Captain Merge

@bigredmatt1011 A hundred reasons exist. We would have to review each site and requirements for a data center. The developers have already done that

The US has millions of square feet of empty factories and warehouses. Why aren’t the data centers real estate developers looking at using already zoned industrial areas in places like Detroit or other rust belt cities with vacant industrial spaces?

This City of Denver spent $9 million dollars to buy this building for the homeless 1,200+ days later ZERO people are housed. The building remains boarded up and vacant over 3 years later The City bought the building and planned to sell it to a California based nonprofit for only $10, they deal never went through The project now just sits here vacant. $9 million dollars wasted for nothing, zero people housed This is Democrat leadership in action. The city has also admitted the building will sit empty for at least another 12 months At some point we have to start considering this criminal and hold politicians accountable

For 20 years, a $6 knob that takes one hour to 3D print has been grounding Black Hawk helicopters four times a month, and the contractor responsible won't sell us the part or the IP rights to fix it ourselves. So instead, American taxpayers have been paying $40,000 every single time to replace the entire system, multiplied by four times a month, for two decades. That is NOT a procurement problem, that is a shakedown, and it is exactly why right to repair has to be in this year's NDAA.

🚨 WTF?! DHS Sec. Markwayne Mullin confirms 50% PERCENT of *ALL* murders in deep-blue Fairfax County, Virginia were committed by illegal aliens Gov. Abigail Spanberger and Democrat officials are RUINING their own state! "Roughly 50% of the murders in Fairfax, Virginia, the perps are illegal, shouldn't even be in the country. You know, that's just in Fairfax!" "You make Virginia a sanctuary, you encourage more illegal activities." "This individual right here that we just arrested. This is his third time to be deported. He's self-deported once. He was deported again. He's snuck back across."

The Mayor of Charlotte is demanding people stop posting this reminder of the lovely innocent Iryna Zarutska butchered by a savage on Charlotte public transit. He was on probation by a liberal activist judge.

Gov. Roy Cooper released convicted killer Calvin "50-Cal" Locklear early on May 14, 2021 Nineteen days later, he killed again, fatally shooting 33-year-old Justin Ellis Jackson at his Fayetteville home Follow: @CooperReleased

@TBradleyNC You should know the power of the media. Cooper is leading because the media’s mantra is TDS. Most low IQ voters fall into their trap

😳 How is Roy Cooper still competitive? He handed the soft-on-crime gavel to our courts. Now: High crime. Deadly stabbings. Repeat offenders walking free. Voters still aren’t connecting the dots. Charlotte reelected Vi Lyles after Iryna Zarutska was brutally murdered on the light rail by a career criminal who never should’ve been on the street. This is how Mayberry dies.

@DataRepublican He has said the center will reclaim water. He also said they create the power they need using natural gas. In fact, the center will act as a buffer if the grid becomes unstable.

LONG RANT ALERT: I've worked in Big Tech my entire career. So let me say something that will confuse people: Big Tech is not left-wing. The default posture of Silicon Valley is center-right and technocratic. My first Big Tech job was with Amazon in 2005. I heard plenty of stories about Jeff Bezos rolling his eyes at Obama's antics. This is not a secret among people who've been inside. And yet Big Tech was among the loudest cheerleaders for BLM and DEI. How? I'll tell you how, though it requires me to be honest about something personal. I am diagnosed ASD. You know the experience: you make a factual point in a room. Ten people tell you you're evil. The "logical" structure of ASD leads you to start accepting you might be broken, not the room. You're more susceptible to believing you're the problem than believing consensus is wrong. I've watched this play out across Big Tech repeatedly. Not a prescription I give out lightly, and I acknowledge it might be projection. But I've seen too many brilliant engineers fold under social pressure that had no factual basis. So Big Tech leans right, but gets captured easily by DEI virtue signaling, and pays enormous amounts to prove it. Mark Zuckerberg... believe it or not, another closet conservative I've heard many rumors about — donated $400 million to influence 2020 election administration. In 2024, he explicitly committed to neutrality and spent nothing comparable. He learned. Slowly. But he learned. Here's where it gets complicated on China. Big Tech says: build data centers in America, not China. But I've worked inside China directly. I have never, not once, witnessed a Big Tech company put real protections on their IP in Chinese partnerships. ASD-adjacent minds tend to extend trust where cultures signal openness. China does this masterfully. So when anti-data-center people question whether "built in America" actually protects anything... they're not wrong. The rhetoric exceeds the practice. Now to Box Elder specifically. The Stratos Hyperscale project — 7.5 gigawatts, 40,000 acres, approved by Box Elder County Commission this month — is developed by O'Leary Digital. Kevin O'Leary, who along with Elon Musk and Marc Andreessen has "come out" as a staunch conservative. I respect that. It takes something to do that publicly. But I'm going to hold them accountable the same way I'd hold anyone else. O'Leary and others point to Arabella Advisors money funding data center opposition. That's true and I'll get into it. But they need to be honest that the vast majority of opposition in communities like Box Elder is organic conservative opposition... people worried about the Great Salt Lake, about water, about being near Utah's largest earthquake epicenter. Dismissing them by pointing to dark money is a way of avoiding the harder conversation. Here's what I actually want from people with the power to put 7.5 gigawatts in the Utah desert: If you have the capital and political leverage to pull this off, you have the capital and leverage to finance power plants. You have the leverage to fund serious water reclamation infrastructure. And you have the leverage to institutionally push back on the NGO network that is genuinely coordinating against you; groups like Mormon Women for Ethical Government, which I've written on at length, and which does not represent organic conservative sentiment despite the branding. Go all the way or don't make the argument. And one more thing: if a company wants to be a customer of these data centers, they need to commit to real, auditable IP protections regarding China. If O'Leary wants to make the "America first" argument for data centers, make it mean something.

@WhyTheHexNot @kevinolearytv Your post adds nothing to the conversation.

@CaptainMerge @kevinolearytv Ohhhhh thank you for clarifying. Most people thought they had to be that big because they store paper files and would create “millions of jobs” in the clerical industry. You are truly a wealth of knowledge.

Why is there suddenly such an aggressive push against American data centers and AI infrastructure? After seeing a major spike in coordinated opposition campaigns around our Utah projects, we conducted a digital audit and traced a large amount of the activity back to an organization called Alliance for a Better Utah, which has been pushing misinformation throughout Box Elder County about our data center developments. What’s even more concerning is where the funding appears to originate. After reviewing IRS Form 990 filings and tracing the network behind it, the money appears tied to Chinese linked funding channels connected through an organization called Arabella. Think about the incentive, if China is racing to dominate AI and compute capacity, why wouldn’t they want to slow American infrastructure down?

@Hockeymom50 @kevinolearytv They are training AI platforms. These AI platforms will get bigger and better by using data centers. Whoever leads will own space, have the strongest military and be able to crack government security.

@CaptainMerge @kevinolearytv That's their partial use. They're gobbling up people's farms and using eminent domain to take people's land to build these monstrosities that will just spy on us in the end

@DojasFart @kevinolearytv Your bank account resides in a data center. When you pay by clicking your phone - data center. Instagram - data center again. Amazon 2 hour delivery- you guessed it data center

@CaptainMerge @kevinolearytv They are collecting data to be used against us not for us.

@kevinolearytv In short, the purpose of a data center is to provide a safe, highly reliable, and hyper-connected environment so that the digital services we rely on daily can run without interruption.

Most of the comments here show the author’s lack of knowledge. Data centers house the massive storage drives (SSDs and HDDs) that hold the world's digital information. Every time you backup photos to the cloud, stream a movie, or access a company’s database, you are retrieving data stored inside a data center.

@kevinolearytv Data centers ensure that applications stay online 24/7/365.

@kevinolearytv Beyond just holding data, they run the high-performance servers that perform complex calculations. This includes running enterprise software, processing financial transactions, rendering graphics, and training artificial intelligence models.

🔥 Honest question for folks: What’s your perception of crime in Charlotte, NC vs Miami, FL? Charlotte seems to make national news for crime constantly — shootings, stabbings, carjackings. Does it feel so much more out of control in NC? Roy Cooper’s soft-on-crime policies (early releases, weak prosecutions, revolving door justice) vs Ron DeSantis’ tough-on-crime approach in Florida — is that the difference?

@wilmingtonstan Most dem voters pull the lever like lemmings. “D” good, “R” bad

Why do NC voters support conservative ideas but still trust Democrats to deliver them? A new poll has Roy Cooper up 11 over Michael Whatley—even as strong majorities back school choice, lower taxes, property tax limits, and health‑care competition. Voters want Republican outcomes, but think Democrats will get it done. Full breakdown in today’s Wilmington Standard update. Link is in the comments—check it out now and repost so other North Carolinians see it before November. #ncpol

🚨WHAT THE HELL?!!! A North Carolina TEACHER AND FOOTBALL COACH, Kendrick Gonzalez lost his entire career... ..because his childhood "best friend" got arrested for a crime... and told the cops HE was Kendrick Gonzalez. The cops pulled up the DMV photo, saw it wasn't him, and they used his name ANYWAY. Now the REAL Kendrick Gonzalez, a North Carolina teacher and football coach, has a "criminal record" for a crime that happened almost TWO HOURS from where he lives... that was committed by his FRIEND He found out he had a "criminal record" when HR called him during football practice, in front of his kids and staff and they FIRED HIM. He lost his entire career. The City of Charlotte just filed a motion to dismiss his lawsuit because: "a DMV photo not matching the suspect's face isn't "conclusive" proof it's the wrong man..." ...sorry what???? So... anyone can ruin your life by giving the cops YOUR name instead of their real name? THIS IS INSANE!!!!