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The John Batchelor Show

Brandon Weichert discusses AI growth driven by massive data centers, facing bottlenecks in land, energy, and fresh water access. The Chips Act struggles; the economic boom risks are significant if high-end chip access is lost.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Brandon Weichert discusses AI growth driven by massive data centers, facing bottlenecks in land, energy, and fresh water access. The Chips Act struggles; the economic boom risks are significant if high-end chip access is lost.

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This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel. AI report with Brandon Weikert of national interest.

0:40.9

It was very helpful to me because he sees a part of the market of AI. I get lost lost wandering around war zones and don't look to the future.

0:42.1

Brandon, a very good evening to you.

0:43.6

My contribution to our conversation is Nvidia blossomed this week in its interest in

0:51.3

data centers.

0:52.6

$100 billion devoted from Jensen Wang's NVIDIA to Sam Lumpin's Open AI,

1:00.0

to build data centers the scale of which we can only imagine at this point.

1:05.0

Big stuff.

1:06.0

Now, they can build all that, but it matters where and what their resources are.

1:11.7

Yeah.

1:12.0

What can you tell me about that story of rollout in America?

1:15.9

Because there's manufacturing centers for cars, there are steel plants.

1:23.5

There are certainly plenty of opportunity for oil rigs and oil processing.

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