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@jackprandelli That’s awesome….and a good thing. Drive those needed grid upgrades. Aging infrastructure used to be a left rallying cry.

The US Department of Energy just mapped every data center in America. This is what the AI power grid looks like. The dots are data centers. Yellow = operating. Orange = under construction. White = planned. The lines are high-voltage transmission 735kV, 500kV, 345kV the arteries that move electrons from generators to compute loads. Look at the density along the East Coast, Northern Virginia to the Carolinas. Then look at Texas. Then Northern California. The largest circles on this map represent facilities demanding over 5,000 MW of power. Single campuses pulling more electricity than mid-sized cities. Northern Virginia is so dense the dots overlap. Data centers cluster on transmission corridors. Not because land is cheap because power is available. When the line is full, the next data center goes somewhere else. The grid is the bottleneck. Every orange dot is a power purchase agreement being negotiated right now. Every white dot is a utility commission filing, a gas plant approval, a pipeline capacity booking. The $66.8 bn NextEra-Dominion deal, Meta's 10 new gas plants in Louisiana, the Alaska LNG FID push they all trace back to maps that look like this. AI infrastructure is built in substations, on transmission corridors, and at the end of gas pipelines. Link in the comments, to see my stocks 👇

@chuckdawg95 @WeWillBeFree24 No one makes water. Elaborate?

@LudditeTech @WeWillBeFree24 It doesnt make water.

Abilene, Texas. The buildout site of Stargate's massive Vantage Data Center "Frontier". Frontier will consist of 1,200 acres, 10 single story data centers, 3.7 million square feet. This is temporary housing for the construction teams. Total permanent jobs: 250. Yes, two hundred and fifty.

@LostDiva @WeWillBeFree24 Source that statement? DC companies either get huge power bills or generate their own energy. I’ve seen and paid these bills.

@LudditeTech @WeWillBeFree24 Who’s paying for the energy costs? Not the company.

@JohnGuaido69 @WeWillBeFree24 Then let’s level all the houses.

@LudditeTech @WeWillBeFree24 the land is vastly more important than you are

@MikeThompsonIN Our ancestors also clearcut the country and herded native Americans into reservations.

America has lost 140,00 farms - 20,000,000 acres gone. We lose 2000 acres every day to cheap housing, data centers, and solar farms. Our ancestors tamed the heartland. Their offspring sold it all for a lake house.

@Playerinthgame Also consider that vast majority of folks have zero clue what a DC actually is.

Bad faith pro-datacenter noise is out in force but the polling data doesn't lie. The vast majority of people don't want hyperscale datacenters built. We know these pro-DC accounts are either: - people who profit or hope to profit - paid accounts or - agentic

@WeWillBeFree24 @vlhill1 Again, tell me how I’m wrong.

@LudditeTech @vlhill1 Good luck with that.

@vlhill1 @WeWillBeFree24 Ok, devils advocate then. Is it not a farmers right to sell? We do not lack grazing lands.

Most of that unused land is in the west...and is truly unused, as it cannot support even animal grazing. None of the land near me meets that criteria. They ARE proposing data centers for land where cattle graze. One near me is just a few blocks from a small town - hardly in the middle of nowhere.

@rushicrypto Wait until find out how multi tenant data centers work.

Normal people and normal companies are not building data centers. They’re being built by massive companies and billionaires Ask yourself why they need this much power, land, water, and secrecy. And ask whether it’s really just about AI. There’s a reason so many of these contracts and operations are hidden from public view.

@WeWillBeFree24 @vlhill1 Please point out where I’m wrong. This is why your arguments will yield nothing, you cannot debate or find middle ground. Tech will simply work around you.

@LudditeTech @vlhill1 No one is interested in your propaganda.

@theliamnissan Y’all protest the ones in bumfuckistan as well.

Why are tech bros pressuring the typical farmer to sell their land instead of building Ai datacenters in the wastelands of Nevada for example? The answer is water. They need all the fresh water they can steal.

@vlhill1 @WeWillBeFree24 Active grazing land is a small percentage of the 47% of unused land in the US. Data center water usage is roughly .3 percent of daily water draws. Texas has PLENTY of land for DCs, I assure you. Cooling tech is advancing quickly as well to minimize the water usage.

@LudditeTech @WeWillBeFree24 The arable land is not empty. It is grazed by cattle. The non-arable land in west Texas doesn't have the water available to support these centers and is partially mountainous. The reason the Utah one got such vast acreage was for water rights.

@MemesAndrew @WeWillBeFree24 Yes.

@LudditeTech @WeWillBeFree24 So you're saying "we have plenty of space for the Panopticon walls so it's no big deal". "A Nation Without Walls" was not meant as an instruction manual.

@junogsp7 These boomers also had to call their grandkids to set up their new iPhone, and just clicked that phishing link for the tenth time.

🚨 7 in 10 Americans Oppose AI Data Centers Being Built in Their Communities * Latest Gallup Poll

@WeWillBeFree24 Bypassing debate and just yelling at the internet will not accomplish your goal.

@WeWillBeFree24 lol…of course. It’s 47%. We have the room.

@ObedientBread Hate to break it to you, zero profits exist with “AI” companies.

THIS IS NOT THE DOT-COM BUBBLE: In 1999, most companies had: - no profits - no cash flow - barely any real business models Today’s AI leaders are generating: - hundreds of billions in revenue - massive free cash flow - real enterprise demand

@jlippincott It’s the Tech CEOs that are talking that way. Most of us in tech know this is all unrealistic hype and waiting for reality to take over.

The tech bros don't understand economics. That's why they keep talking about mass unemployment as a result of AI. It is a mixture of marketing, ignorance, and ego at work. In reality, if AI is a success it will lower the price of goods and services by solving problems for business, inventors, researchers, etc. Those lower prices mean more savings for consumers. Those savings will get turned into either more investment or more consumption. Technology only gets adopted by human beings if it improves their lives. If AI isn't productive or useful, people won't use it and it won't matter. AI is not a "replacement" for human beings. AI does not have a will. LLMs do not long for happiness. They do not have desires. AI is a tool. Human beings use tools because we find them useful. They help us create little pieces of happiness for ourselves. Take the example of cancer. If AI manages to help researchers find cures for cancer then America's oncologists (~14,000) will be unemployed. That is a good thing. We would get to live in a cancer-free world AND redirect the current expenditures on cancer treatment (~$200 billion per annum) into new lines of production, solving new problems. That is a much better world, even if it means America's oncologists need to find new lines of work. And there will be more work to be done because we are finite, mortal beings who long to have the good and have it forever.

@RhondaGarad These kids aggressively used AI in school. The hypocrisy.

We’re witnessing the revival of a Luddite movement against AI. It’s not the technology people fear-it’s the psychopaths controlling it. Case in point: Google’s CEO responds to audience rejection here with a tone deaf, “It’s happening anyway.”