Ann Vaughan

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The MeatEater Podcast · Ep. 902: The Pros, Cons, and Complications of Data Centers · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

And so all of a sudden, what was an empty field in front of him almost looked like a future airport or something.

Was he pissed?

He wasn't there that day when I knocked on his door.

But I'm telling you, he might have had a really different view.

And so there are some growing pains and some real concerns about growth.

Well, it's 25% of power in the state goes to data centers.

And probably growing.

Yes.

But I mean, one thing that is, you know, a very hot topic of conversation that would be good for everybody is something called grid utilization, which we all, as a

as a society, contribute to shared resources.

And the power grid is one of those.

And we are not utilizing the grid that we've already paid for to the extent that we could be.

But technology is only now helping us understand how far up that level of headroom you could really go safely.

And so there's all these new technologies and technologies

utilities are starting to be open to it to say, hey, yes, we do need to build more power, but turns out the grid is only, you know, actually we're only using 30 to 50% of the power that we've already built on a given day because we overbuilt it for those days of peak power demand.

I see, yeah.

And our ability as a human mind to do the simulations to figure out how far you could push it

Just didn't go that far.

So we just built a lot.

We bought a lot of extra.

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