No... No... That porch is too close. I need to launch the packages at least 50ft in order for it to count.

Without having to worry about human rights, privacy of your citizens, a free press, and protests!

Slab works well when you can build containment and maintain a relatively stable consumption per rack. In a multi-tenant datahall raised floor is better since you can pressurize the raised floor to direct cooling where it's needed. But ya, it's silly/stupid to have your low-voltage cabling (fiber, cat6, etc.) under the floor. Should only have cooling and high-voltage (power) under floor, with cabling above the racks via ladder racking and fiber tray.

ComEd unable to commit to building out/support more utility power (need 50 MW of stable utility and distribution per building). That and zoning and permitting through State and Local government.

Exactly... My guess is these legacy IBM datacenters are built to support 2.4 - 5kW per rack... AI racks are 50-100kW per rack.

"Compute is getting constantly more dense; you can do more in less space" - yup, and how do you modify the electrical distribution, cooling infrastructure, and utility power to put more power in a legacy facility? As far as how the trend continues? Do you see society becoming less reliant on AI in the future or more reliant in the future?

These investments used to be planned years in advance. They aren't anymore. "Asks" are coming in from all sorts of AI players, and the most limiting factor is the availability of the electrical infrastructure in any particular region. Building datacenters is now reliant on four things - electrical capacity available from the utility, labor, inventory of mechanical/electrical distribution, and land bank/permitting. Data centers were definitely built with additional capacity "to just sit there" as long as there was a long-term lease for a cornerstone customer. This is why in the past it was a "buyers" market with competition driving pricing down, since multiple providers had available capacity. What we're seeing now is the large AI operators buying entire buildings and campuses of inventory, on sites that are nothing more than dirt. No building, no utility, no approved permits. Just a plan to have everything available in 1-3 years.

"A continuation of the current trends in AI capacity and adoption are set to lead to NVIDIA shipping 1.5 million AI server units per year by 2027. These 1.5 million servers, running at full capacity, would consume at least 85.4 terawatt-hours of electricity annually—more than what many small countries use in a year, according to the new assessment." - https://www.scientificamerican... Are companies going to be required to report their power usage in AI operations?

"We estimate that about 1% to 2% of the water they carry is lost to evaporation under the hot California sun." In a 2021 study... we showed that covering all 4,000 miles of California's canals with solar panels would save more than 65 billion gallons of water annually by reducing evaporation. That's enough to irrigate 50,000 acres of farmland or meet the residential water needs of more than 2 million people.... I'm sure they will accomplish an environmental analysis prior, right? I mean, that's a crap-ton (technical term) of water that will just disappear from the air mass.

not being required to make a wedding cake for a gay couple because there are plenty of other bakeries who are willing to do so. Or requiring Catholic organizations to provide birth control as part of their health insurance, right? Just making sure I'm understanding your point....

If you'll do anything, I suggest you retrain into another field. I'm almost 40... I worked in the field before the "always-connected" worker. We still had pagers and the wonderful but dated "telephone". I still got pages and phone calls at all hours, and I guarantee if I didn't respond, I would not have been getting a paycheck. It's wasn't much different than now, except you are able to actually fix something without having to shut off the TV and haul your ass into work.