Big tech already getting ahead of people with their fanboys who are heavily invested in stocks. i say Caleb Hammer (the guy who does clickbait videos lambasting people in debt crisis) about data centers. like dude stay in your lane, i know you prob have massive holdings, but stay in your lane.
"they use too much water", is followed up by "we figured that out, we have a closed loop system now". which is funny, because the other bigger criticism is energy use. how do people think they're making a closed loop system work? massive water purification and recirculation, making the energy draw even worse. then they'll shift towards energy independence, likely by using gains to buy out massive tracts for inefficient energy not available to the grid.
data centers remain a necessity for ai driven business with zero upside to the actual population outside of goy slop entertainment videos and chat gpt answers to stuff google already could have told you.
The scale of the expansion is incredible, pretty sure we are more than doubling the datacenter sites in USA if you account for under construction and in proposal/permitting phase.
Given the trend in technology, the sites will be outdated in a 5-10 year arch. Likely, the technology will improve in regards to physical footprint (think vacuum tube mainframe taking up a warehouse before the transistor downsized it into a box).
Can't predict the future, but feels very much like the old saying. "Pioneers get the arrows, settlers get the land". US running full speed in a race people don't care about.
This post was edited by RedFromWinter on Mar 24 2026 10:42am