approximately 1.7 million homes more than every home in the city of Chicago.”

Wall Street Apes

152,195 views • 6 months ago

Lutnick: If you are building a data center, you were going to give power to the grid and drive the energy costs of everybody around that data center lower. Trump is going to bring lower energy prices. Everywhere that a big company builds a big data center, they are going to lower the price of energy in the entire area around it.
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Lutnick: If you are building a data center, you were going to give power to the grid and drive the energy costs of everybody around that data center lower. Trump is going to bring lower energy prices. Everywhere that a big company builds a big data center, they are going to lower the price of energy in the entire area around it.

Acyn

494,248 views • 8 months ago

Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey on the Future of U.S. Energy: “There are so many things the United States needs to do on the energy front if we’re going to be competitive globally.” “The good news is, it looks like this administration is going to allow nuclear power to come roaring back.” “I think that for things like factories and data centers… they should just have on-premises power generation.” “They should have small nuclear plants, that way they’re not degrading everyone else’s grid.” “The other problem is the grid has become a political vector. In California, most of our energy cost is not the cost of making the energy… it’s all the political taxes that have been placed on top of it.” “Energy generation needs to become like a lathe or a screwdriver… just another tool at your factory that you use to get the job done.”
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Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey on the Future of U.S. Energy: “There are so many things the United States needs to do on the energy front if we’re going to be competitive globally.” “The good news is, it looks like this administration is going to allow nuclear power to come roaring back.” “I think that for things like factories and data centers… they should just have on-premises power generation.” “They should have small nuclear plants, that way they’re not degrading everyone else’s grid.” “The other problem is the grid has become a political vector. In California, most of our energy cost is not the cost of making the energy… it’s all the political taxes that have been placed on top of it.” “Energy generation needs to become like a lathe or a screwdriver… just another tool at your factory that you use to get the job done.”

Anduril Appreciator

81,998 views • 7 months ago

🇺🇸 CHARLIE KIRK LEGACY: BIBLE SALES ARE GROWING AND YOUNG AMERICANS ARE GOING BACK TO CHURCH America is trying to pull off a challenging combo move: beat everyone in the AI race and lower your electric bill at the same time. Sec. Howard Lutnick explains the Trump administration pitch to get 2 goals: more AI data centers and cheaper energy. If massive tech companies want to build power hungry data centers, they do not just take energy, they add energy too, according to Lutnick’s plan. That means more electricity on the grid, cheaper power nearby, and fewer locals feeling like big tech showed up, sucked resources dry, and left them with higher bills. AI growth, but with receipts. "If you're building a data center, you're going to give power to the grid and drive the energy costs of everybody around that data center lower. Trump is going to bring lower energy prices everywhere that a big tech company builds a big data center. Win the AI race, but drive down electricity costs so the people who live near those data centers are winners too." Source: Howard Lutnick
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🇺🇸 CHARLIE KIRK LEGACY: BIBLE SALES ARE GROWING AND YOUNG AMERICANS ARE GOING BACK TO CHURCH America is trying to pull off a challenging combo move: beat everyone in the AI race and lower your electric bill at the same time. Sec. Howard Lutnick explains the Trump administration pitch to get 2 goals: more AI data centers and cheaper energy. If massive tech companies want to build power hungry data centers, they do not just take energy, they add energy too, according to Lutnick’s plan. That means more electricity on the grid, cheaper power nearby, and fewer locals feeling like big tech showed up, sucked resources dry, and left them with higher bills. AI growth, but with receipts. "If you're building a data center, you're going to give power to the grid and drive the energy costs of everybody around that data center lower. Trump is going to bring lower energy prices everywhere that a big tech company builds a big data center. Win the AI race, but drive down electricity costs so the people who live near those data centers are winners too." Source: Howard Lutnick

Mario Nawfal

13,831 views • 8 months ago

Chris Camillo explains how Bloom Energy is solving AI data center energy usage problems… “ $BE is one of the only companies in the world that has a method to essentially bring almost an infinite amount of energy to these data centers." And we won't get into all the technology, but they are now working with hyperscalers and they are a resource for energy that will allow a data center to get ramped up quicker. "So, even though it costs a little bit more money today to put an energy cell from Bloom, an energy box from Bloom, which are energy cells, it essentially takes things like natural gas, but instead of burning the natural gas, there is a chemical process that turns that natural gas into energy for the data center."
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Chris Camillo explains how Bloom Energy is solving AI data center energy usage problems… “ $BE is one of the only companies in the world that has a method to essentially bring almost an infinite amount of energy to these data centers." And we won't get into all the technology, but they are now working with hyperscalers and they are a resource for energy that will allow a data center to get ramped up quicker. "So, even though it costs a little bit more money today to put an energy cell from Bloom, an energy box from Bloom, which are energy cells, it essentially takes things like natural gas, but instead of burning the natural gas, there is a chemical process that turns that natural gas into energy for the data center."

The Iced Coffee Hour

277,703 views • 3 months ago

Here’s the thing about the data centers that not enough people are talking about: They are being built on top of farmland. THEY ARE REPLACING OUR FOOD SUPPLY WITH MASS SURVEILLANCE CENTERS. Humans cannot survive without food or water. Two things data centers are taking away. So why are they doing this? Because the billionaire class knows AI is going to replace millions of human jobs so they are deliberately reducing our food supply. Their plan is to let millions of us die to usher in their AI techno-capitalist dystopia. That is why the fight against these data centers is an existential fight for humanity’s survival.
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Here’s the thing about the data centers that not enough people are talking about: They are being built on top of farmland. THEY ARE REPLACING OUR FOOD SUPPLY WITH MASS SURVEILLANCE CENTERS. Humans cannot survive without food or water. Two things data centers are taking away. So why are they doing this? Because the billionaire class knows AI is going to replace millions of human jobs so they are deliberately reducing our food supply. Their plan is to let millions of us die to usher in their AI techno-capitalist dystopia. That is why the fight against these data centers is an existential fight for humanity’s survival.

Power to the People ☭🕊

87,842 views • 3 months ago

ASML CEO on Elon Musk's Data Centers in space and Terafab: "I think you need a certain amount of data centers and they will be in space, they will be on the earth. I think the discussion about data centers in space is to address another potential bottleneck in the ecosystem, which is energy. I think the discussion around putting data center in space is there because if you do that, the energy consumption or the energy availability will be there, about trying to solve another potential big issue, which is energy for data center. I think the Terafab is an example of a major fab project."
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ASML CEO on Elon Musk's Data Centers in space and Terafab: "I think you need a certain amount of data centers and they will be in space, they will be on the earth. I think the discussion about data centers in space is to address another potential bottleneck in the ecosystem, which is energy. I think the discussion around putting data center in space is there because if you do that, the energy consumption or the energy availability will be there, about trying to solve another potential big issue, which is energy for data center. I think the Terafab is an example of a major fab project."

DogeDesigner

48,139 views • 2 months ago

I think the fact is there are only going to be four or five of these companies that are able to raise the billions required to build the infrastructure to support these models. It's a global competition, and particularly against the Chinese right now because they're trying to beat us on AI, because the country with the best AI is gonna win all the wars. That's what's gonna happen. I think at the end of the day you want diversification in your portfolio, not just one stack. For me, I'm playing the picks and shovels. I'm building energy because you need energy for this stuff, and I'm building data centers. Now, there are different things, but right now we need more electrical power in this country beyond just data centers. We just need power because we got a booming economy.
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I think the fact is there are only going to be four or five of these companies that are able to raise the billions required to build the infrastructure to support these models. It's a global competition, and particularly against the Chinese right now because they're trying to beat us on AI, because the country with the best AI is gonna win all the wars. That's what's gonna happen. I think at the end of the day you want diversification in your portfolio, not just one stack. For me, I'm playing the picks and shovels. I'm building energy because you need energy for this stuff, and I'm building data centers. Now, there are different things, but right now we need more electrical power in this country beyond just data centers. We just need power because we got a booming economy.

Kevin O'Leary aka Mr. Wonderful

13,143 views • 3 months ago

Sam Altman in a new interview says Orbital Data Centers are not going to matter at scale this decade: “I honestly think the idea, with the current landscape of putting data centers in space is ridiculous. If you do the very rough math of launch costs relative to the cost of power on earth and to say nothing how you are going to fix a broken GPU in space— they do break a lot unfortunately— we are not there yet. There will be a time, space is great for a lot of things, Orbital Data Centers are not something that is going to matter at scale this decade.” This clip isn’t going to age well for Sam.
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Sam Altman in a new interview says Orbital Data Centers are not going to matter at scale this decade: “I honestly think the idea, with the current landscape of putting data centers in space is ridiculous. If you do the very rough math of launch costs relative to the cost of power on earth and to say nothing how you are going to fix a broken GPU in space— they do break a lot unfortunately— we are not there yet. There will be a time, space is great for a lot of things, Orbital Data Centers are not something that is going to matter at scale this decade.” This clip isn’t going to age well for Sam.

Nic Cruz Patane

72,344 views • 6 months ago

New Jersey residents are noticing construction crews surveying and replacing lines to upgrade power infrastructure for Data Centers Residents are paying for these upgrades These lines being updated are for a data center that’s not even close, it’s across the bridge 20 minutes away This is happening across Fairless Hills, Bristol, Middletown, and surrounding Bucks County spots due to multiple data center projects New Jersey already has 80+ data centers with more planned so these updates are happening everywhere Residents in these areas are already paying some of the power costs and grid upgrades related to data centers Welcome to corporate socialism. Money is taken from you to pay for the data centers infrastructure, but they won’t share any of the profits with you It’s called socialized losses and privatized profits
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New Jersey residents are noticing construction crews surveying and replacing lines to upgrade power infrastructure for Data Centers Residents are paying for these upgrades These lines being updated are for a data center that’s not even close, it’s across the bridge 20 minutes away This is happening across Fairless Hills, Bristol, Middletown, and surrounding Bucks County spots due to multiple data center projects New Jersey already has 80+ data centers with more planned so these updates are happening everywhere Residents in these areas are already paying some of the power costs and grid upgrades related to data centers Welcome to corporate socialism. Money is taken from you to pay for the data centers infrastructure, but they won’t share any of the profits with you It’s called socialized losses and privatized profits

Wall Street Apes

59,239 views • 3 months ago

TARIQ ALI: TRUMP’S THREATS AGAINST IRAN🇮🇷 ARE PART OF THE PLAN AGAINST CHINA🇨🇳 ‘The main purpose for destabilising Iran is to get concessions from them. And the concessions are not simply on nuclear reactors. I think there’s a more serious plan to which is to make it impossible for Iran as a sovereign state to negotiate and sell oil and gas directly to China.’ ‘The US would like to be the power that determines to whom energy is sold and under what conditions. It’s part of their big plan to surround and lay siege to China…they are concerned and worried about the development of China as a major economic power and they want to control it. So in my opinion, the threats against Iran are more to do with that than anything else.’ -Tariq Ali on the potential coming US-Israeli war on Iran
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TARIQ ALI: TRUMP’S THREATS AGAINST IRAN🇮🇷 ARE PART OF THE PLAN AGAINST CHINA🇨🇳 ‘The main purpose for destabilising Iran is to get concessions from them. And the concessions are not simply on nuclear reactors. I think there’s a more serious plan to which is to make it impossible for Iran as a sovereign state to negotiate and sell oil and gas directly to China.’ ‘The US would like to be the power that determines to whom energy is sold and under what conditions. It’s part of their big plan to surround and lay siege to China…they are concerned and worried about the development of China as a major economic power and they want to control it. So in my opinion, the threats against Iran are more to do with that than anything else.’ -Tariq Ali on the potential coming US-Israeli war on Iran

Afshin Rattansi

302,540 views • 1 year ago

🚨 TEACHERS WERE TOLD TO TURN OFF THE LIGHTS FOR AI DATA CENTERS — AND THE STUDENTS WERE LEFT IN THE DARK This is the future they promised? Loudoun County, Virginia... one of the biggest data center hubs on Earth, welcomed 37 data centers. Then the AI boom arrived. The servers came online. The power demand exploded. Now schools are reportedly being told to cut energy use. Turn off lights. Unplug electronics. Conserve wherever possible. The facilities consuming enormous amounts of electricity keep expanding. The classrooms are being told to use less. Officials say it's about rising energy costs. But that's not the question many people are asking. The question is why the burden always seems to fall on everyone else. The data centers get built. The power demand rises. The electricity bills go up. And somehow the teachers and students are the ones being asked to make sacrifices. They said AI would transform society. Maybe it already is. Because every year it feels like the same story. The data centers need more power. The data centers need more water. The data centers need more land. The data centers keep growing. And ordinary people are told to adapt. First they built the data centers. Now the schools are turning off the lights. Who should get the electricity first: students or AI servers?
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🚨 TEACHERS WERE TOLD TO TURN OFF THE LIGHTS FOR AI DATA CENTERS — AND THE STUDENTS WERE LEFT IN THE DARK This is the future they promised? Loudoun County, Virginia... one of the biggest data center hubs on Earth, welcomed 37 data centers. Then the AI boom arrived. The servers came online. The power demand exploded. Now schools are reportedly being told to cut energy use. Turn off lights. Unplug electronics. Conserve wherever possible. The facilities consuming enormous amounts of electricity keep expanding. The classrooms are being told to use less. Officials say it's about rising energy costs. But that's not the question many people are asking. The question is why the burden always seems to fall on everyone else. The data centers get built. The power demand rises. The electricity bills go up. And somehow the teachers and students are the ones being asked to make sacrifices. They said AI would transform society. Maybe it already is. Because every year it feels like the same story. The data centers need more power. The data centers need more water. The data centers need more land. The data centers keep growing. And ordinary people are told to adapt. First they built the data centers. Now the schools are turning off the lights. Who should get the electricity first: students or AI servers?

HustleBitch

23,460 views • 1 month ago

🚨 President Trump just DROPPED this line on data centers: "What it means for a community is jobs and lots of money and lowers taxes!" "And the data centers now are mandated by me that they build their own electricity, so they're not taking it from the grid!" "It's going to lower the electricals because they're building electricity, and the extra, as an example, we talked about this one, I'm very proud of it. It was my idea." "They're going to build their own electric producing facility. And that electricity that they have left over is going to the grid. It's going to lower the cost of electricity."
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🚨 President Trump just DROPPED this line on data centers: "What it means for a community is jobs and lots of money and lowers taxes!" "And the data centers now are mandated by me that they build their own electricity, so they're not taking it from the grid!" "It's going to lower the electricals because they're building electricity, and the extra, as an example, we talked about this one, I'm very proud of it. It was my idea." "They're going to build their own electric producing facility. And that electricity that they have left over is going to the grid. It's going to lower the cost of electricity."

Eric Daugherty

75,577 views • 7 days ago

David Friedberg: Michael Burry’s Datacenter Math is Wrong “I actually think Michael Burberry's got this wrong.” “What Michael Burry is saying is that all of these hyperscalers have extended their depreciation schedule or the useful life of their data centers by roughly 2x, which cuts the operating costs in half when they report it in earnings. And so it's making their earnings inflate.” “So he's claiming they're cooking the books. Google first made this change in Q1 of 2021, where they said the servers are now going from 3 to 4 years. Separately in 2021, Google took networking equipment from 3 to 5 years. And then in 2023, they took it from 5 to 6 years.” “And so this is a result of this effort where they went in and did an analysis. So what happened?” “What happened in the data centers is that the data centers transitioned from being primarily data storage and data transfer systems, where you would use hard drives and RAM and memory to store data and then transmit it back out, to being data processing centers because of the AI boom.” “So as AI became more important in the data center, more of the dollars that are going into data centers were allocated towards chips from data storage, which initially was hard drives.” “And then suddenly, when you put these processors in to process the data to do AI, the majority of the spend and the majority of the energy is going towards the processors.” “I made some calls and I checked around with some other friends, and everyone says the same thing: that these 7-8 year old TPUs and GPUs that are sitting in the data centers are still being used and they're being used at 100% utilization.” “So that actually justifies and validates the depreciation schedule being much longer versus shorter.”
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David Friedberg: Michael Burry’s Datacenter Math is Wrong “I actually think Michael Burberry's got this wrong.” “What Michael Burry is saying is that all of these hyperscalers have extended their depreciation schedule or the useful life of their data centers by roughly 2x, which cuts the operating costs in half when they report it in earnings. And so it's making their earnings inflate.” “So he's claiming they're cooking the books. Google first made this change in Q1 of 2021, where they said the servers are now going from 3 to 4 years. Separately in 2021, Google took networking equipment from 3 to 5 years. And then in 2023, they took it from 5 to 6 years.” “And so this is a result of this effort where they went in and did an analysis. So what happened?” “What happened in the data centers is that the data centers transitioned from being primarily data storage and data transfer systems, where you would use hard drives and RAM and memory to store data and then transmit it back out, to being data processing centers because of the AI boom.” “So as AI became more important in the data center, more of the dollars that are going into data centers were allocated towards chips from data storage, which initially was hard drives.” “And then suddenly, when you put these processors in to process the data to do AI, the majority of the spend and the majority of the energy is going towards the processors.” “I made some calls and I checked around with some other friends, and everyone says the same thing: that these 7-8 year old TPUs and GPUs that are sitting in the data centers are still being used and they're being used at 100% utilization.” “So that actually justifies and validates the depreciation schedule being much longer versus shorter.”

The All-In Podcast

304,297 views • 9 months ago

In the next 15 years, data centers are expected to add an additional $160 billion to grid costs in the US Estimate say electricity rates for average households will spike by as much as 70% Data centers are projected to triple their share of US electricity demand in the next few years The main driver is the explosive growth of data centers built by Big Tech companies like Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Google, OpenAI and more to power artificial intelligence Places like Northern Virginia already has over 200 data centers with massive new ones planned. Utilities are striking secret proprietary deals with Big Tech companies. These are hidden behind NDAs that shift much of the infrastructure costs onto regular residential customers Just in the PJM energy market of 13 states covering 65 million people, data centers were responsible for 63% of last year’s record 800% spike in capacity prices (This is INSANE) Residential customers in places like Virginia and Louisiana are being forced to subsidize billions in new power plants and grid upgrades for data centers. An Examples of this is in Louisiana, Meta’s data center deal leaves the public potentially on the hook for half or more of a $3–4 billion power plant Again, without major policy changes, average household electricity bills could rise by up to 70% over the next 15 years due to data center demand. There is only one real way we can stop this, we must create a separate customer class for data centers Maryland and Oregon have already passed laws doing this Forces data centers to pay for the specific infrastructure they need instead of spreading the costs to everyone else. More states need to do the same Ban secret sweetheart deals Require full public disclosure of all contracts between utilities and Big Tech Prohibit deals where data centers pay below the actual cost of service Make data centers pay the full cost of new power plants and grid upgrades Change regulations so utilities cannot socialize the cost of data-center-driven infrastructure to residential and small business ratepayers This needs to be done immediately
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In the next 15 years, data centers are expected to add an additional $160 billion to grid costs in the US Estimate say electricity rates for average households will spike by as much as 70% Data centers are projected to triple their share of US electricity demand in the next few years The main driver is the explosive growth of data centers built by Big Tech companies like Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Google, OpenAI and more to power artificial intelligence Places like Northern Virginia already has over 200 data centers with massive new ones planned. Utilities are striking secret proprietary deals with Big Tech companies. These are hidden behind NDAs that shift much of the infrastructure costs onto regular residential customers Just in the PJM energy market of 13 states covering 65 million people, data centers were responsible for 63% of last year’s record 800% spike in capacity prices (This is INSANE) Residential customers in places like Virginia and Louisiana are being forced to subsidize billions in new power plants and grid upgrades for data centers. An Examples of this is in Louisiana, Meta’s data center deal leaves the public potentially on the hook for half or more of a $3–4 billion power plant Again, without major policy changes, average household electricity bills could rise by up to 70% over the next 15 years due to data center demand. There is only one real way we can stop this, we must create a separate customer class for data centers Maryland and Oregon have already passed laws doing this Forces data centers to pay for the specific infrastructure they need instead of spreading the costs to everyone else. More states need to do the same Ban secret sweetheart deals Require full public disclosure of all contracts between utilities and Big Tech Prohibit deals where data centers pay below the actual cost of service Make data centers pay the full cost of new power plants and grid upgrades Change regulations so utilities cannot socialize the cost of data-center-driven infrastructure to residential and small business ratepayers This needs to be done immediately

Wall Street Apes

57,720 views • 3 months ago

.Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 on the data center build-out and how America is holding itself back: "What's happening literally in the US right now county by county with the ability to build data centers is profoundly destructive." "And that's entirely domestic. And a large number of politicians are feeding that hysteria as much as they possibly can." "A lot of our leading public figures, and a lot of intellectuals, and a lot of the press, and a lot of the analysts, and the rest of it, it's just this kind of hyper paranoia about building data centers and the consequences of data centers." "This completely fake meme about water use, which is just factually not true, which is just running wild through the public discussion that somehow these data centers are basically destroying all the water, which is this completely insane idea. That factor is [such] a bigger factor holding us back than anything involving external trade." "External trade is the thing that's easy to talk about. It's all of our internal issues that are much, much more important." With Navin Girishankar CSIS Economic Security and Technology Department
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.Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 on the data center build-out and how America is holding itself back: "What's happening literally in the US right now county by county with the ability to build data centers is profoundly destructive." "And that's entirely domestic. And a large number of politicians are feeding that hysteria as much as they possibly can." "A lot of our leading public figures, and a lot of intellectuals, and a lot of the press, and a lot of the analysts, and the rest of it, it's just this kind of hyper paranoia about building data centers and the consequences of data centers." "This completely fake meme about water use, which is just factually not true, which is just running wild through the public discussion that somehow these data centers are basically destroying all the water, which is this completely insane idea. That factor is [such] a bigger factor holding us back than anything involving external trade." "External trade is the thing that's easy to talk about. It's all of our internal issues that are much, much more important." With Navin Girishankar CSIS Economic Security and Technology Department

a16z

130,412 views • 2 months ago

I started digging into the rapid expansion of hyperscale data centers and energy projects in Ohio and what I found raised serious questions about transparency, public oversight, and who these deals are really benefiting. JobsOhio was created in 2011 and funded through the state’s liquor enterprise revenue, billions generated from public assets. Yet it operates as a private nonprofit that is not subject to traditional open-records laws. Today, Ohio is being marketed as “deployment ready” for hyperscale data centers, massive facilities that require constant, industrial-scale electricity and water usage. To support that demand, new energy infrastructure is being proposed across the state, including advanced nuclear projects like Oklo in Pike County. Policy changes like Ohio Senate Bill 52 shifted how energy siting decisions are handled at the local level, while utilities such as American Electric Power have proposed new tariffs and grid upgrades to support the surge in data center demand. Communities across Ohio are raising concerns about farmland loss, water usage, electricity costs, and the lack of early public input before these deals are shaped. Regardless of where you stand on development, one thing should be non-negotiable: Transparency. Accountability. And a real voice for the people of Ohio. Public resources and infrastructure should serve the public first. Decisions that shape our land, our water, and our power grid should not happen behind closed doors. If you care about your community, your property, and your future, now is the time to start asking questions and paying attention.
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I started digging into the rapid expansion of hyperscale data centers and energy projects in Ohio and what I found raised serious questions about transparency, public oversight, and who these deals are really benefiting. JobsOhio was created in 2011 and funded through the state’s liquor enterprise revenue, billions generated from public assets. Yet it operates as a private nonprofit that is not subject to traditional open-records laws. Today, Ohio is being marketed as “deployment ready” for hyperscale data centers, massive facilities that require constant, industrial-scale electricity and water usage. To support that demand, new energy infrastructure is being proposed across the state, including advanced nuclear projects like Oklo in Pike County. Policy changes like Ohio Senate Bill 52 shifted how energy siting decisions are handled at the local level, while utilities such as American Electric Power have proposed new tariffs and grid upgrades to support the surge in data center demand. Communities across Ohio are raising concerns about farmland loss, water usage, electricity costs, and the lack of early public input before these deals are shaped. Regardless of where you stand on development, one thing should be non-negotiable: Transparency. Accountability. And a real voice for the people of Ohio. Public resources and infrastructure should serve the public first. Decisions that shape our land, our water, and our power grid should not happen behind closed doors. If you care about your community, your property, and your future, now is the time to start asking questions and paying attention.

Kim Georgeton for Lt. Governor of Ohio

14,671 views • 6 months ago

"Lest we be overconfident in Silicon Valley, let's remember a small group of activists shut down supersonic technology, and all nuclear energy in this country. It's a disaster." Brad Gerstner explains why a data center moratorium would be "horrific" for America: "All of our GDP growth is coming from the fact that we are building data centers and driving productivity improvements in the economy." "A data center moratorium would thrust us straight into a recession and high unemployment." "Secondly, it would cede the entire global game to China. Overnight, we would lose to China in the global AI race. Which is not just about AI, it's about economic security, jobs, and national security."
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"Lest we be overconfident in Silicon Valley, let's remember a small group of activists shut down supersonic technology, and all nuclear energy in this country. It's a disaster." Brad Gerstner explains why a data center moratorium would be "horrific" for America: "All of our GDP growth is coming from the fact that we are building data centers and driving productivity improvements in the economy." "A data center moratorium would thrust us straight into a recession and high unemployment." "Secondly, it would cede the entire global game to China. Overnight, we would lose to China in the global AI race. Which is not just about AI, it's about economic security, jobs, and national security."

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182,785 views • 3 months ago