My note on data centers

Data centers are getting built and the demand isn't slowing down. Tech is the largest market in the world. Where they go and who pays for them is what we should be deciding.

They don't need to go on farmland. They don't need to go in the state and federal parks. They should go to the old mining towns. Those communities gave us their hearts and souls.

Right now counties are bidding against each other, handing out tax breaks to land these things, and the cost of the power lands on everybody's utility bill. That's backwards. Make the company pay for the grid it needs. Give the town a real share of what gets built there.

This is needed. These towns are close enough to real job markets that people would live there if it were affordable. Put the money into housing and the town itself. Rent comes down. Utilities come down. Communities spread back out instead of shrinking into tighter and tighter areas, providing more and more power for the rich, wealthy, and powerful.

We're mining again, hopefully for the final time. We're connected more now than ever. Let's learn from history and keep things flowing.

Love,

Stanny

Hey,I’m really interested in getting some hands-on experience as a Data Center Technician and learning more about the infrastructure side of IT.I’ve got a background in IT support stuff like troubleshooting PCs, handling tickets,Printers, and general tech support, but I’d love to actually work in a data center environment for like 6 months or so to really learn the ropes and was thinking of literally just driving to a few data centers and handing out resumes in person to see if anyone’s hiring or taking on techs in Portland.

Would that actually work these days? Or should I just go the normal route(LinkedIn, staffing agencies)

Hi guys . I'm looking into people's views of the presence of nvidia in data centers. Interested to know how much of nvidia is in and how innovative they are in this aspect .

as the headline states….

I have free lunch, snacks and commute hour and 30 each way to make 20, where is this so called Data center money I see on social media, I'm a contractor so I'll never be promoted what should be my next step ?

I don’t understand why companies are building data centers in Israel. With constant war and hot weather it feels like there are much better areas

Hi! Researching AI Data Centers and wondering if anyone suggests a place to find all centers in the US, besides the data center map website. Thanks!

Thoughts on the lack of gender diversity

For the average modern data centers. how navy people are actually employed full time once the construction/fit up is finished and it goes into full normal operation?

I keep seeing news about companies buying up large tracts of land in inexpensive areas to build massive data centers and claiming it's bringing many jobs to the area. Obviously, many temp jobs during the construction and fit up, but for permanent, I'm hearing maybe 40-50 for facilities and IT.

I'd also surmise many of the IT employees could be remote as well?

I keep hearing people say that data centers are noisy for nearby neighborhoods. Are data centers being built today more quiet? Or just as noisy as ever?

"Of 809 planned datacenters, 517 are in locations that have been in drought conditions throughout the past year"

,,,,“The current supply of capacity in PJM is not adequate to meet the demand from large data center loads and will not be adequate in the foreseeable future. This is a simple factual issue,” the report explains.

There’s no easy way to reverse this trend, according to Monitoring Analytics. It’s just going to be the reality for the next couple of years: “Large data center load additions have already had a significant and irreversible impact on PJM customers that will be paid through May 31, 2028, and will have additional significant impacts on other customers as a result of higher transmission costs, higher energy market prices and higher capacity market prices.” ...

https://www.monitoringanalytics.com/reports/PJM_State_of_the_Market/2026/2026q1-som-pjm.pdf

https://gizmodo.com/power-prices-in-eastern-u-s-spike-76-thanks-to-ai-data-centers-2000759230

My community in rural florida recently found out that a developer is attempting to secure land in a bid to build a 50MW+ data center for an unnamed defense contractor. They've already signed an NDA with the county commissioners in my county.

The more I think about it, the less I believe there's any upside to letting them come through, and I and several residents have already voiced this opinion to our commissioners. I'm uneasy as to why they need an NDA. I worry about the power bills going up. The area is already in a drought this year. We have had issues before with companies not respecting the land and treating the county as a waste site for their run off and we've spent a long time trying to clean up and shed that image.

Frankly, I just want to see the other side? Why are people pushing so hard for these AI data centers?

Hey everyone,

My family owns a large piece of vacant desert land in the Southwest (100+ acres), and I’ve been trying to learn how people actually determine whether land has legitimate data center potential or if it’s just speculation.
We’re very early in the process and not assuming the property is worth anything special. Just trying to learn before wasting time or money.
A few things the land might have going for it:
flat/open acreage
lower density area
power infrastructure appears to be nearby

Main questions:
What are the true make-or-break factors?
How important is distance to substations/transmission?
How critical is nearby fiber?
Who should someone talk to first — utilities, civil engineers, brokers, site selection consultants?
What early due diligence is usually done before spending serious money?
Are developers still looking at secondary markets or mainly sticking to established hubs now?
Would really appreciate honest feedback from anyone in development, utilities, engineering, brokerage, etc.
Thanks.