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🗓️ 12 August 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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0:00.0 | Earlier this summer, Texas monthly reporter Russell Gold took a trip to Dickens County. |
0:10.6 | It's a remote and rural area of Texas. |
0:13.6 | This is High Plains, Texas. |
0:15.7 | There's not a lot out there and you're just driving mile after mile after mile of sort |
0:19.7 | of rolling land. |
0:22.1 | And then Google Maps tells you to turn off onto this dirt road, which doesn't make a lot |
0:26.1 | of sense. |
0:27.1 | And then all of a sudden, sort of behind this large electrical substation is this enormous |
0:33.1 | warehouse in the middle of nowhere. |
0:38.2 | It's about three football fields long. |
0:40.8 | It's a white warehouse type metal frame facility. |
0:46.5 | And what's sort of fascinating about it is that lining both sides are these giant air cooling |
0:54.2 | machines. |
0:55.3 | As Russell drove down the dirt road towards the warehouse, he felt mud dwelling up around |
1:00.6 | his tires. |
1:01.6 | Then he noticed an 18 wheel truck stuck in the mud ahead. |
1:05.9 | He called the warehouse manager who came to pick him up in a golf cart and the two |
1:10.1 | sped off down this dirt road. |
1:12.6 | I can see him get nervous because it's pretty clear that the battery on this golf |
1:19.0 | cart starting to die. |
1:20.4 | And he's switching between sort of the jack rabbit mode and the snail mode trying to get |
1:24.4 | a little more juice. |
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