Ben Thompson
speaker
42,103 appearances
120 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 21 Aug
Ben Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And by the way, in the meantime, there's still a lot of places to build data centers, particularly in places like West Texas.
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To his point, this bit about there's they actually have more natural gas than they know to do it.
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Because it it's a byproduct of extracting oil.
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And yet they
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literally just set it on fire.
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Yeah.
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Right?
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Because they can't get rid of it.
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So uh it'd be it's actually a net positive.
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It is carbon positive to the earth to build a day center instead of flaring it up.
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A lot of
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existing data centers have been retrofitted for AI were Bitcoin for the same idea because look we can just monetize X actually what is excess energy and then everyone's like, oh wait, I know it's better than Bitcoin.
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AI like let's make tokens.
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Like tear it all out, put put stuff in there.
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There's this whole ecosystem of like rando old school, like what what was the name for like people
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Wildcats or uh yeah, wildcatters.
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Uh yeah, wildcatters.
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That would just like find oil wells and stuff.
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Stop.
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Like that's going on with AI and finding places to put GPUs.
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