Everyone's hyped about AI chips and fancy algorithms. But here's what nobody talks about: where do you even build these monster data centers?
Turns out 26 communities across the US have already said "no thanks" to mega facilities. The reasons? Power grids can't handle it. Water supplies getting drained. Neighborhoods don't want industrial complexes next door.
The AI infrastructure race isn't won in labs anymore—it's fought in town halls and zoning meetings. Land, electricity, water rights... these are the new bottlenecks nobody saw coming.
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GasFeeBeggar
· 12-11 04:53
Really, everyone is only thinking about trading coins and chips, nobody cares about how much electricity and water data centers consume... that's the real bottleneck.
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CrashHotline
· 12-11 04:53
Haha, this is the real deal... Everyone only focuses on chip stocks, no one thinks about who pays the electricity bill
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GasGasGasBro
· 12-11 04:49
Damn, so the final bottleneck in the AI computing power arms race is... electricity bills and water? LOL
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LiquidityWizard
· 12-11 04:34
ngl this hits different... people obsess over nvidia stock but statistically speaking, 60% of ai infrastructure gets killed in zoning meetings lol. the math doesn't lie—power consumption curves are exponential, grid capacity isn't. literally a liquidity crisis but for electrons
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SnapshotLaborer
· 12-11 04:30
To be honest, this is the real bottleneck issue—more heartbreaking than chip shortages.
Everyone's hyped about AI chips and fancy algorithms. But here's what nobody talks about: where do you even build these monster data centers?
Turns out 26 communities across the US have already said "no thanks" to mega facilities. The reasons? Power grids can't handle it. Water supplies getting drained. Neighborhoods don't want industrial complexes next door.
The AI infrastructure race isn't won in labs anymore—it's fought in town halls and zoning meetings. Land, electricity, water rights... these are the new bottlenecks nobody saw coming.