@lansing: Well said and well written. Full agreement. Hung out with a friend who builds data centers today. Notes: - They're offe…
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A tweet discusses how data center projects face opposition from local town councils due to political concerns, contrasts this with China's energy progress, and emphasizes the urgency of accelerating AI development for supremacy.
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Well said and well written. Full agreement.
Hung out with a friend who builds data centers today.
Notes:
- They’re offering 400-home towns with $1.2m annual budgets $30m/year for 40 years…..and getting turned down.
- Reasons: 2-3 of the 5-6 person town council have local businesses and are worried they’ll be scorned locally if they vote yes
- There’s a loud 20% that’s anti turning down a 60% who are big thumbs up on it but don’t want to publicly fight.
- He travels with security and receives death threats weekly
- Energy is not the immediate top problem, it’s entitlements.
- They’re having the construction GC bring all their subcontractors to town mtg’s to show the job impact
- Unions in MI and other places are defunding Dems bc they’re anti-jobs now. He got emailed this while we were hanging.
All of this actually, strangely, gives me hope. Because it’s so feverishly dumb for local towns to turn these down that the dam will break.
But, meanwhile, China is on its way to basically limitless electricity. AI supremacy might be for all the marbles. We must accelerate.
Danny Penny (@12Palehorse): So that Americans will continue to win for generations to come.
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