Take a very specific kind of building.

Take a ride through Northern Virginia these days,

and you might notice a very specific kind of

these giant kind of warehouse buildings.

They're window lists, they're modern,

you know, they're sort of the size of the height of small office buildings, but they're just

they're popping up everywhere. Evan Halper reports on the energy transition for

the Washington Post. He says from the outside these buildings might look like your average warehouse, but inside it's more dystopian.

It's probably looks like something you've seen in a sci-Fi movie. I mean, there's just lots and lots of computer servers.

And, you know, it's just shelf after shelf

of computer equipment, not a lot of people in there,

not a lot of employees.

He's talking about data centers, huge warehouses full of computers that process everything that happens online, every photo on your

iCloud, every app on your phone, and increasingly, all the new

AI models being developed.

As Evan recently reported in the post, all these data centers are gobbling up a lot of electricity like a lot a lot and as

those new AI models get more complex they need even more power the problem there isn't

enough electricity to go around.

They're running out of power in Northern Virginia to supply all the needs of these data centers.

They ran out in Silicon Valley a long time ago, and so what's happening is the companies are just

moving to places where there's power, places we never sort of expected there to be

data centers. They're popping up all over Georgia, particularly in the Atlanta region, they're popping up all over Georgia, you know, particularly in the Atlanta region, they're popping up in, you know, Altoona, Iowa.

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