Not good at all, and everything this administration does comes with bullshit attached to it, and this is no different.
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Not good at all, and everything this administration does comes with bullshit attached to it, and this is no different.
The biggest power
grab since Standard Oil is happening today and almost nobody is paying attention.
Tech companies are building their own power grid.
They're about to produce more electricity than entire COUNTRIES.
Right now at the White House, CEOs from Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI are signing a pledge that most people will scroll past.
But it might be the most important business deal of the decade.
They're committing to build, bring, or buy 100% of their own electricity for every new AI data center.
Their own power plants. Their own transmission lines. Their own energy infrastructure.
These are SOFTWARE companies agreeing to become power utilities.
Here's why this matters for everyone reading this:
By the end of this year, at least 5 US data centers will each consume over 1 gigawatt of continuous power.
1 gigawatt powers 850,000 homes. 5 of these facilities will use more electricity than some entire countries.
The US grid physically cannot handle it.
Capacity prices in the PJM grid, which covers 13 states, exploded from $28.92 per megawatt-day to $329.17 in just two years. That's literally a 1,000% increase.
So what do you do when the grid can't support you?
You stop using the grid.
Amazon is buying nuclear reactors. Microsoft restarted Three Mile Island.
Meta signed 20-year nuclear deals.
Chevron is building a 2.5 gigawatt natural gas plant in West Texas specifically to power data centers.
These companies aren't supplementing the grid. They're replacing it. For themselves.
Think about what's actually happening here:
7 companies now control more computing power than most governments. And today they're signing paperwork to control their own energy supply too.
Computing. Data. Energy. Infrastructure.
That's not a "tech" company anymore.
A Harvard energy law professor already called the pledge "meaningless" because utilities in PJM are spending tens of billions on power projects for data centers and those costs are STILL being spread across ratepayers anyway.
The pledge has zero legal teeth. No enforcement mechanism. No compliance monitoring. No penalty for breaking it.
It's a political move designed to get tech companies through the midterms without becoming the villain of every campaign ad about electricity bills.
But the underlying shift is real and irreversible:
Tech companies are becoming energy companies.
Energy companies are becoming AI infrastructure.
And the line between Big Tech and Big Energy is about to disappear completely.
The big question here:
When seven companies control both the world's intelligence AND the power that runs it, who exactly is governing who?
1 gigawatt powers 850,000 homes. 5 of these facilities will use more electricity than some entire countries.
The US grid physically cannot handle it.
Capacity prices in the PJM grid, which covers 13 states, exploded from $28.92 per megawatt-day to $329.17 in just two years. That's literally a 1,000% increase.
So what do you do when the grid can't support you?
You stop using the grid.
Amazon is buying nuclear reactors. Microsoft restarted Three Mile Island.
Meta signed 20-year nuclear deals.
Chevron is building a 2.5 gigawatt natural gas plant in West Texas specifically to power data centers.
These companies aren't supplementing the grid. They're replacing it. For themselves.
Think about what's actually happening here:
7 companies now control more computing power than most governments. And today they're signing paperwork to control their own energy supply too.
Computing. Data. Energy. Infrastructure.
That's not a "tech" company anymore.
A Harvard energy law professor already called the pledge "meaningless" because utilities in PJM are spending tens of billions on power projects for data centers and those costs are STILL being spread across ratepayers anyway.
The pledge has zero legal teeth. No enforcement mechanism. No compliance monitoring. No penalty for breaking it.
It's a political move designed to get tech companies through the midterms without becoming the villain of every campaign ad about electricity bills.
But the underlying shift is real and irreversible:
Tech companies are becoming energy companies.
Energy companies are becoming AI infrastructure.
And the line between Big Tech and Big Energy is about to disappear completely.
The big question here:
When seven companies control both the world's intelligence AND the power that runs it, who exactly is governing who?
YUCK!Noem is absolutely terrible! Got this job because Trump is attracted to her..
Folk been posting this tweet for weeks
Ecuador too now? Geez!
US military assists Ecuador in 1st land operation against cartels: Source
The United States and Ecuador conducted joint military operations against “designated terrorist organizations in Ecuador,” U.S. Southern Command announced Tuesday.abcnews.com
I guess he didn't see this coming.
Your hatred of the Spanish is going to come natural. Until the Spaniards concede and then you’ll love them. Whatever the sentiment they want you to feel, you will feel.
Yep, the overseas media looks like they was correct about the amount of people that may have died.
...you do realize this isn't the smartest thing to do as now you expose yourself as your politics are for sale!
If you look at the group in the suit they was suspect one was Myron of fresh n fit
Any other black folks on there??? lol
God, this admin is insufferable.
Paul Volcker. Paul Volcker. This government doesn’t intend to honor anything. You ain’t getting nuffin.
How did black folks react when Ethiopia was under attack?
I have an electric car and solar panels, do whatever you want with them. Black folks are about to take a trip back into time before 1964.
Fuck Jimmy Carter.
In the group of claimants pictured it was a bunch of cac's with him
"OTHER"??? He's yet to mention ONE!!!!
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