There is an increased public discussion about the race to build datacenters in the USA that are part of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) race for superiority. There are multiple facets within the discussion and some things to consider that might not be at the forefront, yet.
Overall, there is a global race to build the best AI system that is not dissimilar to the nuclear arms race. Arguably the use of AI as a weapon is one possibility; while the second aspect surrounds strategic economic power.
The USA is poised very favorably in this AI race due to the advanced tech industry in America and recent national security moves made by President Trump in the tech sector surrounding strategic critical minerals and domestic chip production. However, no one is quite sure where China is in their AI development and last year’s explosive revelation around China’s “Deepseek” model shocked the U.S. tech industry due to its advanced intelligence prowess.
With China and the USA both in this AI race, and the need for massive investment in datacenters to do the processing needed for an artificial intelligence brain of such significant capacity, there is a sense of urgency in the tech industry that is surfacing around the country. Simultaneously, with datacenters becoming more controversial, suddenly the geopolitical intelligence operations enter the picture.
Currently, it is well accepted inside the tech industry that part of China’s strategy against the USA in this AI race is to slow down American system development. As a consequence, it is beginning to surface that Beijing may be funding voices inside the USA to rally against the building of datacenters. Essentially, China funding voices, real or artificially boosted influence operations, to amplify domestic opposition to the datacenters.
Anytime the intelligence operations become part of a domestic issue that has national security implications, things get opaque, cloudy and muddy pretty quick. Is datacenter opposition organic – actual citizens and communities pushing back against the development in their towns and/or cities or is the opposition to the datacenters a form of foreign influence operation?
These questions become challenging to answer, and discernment becomes very critical. The truth might even be a combination depending on the localized opposition and/or regional importance. One thing is very clear, building the world’s leading AI system is being rushed with an urgency similar to atomic bomb development.
Here’s a great example of that type of question.
Today Gallup released a poll showing 72 percent of Americans are opposed to building AI datacenters in their area. [POLLING HERE]
The topline sounds pretty straightforward right? 7 in 10 Americans oppose “the construction of a data center in their area to support artificial intelligence technology.” That’s the polled result. Indeed, this poll is being cited in numerous media articles now emphasizing opposition to the datacenters.
However, put on your discernment cap and look at it closely. Notice the date of the poll, “March 2-18, 2026.” Why did Gallup wait two months to release the results of a poll on May 13, 2026?
Did the date of release today have something to do with the timing of President Trump taking a list of key U.S. tech and finance leaders to Beijing to confront China on exactly this AI issue? …. Or was it coincidental?
This is where you have to make up your own mind as to whether this Gallup poll is an organic outcome, an organically timed release, on an issue that just happens to be at the heart of the geopolitical negotiations currently underway in Beijing between the USA and China. Or was there some kind of influence operation around it?
I really don’t know the answer, but I’m well aware of how the influence game is played once various intelligence operations identify something as critically important. Who funded this Gallup poll? Why did they wait to release it?
At the same time this battle to win the AI race is underway, there is a psychological battle to influence the outcome. China plays this game very well and they know how to draw on emotional influence operations; that’s why Beijing spends so much time, money and human capital on North America.
Again, opposition to datacenter development can be entirely organic, justified and righteous. Simultaneously, the information around opposition to datacenters can be amplified, enhanced or become part of an influence operation to win a battle. The truth can also be a mix of both, but discovering the truth first begins with an admission of the possibility and a decision to put emotion away and think logically about the controversy.
I’m no fan of Elon Musk, but he said something in/around this issue that is very thoughtful and well presented:
Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?”
One nation on earth held a weapon nobody else had.
Total dominance. Zero competition. No risk of retaliation.
Every empire in history that held that kind of advantage used it.
Rome. The Mongols. The British. The Ottomans.
They conquered until they collapsed.
America had a bigger advantage than all of them combined.
And it rebuilt the countries it just defeated.
Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”
Almost unprecedented?
It had never happened before. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded history.
The Marshall Plan wasn’t foreign aid.
It was the most radical act of restraint any superpower ever committed.
America turned its enemies into allies. Turned rubble into economies. Turned surrender into partnership.
Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a generation.
Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.
Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.
A city in the heart of the nation that just tried to destroy it.
That’s not policy.
That’s a civilization deciding what it is at the exact moment it has the power to be anything.
You’re being told a story right now.
That America is the villain of history.
You hear it everywhere. Media. Universities. Social platforms.
Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.”
Every nation on earth has dark chapters. Every single one.
The difference is what a country does when nobody can stop it.
And when nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.
Musk: “The history of China suggests that China is not acquisitive. Meaning they’re not going to go out and invade a whole bunch of countries.”
Probably right.
China has historically built walls, not fleets.
But the real question isn’t about borders anymore.
We’re approaching a moment that mirrors 1945 in ways nobody has fully processed yet.
AI is going to give a handful of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look quaint.
If someone is going to hold that kind of power, who do you want it to be?
The country that conquered when it could? Or the one that rebuilt when it didn’t have to?
Every alliance. Every trade route. Every economy.
Billions lifted out of poverty.
All of it traces back to one act of restraint that had never been done before.
And carries no guarantee of being repeated.
The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb.
It was what it didn’t do after. {source}
Artificial Intelligence (AI) development, winning the AI race, has been identified as the #1 national security issue of the next few years. The winner in this digital war could turn off the lights, pollute the water, hack elections, empty your bank account, control communication systems and generally create nationwide chaos without ever firing a kinetic missile.
AI is both an offensive weapon and a defensive weapon guarding against AI attacks.
Within the race and setting aside that technocrats will reap billions from it regardless of outcome, the regional AI datacenters are likely to be a political issue. Think about 2028. AI and the development of these datacenters could be a very divisive topic.
How do you feel about it?
Solution to the Data Center NIMBY syndrome: GREENLAND!
Pocket-nuke power plants, lots of naturally available heat transfer media, and minimal impacts on agricultural and potable ground water.
last month I saw some kind of protest in Greenland (staged? probably) that ppl there do not want US in their country.
They do not want Data centers.
They do produce a lot of heat? They do use a lot of electricity.
We have boat loads of them here in Northern Virginia.
They are eyesores and offend aesthetic sensibilities, kind of like Obama’s Refreshing Reflecting Pool with better ground water treatment. If we build in Greenland, the structures can look like foothills and blend right into the barren hillsides. It might actually improve the backdrop for the staged protests.
Speaking of Denmark, Mitte’s temper tantrums didn’t work out too well…. What a world!
Everything not local and seen with your own eyes is a psyop….
If government is telling you; believe it’s a psyop until proven.
That’s what I think.
I travel and look into data centers being built; most welcome it unless in residential neighborhoods.
Every where I go that’s been the sentiment.
The “story” circulating on X about eminent domain forcing people out of their homes….interesting timing too.
We have a lot of Data Centers in Loudoun County Virginia. Yes, that Loudoun County.
20 years ago, this county was very quiet, and very few neighborhoods or good roads. There was even a saying “Don’t Fairfax Loudoun County”. 😂 Oh well, too late.
We are talking about proposed physical facilities larger than the island of Manhattan.
Most residential communities have no idea what they are taking on with something that large.
If this AI race is tantamount to the old Cold War nuclear arms race, let them use those old gigantic sites for this new ‘arms race’. Most of them are deep in the less fertile southwest and more arid desert regions of the country.
I’m entirely certain that “Georgia Power, Inc.,” as a private corporation, does not have the power of “eminent domain,” anyhow.
Step 1. Use AI to stop government corruption.
Step 2. Use AI to identify corrupt politicians and staff.
Step 3. Use AI to form rock-solid prosecutions.
Step 4. Use AI to finalize incarceration of the guilty.
Use AI to be your judge ,jury and executioner.
I am sorry Rocket. I cant let you do that.
Are you saying lawyers will lose their jobs? I’m in on that….
100%.
AI is national security.
AI requires energy.
America controls energy – around the world.
Rural areas in the U.S. are great for this – as long as data centers bring their own power (BYOP) to prevent energy inflation… and no personal property taxes ever again!
Dream on. We are paying a small fortune in Loudoun County. We pay for their power.
I’ll say it again. This AI datacenter boom is the Revenge of the Mainframes. Anyone who lived near an old SAGE facility understands what I am talking about.
Presently, the AI datacenter boom, as PDJT rebuilds the electrical generation infrastructure that Joe Biden degraded, is what has been driving mainstream residential and commercial electricity prices through the roof.
These AI oligarchs need to pay for their own electricity, not the American taxpayer citizen.
If they want to build a massive AI datacenter complex, build it on the old Hanford nuclear site, which was rendered a useless mess from the ‘arms race’ of the last Century. There are many other similarly damaged locations across the country, and many other superfund sites, from the Cold War arms race available. Use those.
Don’t trash good and productive American land with megastructures full of millions of Nvidia chips that will be obsolete in 3 years.
I agree.
Sadly, with a governor like Spamburger here in Virginia, nothing like that will happen.
Very thoughtful…I will add this to the conversation… in my neck of the woods the governor of IL has decided his people need unstable sources of energy such as windmills and large solar facilities crammed down their throats. I for one, am weary of these large boondoggles moving into rural areas and I suspect nefarious motives behind all of it. I think the dissent against data centers is at least partly a result of that weariness… and especially when we we are told it will take the water and electrical resources. People in my area are already paying dearly for electricity. I don’t see how they hold on when higher rates, and I suspect at least brownouts come our way, while those in power in IL continue to shut down our most stable sources of energy and put its citizens at risk.
I pass way too many windmills on the way to Peru, IL….
Just think what ol’ JB would do if he ever found his way into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue!
“And when nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.”
“Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.”
Romans 12:20 (AKJV)
Continued BLESSINGS of Guidance and Safety on President Trump, his team, & The USA!
Through JESUS MIGHTY NAME, AMEN, AMEN, & AMEN
Datacenters are first and foremost about access to cheap and abundant energy. The USA leads the way in that regard and I believe is part of what is driving President Trumps foreign policy.
AI is also a control vector/mechanism for the IC. That is why the real time shift that has started with subtle press around new peer review studies and model changes in regard to Climate Hysteria (the previously preferred IC control mechanism) not being such a big deal after all!!! (imagine that). The IC knows it cannot run AI/DataCenters on windmills and solar panels and so has positioned the WEF and GlobalHomo to start backing off the Green New Scam.
No comments from Team Greta (true believers); Team Gore (the Grifters) or Team WEF (the Control Elites) protesting the climate impact related to the massive energy consumption required to power AI. Why is that?
Cities have used zoning for this issue many times. A home developer has to provide roads, water, utilities, etc. in order to get a subdivision approved.
Simply do the same for an AI complex.
The objections to AI centers is ridiculous and therefore artificial.
Yes; ignorance is already showing on this board.
Zoning law. LOL! A complex that size can work around all those traditional constraints quite easily.
Money talks. Big money changes the essential rules in these communities. Overnight.
I’ve seen communities completely destroyed once a landfill operator came in, and offered so much money that the residents not only didn’t pay local taxes anymore, they got a check every year. They changed the entire city charter to accommodate the money.
That went on for about 30 years. And now the place is literally a dump, and the operator, and the annual checks, are long gone. All the original residents and the city government leaders that pushed it through are long gone, too. All that remains now is the stink, and the giant hills of garbage.
No one wants to live there, and the neighboring towns all get to smell the mistake for years to come, too.
AI needs more serious operating controls than local communities can muster.
I doubt that AI data centers smell that bad.
Hmmm . . . . 30 years tax free and an income . . . . If that exceeds 3.333%, then you just sold your property.
Anyway, assuming that at a minimum, the AI center would provide all electricity for itself and surroundings, it would behoove them to move to where land and electricity generation is the cheapest.
Im against it…as a species, we simply cant weaponize every thing we touch.
Yes, opposition is a real thing. The state I live in they want to build these things near where people live, including me. People DO NOT WANT TO LIVE NEAR DATA CENTERS! THEY DRIVE UP ENERGY COSTS, ARE NOISY, WILL LOWER PROPERTY VALUE, DONT BRING IN MANY JOBS. I’m not going to sit here and suffer anyone saying that opposing a data center being built in my backyard is a Chinese psyop. I can’t keep jumping through mental gymnastics hoops to change my mind about everything in order to be in line with DJT or “MAGA” on every issue. I’m done! Goodbye! 👋🏻
2 reasons often cited for opposition to Data Centers is the impact on water supply and electricity consumption. If you are opposed for those reasons, that is short sighted. Already closed loop water systems are being innovated replacing evaporative systems that will greatly reduce water consumption. The other issue of electricity consumption will be solved with Small Modular Nuclear Reactors (SMR) within 5 to 7 years.
So think about this: A bare piece of land yields very little in property taxes to the local government. Land occupied by a data center can yield from the low to high $millions based on Situs policies with the local jurisdiction. Once a data center is in service with closed loop water cooling and SMR, it will be low impact to the local environment and potentially the source of future millions of dollars in property tax revenue.
Yes, some jurisdictions are offering property tax breaks for a period of time. But those expire.
They will be built and some jurisdictions will thrive and prosper.
Yep! 🙂
I am not sure when those property tax breaks end in Loudoun County. Here they are being built very rapidly.
I will look it up right now.
June 30, 2035
Make the AI data centers responsible for generating all electricity for the data center and the community in which they occupy.
Everybody in that that community gets free electricity paid for by the data center.
This might solve increased energy costs for the immediate community, but if that generation is coal, oil or natural gas based it’s going to raise energy prices overall due to simple supply and demand. The energy needs of AI simply outpace supply, solar can’t handle it. Nuclear might but will take time and huge changes in regulation.
“How do you feel about it?”
Here in WNY, they have closed 3 coal fired power plants in the past decade or so. Plants were in Dunkirk on Lake Erie, Tonawanda on the upper Niagara River and Somerset on Lake Ontario.
The plant at Somerset was demolished to prevent ever restarting it. I have a brother that delivers rental construction equipment. He has made many trips there this year. Construction is going full blast one the fifth building, he thinks they want to put 10 on that site.
His impression is that they are building like crazy BEFORE the deadline sets in that Data Centers will have to supply their own power. IDK where they are going to get the power for this complex. Perhaps from the Niagara [Falls] Power project, since industry has been driven out of the state because of taxation and state government policies.
In the meantime, our local electricity rates are soaring. Costs to the town where I live have doubled for street lighting in the past year. Costs for the County have also doubled. Those cost increases are directly from the Sheriff and Town Supervisor that were speaking at a recent NYS Political Action Committee that will be endorsing them (1791 Society).
Ours too. Souring indeed!
what does an AI center data breach look like ?
I guess I’ve been too lazy to really go and research what it means to me, society, and humanity to be the first on the block with the biggest, baddest AI in the world. So that’s the first bubble (A) and the second bubble (B) is the fact these data centers consume huge amounts of electricity. Who’s paying for all that juice? If I can’t understand bubble A, then why would I want to pay for the bubble (B)? I believe in some states that are pushing to acquire these centers, they’re probably just offloading the costs onto the pub!ic in the form of higher utility rates. I don’t agree with that, at least not until there’s a more persuasive pitch for why this is so important to our country. Maybe I should go and ask grok or chatgpt what this really means in simple layman terms that my pea brain might understand.
The question should be, How to get rid of AI?
Not under the influence of any influencers, here are my thoughts.
A.I. is inevitable and the U.S. has to be “on top”. Got it.
AS LONG AS, no data centers are built anywhere near me, in my county, and would prefer not in my state.
UNLESS, builders of these data centers can document the level of harm to the environment, the burden on the electric grid, and the need for water (to keep things cool). Data centers “run hot”. AND the people must approve the development.
To builders, U.S. Farmland looks like a great option. To Farmers, it looks like a disaster. For instance, I have several wells on my property. I count on the ground water for livestock. Will the groundwater be stolen out from under me? Will it be contaminated?
There would have to be legal guarantees for We the People, that no harm would come to us in this race for domination.
Spiritually speaking, it is thought that A.I. is the begining of the “Beast System” and the coming AntiChrist. So, why would I be in favor of that? I don’t want anything to do with A.I., but if the country “must” go in that direction, then I always want the choice of LEGALLY OPTING OUT, in my finances, on my property, in my personal life. That would have to be a legal guarantee.
Remember, while Musk has some valid thoughts, his view is that the Elites are going to run the world and we can all kick back on a Universal Basic Income (because we still be stripped of all choices). So…
Personally, I think the opposition IS ORGANIC.
Either we build it or someone else will. Do we trust that the someone else will be the same as us? That would be foolish
I have found most of the arguments against them hollow.
The argument most common is they are already causing electrical bills to spike.
The current rate increases were baked into the cake by solar and windmills. We were asked to beleive that having 20 percent plus of our ele tri al generation. Coming from sources 2 to 3 times the cost of conventional generation would not effect our bills. It was demonstrated by having the feds foot the bill for the builds.
Now that money has dried up and the same state level jerks who demanded the utilities to participate are continuing to demand compliance and expansion. Now there are no subsidies so the only source is the rate payer. It is the same issue that is destroying industry in Germany.
Here in michigan we continue to pay for.decommisioning of power plants while we build.more.solar and wind
Please Mr President order a datacenter here and include a nuclear power plant with excess capacity and force the buying of power by the corrupt Public Service Commision.
Data Centers is a misnomer. They are surveillance centers.
AI Data Centers are OK. Just have the wealthiest guys in the freakin universe provide their own electricity!
Nuclear, solar, coal, gas, it doesn’t matter, but don’t take a single watt from the current grid!
A patriotic “Marshall Plan” of sorts, so that the wealthiest guys get more wealthy,
but do not do so on the backs of the local tax paying rate payers!
I have yet to hear how AI will be a positive for society in terms of jobs. On the contrary, I keep hearing about all the sectors where jobs will be negatively affected. That means more competition for less jobs.
How can that possibly be a good thing? I’m open to my mind being changed.
From an employment viewpoint they do virtually nothing for the local population. The more concerning issue is citizens being required to foot the utility increases. I dont understand why they arent on a closed loop for water. Unless its simply they want the absolute least overhead and maximum profits. Politicians really dgaf about their constituents.
Data centers here in Loudoun County are enormous. They are as big as the local hospitals.
How many cars parked out front? about 28 cars max
I’m all in on Ai because china is not going to stop even if we all hate it and outlaw that technology.
It’s not a matter of if or should we do it anymore. We’re past that argument.
In fact we’re thirty years past it.
You’re not going to stop this technology.
So don’t even try.
I think these big tech companies should put these data centers in state that a: welcome it and b: have large swaths of areas to put these massive buildings.
Pretty much build massive areas around these data centers.
Reasons to not like data centers. They want to tap into existing electrical grids. Creates fear of higher electricity costs. I have no objections to them building their own power plants.
Amount of water they use. Many places already have water shortage concerns, other worried about environmental impact.
Building their own man made lakes might be an idea.
For me, as a construction worker. Do I really want to help build a facility that will take jobs from people? I do not. They might even develope something that could replace me.
Also. Why would I help build something that would enable people to spy on me more efficiently?
Yeah. I don’t want anything to do with data centers.
Many people think “OK, if the AI becomes dangerous and self-aware, we can just pull the plug on it right?”
Well, one thing about some of these data centers is they are planning to operate their own power plants. And among those, some are using portable nuclear generators and Small Modular Reactors (SMRs). While modern nuclear power generators can and WILL “shut down” on demand/requirement as all of the historical causes of “meltdown” (resulting in the core continuing to react and simply melts everything it touches and descends into the planet) have been addressed architecturally. Unlike traditional reactors, SMRs are designed to be walk-away safe, meaning they do not require active human intervention, external AC/DC power, or mechanical pumps to maintain safety after the scram.
Depending on the specific architecture of the small reactor, it may take a few days or longer to safely restart it again. There will be HEAVY resistance to stopping a reactor simply because an AI wants to destroy humanity. I know that sounds stupid but that’s the way businesses make decisions. This could EASILY be a Scott Adams Dilbert cartoon topic.
AI is going to be a disaster because no one seems to care about the problems it will bring. Right now, AI is “an assistant” and isn’t really thinking yet. It operates on training and doesn’t allow users to train it. And early tests on allowing AI to actually “act” has resulted in numerous unexpected and scary events. But I don’t worry too much about THAT kind of problem. When an idiot gives an AI power to operate your computers and networks? Whatever happens will be a disaster and hilariously so…. unless it’s a hospital and people die because of it… anyway…
No the real disaster will be the lack of and loss of basic human skills in the real world. The degree to which this has already happened because of other technology is well understood and also very much dismissed. We’re one extended loss of power away from a MASSIVE death event. People once lived without electricity and transportation. But we’re not set up for that any longer. People will simply die without those things. But it becomes worse still as people will offload their ability to think and reason to AI. They will ask AI to do engineering and will no longer have the skills to engineer anything at all.
Imagine people using the internet without Google or whatever other complex search engine. You can’t. I remember the internet before those days. We all shared information on message systems and pointed each other to resources and the good resources got mirrored. It was effective and essentially operated by all humans and nothing but some basic search services.
Now apply that thinking to THINKING. What will people do when the AI is turned off after a generation of people have grown up dependent on it?
Business wants to not pay people and to not depend on people. I get it. There are not Henry Fords out there. Henry Ford thought a car should be affordable to his employees and needed his employees to be happy and effective in their work. He correctly imagined a sustainable arrangement with the community and his products. But what happens when companies decide they can produce their “stuff” or “services” without the need of employees? What happens? Well, ultimately the government becomes their customers and the government gets its money from these companies and pays the unemployable public “to live.” It’s impossible to imagine this as “sustainable” and is in fact a death spiral for anything that looks like an economy. To go where business is inclined to go is the death of society and really society itself.
Tell me I’m seeing things wrong. Tell me why if you think so. This isn’t “a tool” to get more things done or to improve quality of output. This is humanity replacement.
Space X!!!!! Invest early and often.
60% more power from the Sun in space without atmospheric attenuation. The Sun never sets in space. And, there is a built in cooler on the far side of the satellite.
Space X and Tesla are building solar. Space X can launch satellites into space at low cost (starship is the catalyst).
Huge AI inference needs for “robots”, aka real world AI —- Tesla is leading in this space with 10 billion+ FSD miles driven, no one else is close.
AI data centers in space is the next huge leap and only Space X can deliver at scale.
Think about investing in the railroads in the 1800’s and oil/gas industry at the turn of the last century and the telecom/chip manufacturing at the end of last century. What were you investing in?
You were investing in the operating system of the planet.
Tesla (autonomous driving, battery storage), Space X (Terrafab, space AI data centers, the launch mechanism), Nvidia, TSCM — the gpu’s and Google are gonna be the big players in the future operating system of the planet and beyond. Like it or not, that’s where we’re heading.
I think that “AI” is the latest “industry hype,” long after the last one that I most remember which was “Y2K.” They’re trying to tell you that it is “absolutely inevitable” to pay vast sums of money for mainframe-style, centralized “data centers.” For reasons that are presumably known only to them except that there are obviously vast amounts of money in it.
Well, there’s a guy out there named Jay Valentine (“Fractal computing”) who happens to think that it’s ludicrous to put all that computing power in a centralized location, necessarily a long way from the real action and connected to it by network communication lines. He has shown how astonishing results can be achieved from microcomputers which are distributed very close to where the information is needed – thereby slashing the dependency on the slowest thing that any computer does, which is “Input/Output = I/O.”
I also know that the Chinese published, as open source, some very significant improvements to “AI algorithms” which drastically reduce the computational load and therefore also power consumption. Because they did it in this way, there are absolutely no secrets about just what they did and why. We can be absolutely certain that there will be more innovations to follow: that’s just the way it works.
“AI” is the latest “big thing,” even though it is not “intelligence” at all. You’re just supposed to hurry up and spend gobs of money on it. (Including building power plants.) I think that it’s high time that public officials start throwing large bricks into this machinery. There is basically a scam afoot. And the computer software industry has (“Y2K”) certainly done it before.
P.S.: “Computer software” is “my” industry of expertise.
From what little I’ve read people seem to be concern about the lack of electric, however President Trump has stated they would be providing their own.
COMMON SENSE FROM TEXAS:
I live in rural Tx and there is ground swell opposition to data centers of any kind and it’s more intense and widespread than anything. Of course AI is pushing the data centers but that’s not the point.
The point is that those centers require power and the biggest pushes for more power are solar and wind. We get tornadoes, hurricanes, hail and sometimes just crazy wind. All of that ruins solar farms and windmills and spreads toxins while doing it. Windmills are something we don’t even need because of…..well just go watch the famous video on that from the Landman series.
The “green” solutions require TONs of battery storage and those have a nasty habit of showing their middle finger to those who attempt to put the fires out and trust me, those fires do occur.
You know what’s WORSE?
All of this requires water for cooling and water for putting out fires.
What do life, crops, livestock require? WATER.
Vast swaths of Texas depend on the water table and it’s getting sucked up.
We as a state and a country should have been building nuclear power for decades now.
Here ya go with that Landman video:
We trust President Trump and his team.
Do nothing congress has to act to book law.!
We want to live our life in peace and harmony with no outside interupptios.
If you’re against data centers, which there are almost 5000 of them here in the United States then I strongly suggest you get rid any electronic device that you own as that electronic device accesses data centers not clouds in order to serve up applications like Facebook what’s up Amazon etc. etc. data centers serve as the platform that serve up all the applications you run on your electronic devices, so in order not to be hypocritical if you don’t want any data centers, then get rid of your electronic device and stop using it. This is all about supply and demand so if you are a person who is against the data centers, then get rid of your electronic device devices and lower the demand so we don’t have to have a high supply very simple.
The Data Center boom in Wyoming: https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/05/04/with-up-to-70-cheyenne-area-data-centers-in-the-works-petition-calls-for-pause/
Thank you Sundance.I have questions i guess.
Investment Firms and Foreign CapitalPrivate equity firms and foreign investors are increasingly influential in data center ownership. DigitalBridge backs platforms like Vantage, Switch, and DataBank, while Blackstone invests heavily in data center real estate. Foreign capital also plays a major role: Dubai’s DAMAC Properties is investing $20 billion in U.S. data centers, Saudi-backed DataVolt is investing another $20 billion, and Japan’s SoftBank is exploring global data hub networks through Project Stargate. Australia’s Macquarie Group has committed hundreds of millions to high-performance computing campuses.
Microsoft owns a good size %. Where does China fit in? Im sorry this is all to confusing 😉