Kai Ryssdal

Still empty for now.

This place is so new, man.

The whiteboard markers aren't even unwrapped.

Come on through.

This place is a lot like the Los Angeles data center we were in yesterday, just quieter, without the hum of 48 megawatts plugged into it.

Kotlin led us down a hall with industrial pipes and huge swaths of cables running all along the ceiling.

It looks like it could be a storage warehouse, honestly.

A massive room with gray slab floors, pretty bare bones everything, where cages holding servers are eventually going to go.

I'm just doing a little math here.

So this is a 430,000 square foot building.

So give or take this is 100,000 square feet, this space?

Plus or minus?

Correct.

Now a big empty room.

How long until it's literally humming with activity?

So you can't do anything until you get electricity in here, right?

Power is already the issue.

One study from Carnegie Mellon in North Carolina State found that nationwide energy costs could rise 8% by 2030 because of data centers.

And in some parts of the country, like Virginia, which is the AI data center hub, that cost increase could be more than 25%.

Sure.