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Meta just bumped its Texas data center investment from $1.5B to $10B overnight.
That’s a 6x increase in one announcement.
Here’s what’s really going on 🧵

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Week 1 done.
$10B dropped in Texas. The biggest US construction project ever announced.

Politicians trying to shut it all down. Southeast Asia going nuclear.

And most people still have no idea this is happening.
That’s why this account exists👀

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@OmerCheeema AI drops 90% cheaper to run by 2030.

And yet they’re still pouring concrete for $10 billion data centers.

Cheaper doesn’t mean less.

It means everyone uses it.

The buildings always get bigger.

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@Beth_Kindig Everyone’s watching the stock.

Nobody’s asking what $20 trillion actually has to look like in the real world.

The land. The power. The water. The buildings.

That’s not a stock chart problem.

That’s a construction problem.

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@rohanpaul_ai The chip shortage never really ended.

It just moved to a different chip.

AI is hoovering up everything — GPUs, CPUs, memory, power.

Your next laptop upgrade just got more expensive because of a data center you’ll never see👀

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@r0ck3t23 One room. One box. Nobody wanted it.

Now entire countries are rebuilding their power grids just to keep it running.
The world’s biggest infrastructure boom started in a second floor room

Wild.

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@dcdnews $700 billion.
In one year.
That’s more than the GDP of Switzerland spent on AI infrastructure alone👀

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@dcdnews Look at that photo.
$10 billion dropped in the middle of nowhere Texas.
No neighbours. No distractions. Just desert and a power line.
This is what the AI land grab actually looks like up close.

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@RAG1908 @dcdnews See passive income is great until your electricity bill doubles.
Anyone else’s gone through the roof lately?
Drop the % increase below 👇

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5/ Hydrogen. Nuclear. Gas. Solar.
Big Tech is drafting every energy source on earth just to keep AI running.
They’re not building data centers anymore.
They’re building a second power grid — and nobody voted for it.
Follow @DataCenterWire. This is just week one.

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The AI infrastructure boom just had its biggest week yet.
Here’s 5 stories that should have been front page news 🧵

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4/ Southeast Asia has never built a nuclear power plant.
Until now.
Five countries are going nuclear for one reason — AI data centers need power that never stops.

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@NVIDIADC 35x more performance per megawatt.
Read that again.
NVIDIA just made the entire last generation of AI infrastructure look obsolete overnight.
The data centers being built right now?
They’re already being redesigned around this.
The pace of this is genuinely hard to

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@NVIDIADC 6 months → 3 months → 2 weeks.
That’s how fast NVIDIA just compressed AI factory deployment.
The money was never the problem.
The land was never the problem.
Time was always the last thing Big Tech couldn’t buy.
Now they’ve solved that too.

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@NVIDIADC The “AI factory” isn’t a buzzword anymore.
It’s a physical building. With power. Cooling. And now its own modular storage layer.
The companies building the infrastructure around the chip — not just the chip itself — are where the real wealth is being created.

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@NVIDIAAIDev Every one of these models needs a data center to run on.
NVIDIA builds the brain. Someone still has to build the building.
That’s where the next trillion dollars is going.

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@dcdnews Oracle and OpenAI walked away from this site.
Microsoft walked straight in.
That’s not a coincidence — that’s a sign of who’s quietly winning the AI infrastructure race right now.👀