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Seems like such an obvious solution. We need a Conservative majority.
Elon Echoes Bukele Truth…
Until we muster up honest conservative majority, we’ll…
Stuff…
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Off The Charts Sarcasm For The WIN.
What if we just shut down AI for two weeks to flatten the curve?
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Have We Learned Nothing?
RECENT History We Survived With Common Sense.
Trust Our Gut. Trust Our Lying Eyes…
- COVID
- Climate Change
- Global Warming
- Global Cooling
- Y2K
- Monkey pox
- Ebola
- Zika
- Mad Cow
- West Nile Virus
- Killer Bees
- Superbugs
- Ozone Holes
- Acid Rain
- Overpopulation
- Bird Flu
- Swine Flu
- Data Centers/Artificial Intelligence. YOU ARE HERE
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Data Centers. Gotta Have Them, MeThinks.
Locals Were There First. Assimilate with locals for the Win-Win. Cost AND availability of water AND power should NOT increase over whatever locals currently pay.
Ideally locals utility cost will be reduced. Modern technology ought to be able to deliver lower costs. Data centers are already going to improve local utility infrastructure.
- Win-Win for everyone.
WAIT A Second. STOP The presses!
Below article addresses none of the concerns mentioned above. Though, those concerns Must AND I believe will be addressed to fairly meet local concerns, needs.
Energy reality forces tech to ditch climate virtue-signaling
If we want the data centers to run, we have to ditch the global warming propaganda.
In Pecos County, Texas, crews are clearing scrubland for a power plant that will burn natural gas and answer to no one but Amazon. With 35 turbines and a generating capacity of more than 7 gigawatts, the plant will be able to produce more electricity than the Grand Coulee Dam. A state permit allows the facility to emit 33 million tons of greenhouse gases a year, roughly double what comes from an Alabama coal-fired generator that has topped America’s emissions tables for years.
Now recall who founded the company building the gas behemoth. That would be Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, who just 5 years ago told delegates at a U.N. climate summit that a rocket ride had shown him a planet that was finite and fragile, prompting a pledge of $2 billion to “restore” nature. The applause was warm. The carbon-intensive private jet that carried Bezos to the Scotland meeting was noted by critics and forgotten by everyone else.
Now his company is financing what may become the largest point source of carbon dioxide in the United States, whose contribution to the greening of ecosystems should be welcome.
You are watching a conversion, and it deserves your attention because of what forced it.
The template, not the exception
Enverus Intelligence Research projects that user-owned turbines will account for about 40 percent of new data center capacity through 2030. Microsoft has signed a 20-year deal for power from a Chevron gas plant in neighboring Reeves County. Interconnection subscriptions are full, transformers are back-ordered, and the only metric that matters is the time it takes to get a power plant in operation.
In 2021, Facebook’s parent company Meta declared climate change one of the most pressing challenges facing the world and positioned itself among the largest corporate buyers of clean electricity. Then came its Hyperion data center in Louisiana. Regulators approved three combined-cycle gas plants for it in August 2025. In March 2026, Meta tripled the order, funding seven more and making the totals 10 gas plants and nearly $11 billion of investment. Meta will underwrite 15 years of revenue, while the turbines will run for 30 — a mismatch that has a dissenting member of the Public Service Commission warning that households may inherit the balance.
Elon Musk built an empire on the premise that combustion belongs to the past. In 2024, he said that a carbon tax was the only action needed to solve climate change. More recently, addressing G20 ministers, he warned of a significant power shortfall next year and defended data center construction against negative public sentiment. Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, in the same meeting, asked governments for more electricians and more electricity. Neither man requested more wind and solar installations.
Energy physics forces a hard reset
Big Tech’s turn toward dedicated gas power does not settle the climate debate, but it exposes the distance between a political narrative and a power grid capable of supporting industries. When servers must run, physics gets a vote.
For example, at the start of 2026, every grid-scale battery in the United States combined could meet national demand for only 15 minutes. Modeling the PJM regional power system through 2045, Jonathan Lesser and Mitchell Rolling found that a grid of wind, solar, and batteries would need 10 times the generating capacity of gas and nuclear power. It would also cost about seven times as much and cover a land area larger than the PJM service area, which comprises most of the Mid-Atlantic and parts of the Midwest.
Yet despite these facts, pseudo-scientists, grifters, and demagogues lectured for 20 years that coal is immoral, natural gas is a bridge to nowhere, and so-called green technologies are the planet’s salvation. Banks denied financing for hydrocarbon projects in developing countries where surgeons operate under lights powered by unreliable generators and where hundreds of millions cook with sooty wood and dung.
The lesson is the same for data centers and households: Prosperity requires electricity that is available when needed. Dependable systems of conventional energy sources will continue to power the tech revolution and human progress for decades.
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Grateful our ancestors broke the British chains, again, and again…
Thankfully, Trump is finishing off the Brits, Canucks… Along with NATO. Ideally UN.
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Charlie Over The Target.
islamis Gotta Go. Sharia Must Be Illegal.
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Stay The Course. Trust Trump. Remember…
Never, Ever, forget what they did to us.
Celebrate America, Everyday!!!
On the Sixth Day. Relax.
Night crew, your nickel.
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