Paul Kedrosky
speaker
1,259 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6d ago
Paul Kedrosky’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This has consequences because...
The arrow of time only moves in one direction.
I defy you to find an example of the old talking head song where this used to be a parking lot and now it's covered with flowers.
The data center is not going to reverse.
Once you build these giant things in the real world with real consequences in terms of...
sprawling out physically but also sitting on top of water and power, untangling that becomes really, really difficult, as does, for example, having to spin up all of these new natural gas plants to power these things because we're increasingly asking that hyperscalers come with their own power behind the meter.
Right, right, right.
When we're doing that at the worst possible time because the combination of batteries and alternative sources ranging from wind and solar, for example, are becoming much more effective and able to be more persistent with battery backup.
And yet we're installing these CO2 intensive things with 30 and 40 year lifespans funded by debt that are almost all likely to end up being stranded assets.
They'll be like the statues at Easter Island eventually, except natural gas plants.
I think anything that's targeted over a gigawatt doesn't get finished.
It's just... I'll give you an even more... It's an even more insidious than that.
And I spend a lot of time trying to talk off the ledge, if you will, various regional economic development people.
I was just talking to some people in New Mexico about this.
And the problem they have is they've been trying to land some large employer for 25 years in these high unemployment regions.
And so I'm entirely sympathetic to the problem that a data center hyperscaler shows up and says, listen,
Let me install this.
Give me the following giveaways with respect to taxes.
And this will eventually, after construction, we'll have this many jobs and so on.
And you don't have to keep fighting for the Hyundai battery factory or the Ford assembly plant or whatever else.
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