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Welcome to the podcast. I'm your host, Jaden Schaefer.

I apologize for not posting for the last week. I was at a wedding in Hawaii for my brother, which was amazing. But we are getting back into the swing of things.

And I think I over guessed how much work I'd be able to get done from a hotel room in Hawaii. Somehow, the motivation is low when the

beach is across the street. So we're getting back into things, but had a great break there.

Today on the show, I want to talk about a really interesting story that I have been

alluding to this and to the point where I thought I was going crazy. And that is that AI data

centers had the authorization while back and I think the kind of like blessing or the directive

from the Trump administration to build power generation facilities beside the data center

because right now we basically have a massive problem where all of these data centers are

getting built. They're taking energy from the grid of the local communities. And because a lot of

them are subsidized, right, these local communities are subsidizing the data centers being built

and the energy because they want all the

jobs that they bring. But because of that, the energy costs in the communities around the data

centers does go up. Anytime something to subsidize, someone has to pay for. And because of that,

the electrical companies are increasing the costs. And I've actually personally seen this in

Arizona. Um, I live currently in North Carolina, but I have a home and a podcast studio in Arizona because I live there for five years. And it is insanely expensive. The electrical costs have gone up a ton. There's a lot of infrastructure and other projects. For us, it's more like chip fabs that are coming in that are subsidized and stuff, but it's the same concept.

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