Wes Cummins

But also where we cite these back to the kind of the Bitcoin data center roots.

You know, we we had a lot of experience in citing these in places where we don't disrupt people, where noises don't disrupt people so that.

You know, I've purchased soybean fields, I've purchased cotton fields, right?

And we build these out where there's not population for a reason.

And it's because the power is there.

And then also, we don't want to be disruptive in thousands and thousands of people's lives.

So we're not building data centers in Dallas.

We're not building more data centers in Northern Virginia, right?

We're not building these where you're just trying to get incremental power on the grid.

We're building them in places where there's power that goes unused.

You know, Ellendale, we have the perfect case study for this in Ellendale, North Dakota.

We built our first campus.

There's two gigawatts of wind power that feed into a substation.

We co-located right next to that substation.

The utility doesn't have to build really any new infrastructure or anything that they do have to build.

We pay for so that it doesn't go into the rate base and increase rates for the rate payers, the electricity users outside of us pay for everything.

Then we use a lot of electricity where that wind feeds in.

And a lot of times they would just have to curtail those wind turbines because

There was not enough transmission capacity to take that energy to someone to use it.

So we're using power that wasn't being used.