Youtuber #1

I was sucked into the idea of the data center deal while it was being developed in Ohio (Intel) and now in multiple sites in Michigan and the push to make this happen has been insane and, what has begun to show itself, an impossible construction trajectory. The Power Requirements alone have become impossible to actually make happen but yet they still build. The Chipsets necessary to run them have become impossible to supply (due to the intentional bottlenecks in S.K. & Taiwan ) so the DC’s sit unused because of this. But yet they still build. It is being pushed wayyy too hard for an AI world that most humans have no real interest in. But yet they still build. My prediction is that we will see these Data companies start to file bankruptcy in the 3rd quarter of this year (2026) and ask trump for bailouts which he will give out like a person handing out candy to kids at Halloween. Right before the Midterm elections. Perfect timing.

Youtuber #2

I just skipped through the video, I will admit. I stopped when I heard “a data technician can earn up to 100” and that was it. That was all. I work for a too big to fail financial institution in enterprise availability. We have massive data centers, And guess what? Technicians are not going into those data centers on a day to day basis. Once the servers are racked up and connected, everything is done over the wire from outside the data center. And if a card fails and has to be replaced? Yeah, we have to call the vendor, make an arrangement to have a tech come out with the correct part and then get them through security. So they’re not always on scene. It’s utterly deceptive to tell people that data centers bring great jobs to Middle of Cornfield, Nebraska. That doesn’t happen.

What does happen is that if you build a data center in Middle of Cornfield, Nebraska, the water that would be used to grow corn is diverted to the data center so it can cool cards, servers, etc., down to operating temperature. Then the price of growing corn goes up. And the price of electricity for homes and businesses goes up so that it can be used to power these data centers. And then there are the heat islands. Are the farmers going to be able to grow corn when the heat island around the data center raises the air and ground temperature several degrees? Studies have shown that data centers produce “heat islands.” I live in south central Arizona, and if you’ve never lived through a Phoenix summer, 110+ temperatures suck. Data centers would heat up our land and take our water… And our electric bills will go up because we have to cool our homes more. cnn.com/2026/03/30/climate/data-centers-are-having-an-underrported - Cambridge study and azfamily.com/2026/03/18/arizona-data-centers-warming-neighboring-communities-by-several-degrees Arizona State University study.

So we, the taxpayers and ratepayers, we pay more for water and electricity, as well as to build out the infrastructure to bring water and electricity to the monster data centers Oh, and I didn’t even mention more pollution as mothballed coal burning power plants are brought back online to service these behemoths of computing.

And for what?

AI can’t even read a clock or run a stopwatch. There are videos here on YT demonstrating that. And AIs hallucinate. Humans still have to go through the code they generate to make sure that it really is production ready.

So no, I’m opposed to more data centers just for AI compute, but I think market forces are going to take care of that for us. (Not enough chips, not enough available power / water, not enough money to pay for all of that and the infrastructure as well. On top of that, as OpenAi and Anthropic race towards IPOs, the actually shaky grounds their businesses are resting on will become clearer.) The result will be rusting hulks of abandoned data centers in Middle of Cornfield, Nebraska. Seriously, we gotta put the brakes on this.

Me: Nothing but a covert land grab. Techbruh-feudalism… now open your mouths while I trickle down those debts that I will avoid paying. A relativly slow poision that will be the nail in the coffin. It will take decades to fix if we are lucky.