In Reply to: Link: someone needs to fact check this BS posted by SagoBob on November 11, 2025 at 10:20:17
on another board we were having this exact debate about AI datacenters and why many of them are NOT putting solar panels on the roof and the parking lot for some reason. The reason is Trump hates solar and wind so they're afraid to put them up they think Trump will pull strings to punish them.
There's a big story in Santa Clara now there's 3 AI datacenters near Nvidia's HQ that are sitting completely empty. 2 of them are 430K Square feet the other is bigger. They are empty because there's no electricity to power them, Santa Clara runs on city power not PG&E and they don't have the capacity to power those buildings, and might not for YEARS. But they're still building more data centers because
that's what is powering the Trump economy, all these AI companies are spending billions on data centers in a circle buying chips and this and that from each other propping up the economy his tariffs are killing.
So they can't stop building, again Sarah Winchester, but they don't even have electricity for them. Microsoft said they have a building sitting there full of GPU's ready to go, that's idle because they can't power it
And meanwhile Trump won't let anybody put solar there to supplement the power. It won't make anywhere near enough to power the datacenter mind you but if you can get even 5% of the power needed at each of these sites from solar it reduces the demand for other power.
In the Philippines corrupt politicians stole money intended for flood abatement projects and now they're losing thousands of lives to flooding because of it. Here it's going to be us losing the AI "race" to China because Trump won't let us use Solar and Wind while China is using both, and nuclear and coal and is thus WAY ahead of us in power buildout