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🇺🇸 TESLA HIRING FOR $200M MEGAFACTORY OUTSIDE HOUSTON Tesla is bringing clean energy muscle to Brookshire, Texas, and they’re hiring like crazy. 41 jobs are open now, from welders to engineers, all stamped with one word: “Megafactory.” The site will mirror Tesla’s California Megafactory that cranks out 10,000 utility-scale Megapacks per year. They’re leasing 2 massive buildings, investing over $200M in automation, robotics, and advanced manufacturing tech. By 2028, they’ll employ at least 1,500 people in the region and must stay at that level for a decade. Brookshire’s getting transformed from logistics corridor to clean energy hotspot. Source: Houston Business Journal

Shocking stat of the day: Data center energy consumption has reached a record 5% of total US power demand. This increase has been driven by the rapid adoption of digitalization and AI technologies. This percentage is now estimated to more than DOUBLE over the next 5 years, according to McKinsey. Additionally, data center load is set to account for up to 40% of net new demand added until 2030. Overall, electricity demand for data centers is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of +23% through 2030. Energy will soon be the AI bottleneck.

in Houston the energy is electric every oil and gas company is going to become a utility that sells behind the meter generation bitcoin mining will be the marginal buyer which will remove the need for costly midstream infrastructure