Does anyone have an example where there is electricity rationing due to data centers overloading the electrical grid?

The magic elusive skills way to "never find" a "qualified US worker" needs to be closed for common positions which have thousands of US citizens working.

Supply and demand

Company - "It's extremely hard and rare to find a worker with skill XYZ"
Company - "We cannot find a us citizen with that skill even though we looked for X months"
Company - "We found a 'qualified' worker 'by chance' just graduating from a US university"
Company - "To be fair we will pay them at the 50% of the prevailing wage for an entry level or 1 job title above entry level worker pay"

Supply of the workers is "very rare" yet pay for the workers is average at best.

Don't the corporate CEOs make the same argument that there are so few of them that they all need to be paid millions by year?

Supply and demand.

For example H1B visas should not be granted for entry level QA tester jobs.

The "editorial independence" appears to be in the same vein as how large corporations have faculty member or two from the major business schools (Harvard, Columbia, Chicago) for the academic's expert guidance. Something that is unconnected to the business school's publication of a top 5 business or management journal.

We need to plan on what to do once AI does not need all the data centers, electricity and cooling.

What is being built is based on a continual increase in compute needs and does not take into account the inevitable 100x, 1000x , ... reduction in compute cost due to better hardware or algorithms.

Fully expect at this minute that there are dozens of labs using AI to reverse engineer everything from network edge devices, motherboards, GPU support chips, firmware images, heat sink and dissipation designs, ....

One wonders how much faster (100x ?) will it be to reverse engineer critical software with AI since the AI can reverse engineer, fuzz, code, test the new code vs the original all automated by AI.

Speculation: Microsoft will be 'investing' in major countries around the world to have a local to the country cloud and AI compute.

It will allow Microsoft to sell to the government and corporations when the country passes the eventual law requiring data storage, personal data, government cloud and AI models to reside within the country for economic and security reasons.

Second speculation: Microsoft and other world's largest consumer of CPUs, memory chips, GPUs, computer motherboards, networking chips, etc. will have supply chain shortages crippling their business in 2 years if the AI use/consumption keeps growing.

The net result of 1986 to today of politics on both sides being name calling, "we're not evil like the other party", "let's accommodate and celebrate even more behavior" and "it's not my money they are wasting" is

- no progress on policy benefiting average US citizens
- a steady increase in government spending and debt burden on each US citizen
- elected officials who do nothing to help average people and practice aging in place or office holder for life
- news reporters who parrot the same old tired worn out issues and the same tired old worn out talking points
- a persistent and steady decline in purchasing power by nearly everyone at less than top 20% of income year after year since 1975
- a broken contaminated food and water supply with *controversial* negative effects on reproductive health (especially boys and men due to plastics and water containing birth control hormones and endocrine disrupter chemicals)

And making it acceptable on an industry wide scale to package heated food in plastic lined cans, acidic foods in plastic containers, cook foods in plastic bags in restaurants) when heating food in plastic causes plastic chemicals to leach into the food.

And letting petroleum based dyes be used in common foods for 60 years.

Predict: There will be venture capital firms using some whistleblower type law to file legal malpractice complaints on an industry wide scale in a year or two.

1. Get all the court filings in a state or federal court for the last 2 years
2. Scan via AI for all legal precedent citations
3. Find legal citations which do not exist
4. File complaints with the state bar (lawyer licensing agency), the court itself, state/federal judicial misconduct agencies
5. Find the opposing legal parties and class action sue the lawyers belonging to large law firms who used AI fake case citations for malpractice in civil court
6. Pursue disbarment proceedings against lawyers found to have filed court documents which cite non-existent legal cases

They bar for life people found to have done illegal financial trading at Wall Street firms. banks and public corporations.

Promoting and allowing even more debt at all levels and securitizing every transaction revenue stream is not going to help in the long run.

Countries need to very slowly reduce the total debt and financial derivatives in use.

Each expansion of debt beyond a point (likely in the 1990s) public or private increases the cost of living and reduces inflation adjusted wages.

Lower wages, losing out to inflation, easier to get debt means less growth, less housing, less household formation and less births.

It maybe as simple as one of the larger countries banning short selling for stocks under $20 or small cap stocks, requiring banks and lenders to keep another 1% more of each loan they issue, reducing the total face value of derivatives by 1% each year, etc.

Large changes have been done before with 1986 as an example

- Depreciation on commercial real estate and rental housing was reduced more than half
- Tax rates were cut so that building a building, keeping it empty, depreciating it, and owning it as a 70% tax bracket individual was not profitable
- Ending the income tax deduction of credit card interest

There is an end game coming where established countries and their stock markets will have a drastically shrinking financial sector with few actively traded large stocks . https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/n...

Number of publicly listed companies in Canada down 32.7% and initial public offerings down 94% since 2010, reflecting country's economic stagnation
December 18, 2025

The net long term effect is that there will be fewer and fewer places to invest one's retirement money outside of government bonds and bank CDs.

Do you have any sense of the temperature differential at different distances from the cold storage building?

Did it attract lots of birds during the winder?

With AI being all the focus for 3 years now, there is/will be a severe shortage of developers with experience in current or 5 - 10 year old development environments.

The pile of legacy technologies grows with less developers ever getting experience in

- desktop development
- mobile development
- legacy web frameworks - angular, react, ... The new HTML template replaces most of the bloated legacy react/angular framework

It's not just the percent of developers with knowledge of the legacy technology, it is the percent of them who would take a job working on a legacy technology.

The largest risk is in the cloud where it should be possible to have a meta-cloud of a cross-cloud API and runtime framework for AWS, Azure and GCP for basic web, REST, SQL, queues, blob storage applications.

Oracle has asked for over 100 H1B visas in 2026.

If they are laying off in the USA, they should be prevented from requesting any H1B or other visas for 4 years for themselves, parent companies, child companies, spin off companies, ....

Once a few companies are successful in blaming "economic topic X" on their lack of revenue growth and lack of profitability growth, many company leaders for other companies follow the same "blame economic topic X" as cover for lackluster business performance.

Wall Street analysts ask softball questions during earnings calls so that their Wall Street firm can get new business from the company being covered.

One of the indicator questions from a Wall Street analyst is "Can you provide more color on X?" asked by an analyst which lets the company management repeat their last point and expand with a sales pitch on how the company is on the right path, innovating, transforming, rebooting, or any of a thousand words which convey no meaning.

> the team found increased temperatures up to 10 kilometers away. Seven kilometers away, there was only a 30 percent reduction in the intensity. "

This entire research should be about comparing data center produced heat on-site and nearby spill over to other high energy use/high heat production industries such as steel mills.

It is the same old, same old the corporate leaders use to 1) sell a look at the infinite growth fantasy, 2) keep being employed, 3) hide that most companies in the S&P 500 excluding the mega caps have lower than inflation (a decline in inflation adjusted money) in top-line sales revenue over the last few years.

The US companies have for 20 years followed a business damaging plan to exist by cutting costs (layoffs), selling the same old products, and buying back stock instead of developing new products.

Under the surface, the 40 year outsource from the USA/EU to China has run its course and finding ever cheaper labor and ever cheaper raw materials (extracted with little or no pollution laws) is not working.

A quick google for "Mexico has lower manufacturing costs than China" yields many web pages like this
https://harris-sliwoski.com/ch...
China’s Manufacturing Exodus: How Mexico and the U.S. Are Gaining Ground - Published: July 8, 2025