You think you know about #FlockCameras?
There is an AI camera scanning your license plate right now in 49 states.
Most Americans have never heard of the company behind it.
It is called Flock Safety.
And what it actually does will shock you.
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JUST IN: Trump is reportedly expected to sign an AI oversight order as soon as tomorrow asking companies to provide new AI models to the government before public release.
President Trump’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge is putting America first.
He’s calling on the nation’s leading AI companies to build, bring, or buy 100% of the energy they need for their data centers.
No more sticking Americans with the bill. ⚡
The US Department of Energy just mapped every data center in America.
This is what the AI power grid looks like.
The dots are data centers.
Yellow = operating.
Orange = under construction.
White = planned.
The lines are high-voltage transmission 735kV, 500kV, 345kV the arteries that move electrons from generators to compute loads.
Look at the density along the East Coast, Northern Virginia to the Carolinas.
Then look at Texas.
Then Northern California.
The largest circles on this map represent facilities demanding over 5,000 MW of power.
Single campuses pulling more electricity than mid-sized cities.
Northern Virginia is so dense the dots overlap.
Data centers cluster on transmission corridors.
Not because land is cheap because power is available.
When the line is full, the next data center goes somewhere else.
The grid is the bottleneck.
Every orange dot is a power purchase agreement being negotiated right now.
Every white dot is a utility commission filing, a gas plant approval, a pipeline capacity booking.
The $66.8 bn NextEra-Dominion deal, Meta's 10 new gas plants in Louisiana, the Alaska LNG FID push they all trace back to maps that look like this.
AI infrastructure is built in substations, on transmission corridors, and at the end of gas pipelines.
Link in the comments, to see my stocks 👇
Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.
You think you know about #FlockCameras?
There is an AI camera scanning your license plate right now in 49 states.
Most Americans have never heard of the company behind it.
It is called Flock Safety.
And what it actually does will shock you.
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