Ann Vaughan

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

And you're using techniques and workers who came from an industry that either needs the work or needs to be transitioned into a cleaner form, but have the skills.

Yeah.

That's been a popular thing.

And that's, you know, here we are in Montana.

Some of the interesting projects on that are near you.

There's work being done in Utah and in Nevada.

And there's work on this, you know, enhanced geothermal in Texas.

There's a lot going on in that.

So you have to get the cost down, but they're actually making great progress getting the cost down.

viewers here, but I think we're, like I said earlier, we're at the beginning of this more of an industrial revolution that is catalyzed by AI.

We think today of energy demand for things like chatbot prompts, but we're going into an era of physical AI, where all of this high-performance computing is going to be used to guide cars, guide robots,

in factories, make, you know, whether you like it or not, weaponry autonomous.

Sure, yeah.

You know, change the way industrial automation makes things so that we possibly can make factories viable again.

A lot of that demand and a lot of that, you know, just activity to make that happen is just barely beginning.

So we may end up just creating more energy generation to feed more applications of AI than we can imagine today.

And so that's where it gets a little scary.

You think about the ramp up and how this could change everything.

It can bring positives and it can bring negatives.

And I think one of the things that I'm trying to do is look at what each side wishes the other would acknowledge about both the promise and the peril of what is facing us.

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