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[NerdyInPink @SciFi_Chic]

Hope everyone had a great 4th! AV 4th parade had quite the turnout! Looks like every big-name Dem up for reelection had the same idea — election season started early on the route. 🫏🎉
@apple_valley_mn
#FreedomDays

[NerdyInPink @SciFi_Chic]

@MayorFrey 7,000 kids in housing programs = ‘wildly successful.’ Reality: MN 3rd grade reading proficiency dropping for 4 straight years, overall scores below 50%, teachers seeing kids years behind. Stable government outcomes are missing.

[NerdyInPink @SciFi_Chic]

@EricLucero @GrageDustin If it’s such great policy, why hide the process? Transparency shouldn’t be optional in Minnesota government… or anywhere else that claims to serve the people.

[NerdyInPink @SciFi_Chic]

💡💡💡

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

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. ⚡

[Jack Prandelli @jackprandelli]

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 👇

[NerdyInPink @SciFi_Chic]

@RepAngieCraig Head Start turns 61 and still can’t close the achievement gap despite billions spent. Maybe ‘every child deserves’ actual reading/math results instead of more early government programs that underdeliver.

[NerdyInPink @SciFi_Chic]

@amyklobuchar @gretchenwhitmer We train workers on today’s tech by not chasing them out with high taxes and regulations first. Innovation thrives when government gets out of the way, not when it ‘builds on our culture’ with more programs.

[NerdyInPink @SciFi_Chic]

@peggyflanagan You raised the minimum wage, expanded entitlements, and now want a Senate seat. Meanwhile property taxes spike and kids’ test scores lag. ‘Bold’ sounds a lot like ‘expensive’ in Minnesota lately.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🚨 WOWWW — UTAH — the brilliant young women @kevinolearytv 🤥 accused of being Chinese ops just discovered Utah speaker of the house Mike Schultz (Republican) bought 640 acres of land right next to the data center site just 2 months before it was announced.

Incredible find.

[NerdyInPink @SciFi_Chic]

@JakePenn4 @NortonMpls #receipts
‘You’re just scaring yourself.’
The irony writes itself. 😂

[NerdyInPink @SciFi_Chic]

@JakePenn4 @NortonMpls I was literally there last night — downtown was dead quiet with barely any crowds despite the Guthrie show. That’s exactly why I had to watch my back and bailed early solo to reach my car safely. Even on a Friday it felt sketchy before the weekend crowd shows up.

[NerdyInPink @SciFi_Chic]

Ansley, thank you for sharing this. We just went through the exact same fight in Apple Valley, Minnesota, against a massive hyperscaler data center (Oppidan’s proposed Apple Valley Technology Park) right here.
It looked like a done deal — huge developer, local officials involved — but our community organized, showed up at the meetings, raised awareness about the insane water usage, power demands, noise, and environmental impact, and we got it denied by the City Council in late March. It really did feel like a miracle.
You’re not alone. It CAN be stopped. Keep fighting, document everything, pack the meetings, and reach out to neighboring communities for support.
Here’s some coverage of our win:
• https://t.co/IrxU3lKZnb
• https://t.co/ayzHB1VQG2
Sending solidarity and strength from up north — you’ve got this! 💪

[NerdyInPink @SciFi_Chic]

Complex energy transitions need abundance thinking. Good piece from @matthewyglesias on why we should aim for truly plentiful clean energy rather than simplified political talking points. https://t.co/5i5lsMed2c

[NerdyInPink @SciFi_Chic]

@amyklobuchar Complex energy transitions deserve more than simplified political talking points. The tradeoffs and downstream impacts — on engines, food prices, land use, and actual emissions — matter too.

[NerdyInPink @SciFi_Chic]

@amyklobuchar Firefighters are doing heroic work on the ground 💪. Hopefully our leadership becomes just as serious about prevention and long-term stewardship as they are about post-disaster messaging.

[NerdyInPink @SciFi_Chic]

@amyklobuchar Nothing says accountability like approving infrastructure first and explaining the downstream costs later. 🔦

💡Modern technology without modern oversight just scales old problems faster. ⚡️

[NerdyInPink @SciFi_Chic]

@garrytan Political incentives move faster than infrastructure reality.

[NerdyInPink @SciFi_Chic]

This is not anti-development.

It is pro-proof.

If jobs justified the project → measure the jobs after construction ends.
If green energy justified it → show the energy ledger.
If infrastructure readiness justified it → show who paid for the readiness.

The public does not need panic. It needs a ledger.

#WhoReallyPays 🧵

[NerdyInPink @SciFi_Chic]

A data center does not arrive alone.

It arrives with a power question, a water question, a sewer question, and a public finance question.

Residents are told each piece is separate. They’re not.

🧵 New piece: Who Really Pays? #WhoReallyPays

https://t.co/P1NNbJzQX9

[NerdyInPink @SciFi_Chic]

Wisconsin requires a Public Facilities Needs Assessment before any development-related infrastructure fee.

It inventories existing capacity, projects growth demand, and estimates costs by service area.

Minnesota has no equivalent requirement.

That gap is why residents here have to ask harder questions themselves.