Chad Wahlquist
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 4 Jun
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We don't really have a need for that, but it's, there's a partnership on the technical side, but there's also just on the like conceptual side of the fact that like we're aligned, cause we do care about conservation.
You know, there was a lot of green stuff that was like, you know, not stuff that we care about, but we do care about conserving our land and putting data centers in space just makes a ton of sense, but that being a couple of years out.
So for today,
You know, I'm actually pretty passionate about this because in my hometown of Saline, Michigan, it's like small town, mostly farmland.
They're putting a data center in there and it's like, you know, 30 miles from Detroit and Flint and like all these very industrialized areas.
And so it's very confusing to me why we wouldn't be putting these data center and they're like struggling areas.
Detroit's doing all right, but like Flint struggling big time.
why not put a data center there where there's already the infrastructure, it's already developed land, but instead it's like taking these small townships and plopping them in the middle.
And the people don't really like it.
Now the boards seem to like it for some reason, the councils.
I don't know what's up with that, but it doesn't align.
I actually this is kind of outside, but something that I do think is probably going to happen is, you know, there was this big shift to go to the cloud, right?
It's like everybody kind of had their own servers, you know, it's on prem and now we're in the cloud.
And it's like, really, you just took you like moved it across the street, right?
And now that people are becoming more aware of what that means, and when it's like, oh, my data's in AWS, or it's like, and maybe this is a global company, and how much can I really trust this company, that there's gonna be a shift back to actually caring about where your data is living.
So I think a good business opportunity would be, I think there's a world where there's a culture that comes up around data centers, because like me personally,
Like, I want to build, like, my house is, like, I'll have a kill switch for my Wi-Fi.
And then, like, we've got the data in the basement.
You've got your raw milk supply.
I mean, I was ready to go off the grid before I came and joined the government.
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