INFarmer

Christian, grain market/crop insurance advisor, someone who takes Purdue Basketball way too seriously, and IN farmer.

[Ted S @ClearReason]

Being pro-Palestinian should mean opposing Hamas.

Hamas has brought Palestinians war, repression and ruin in pursuit of Israel’s destruction.

Defeating Hamas is not anti-Palestinian.

It’s pro-Palestinian.

[David ☧ @david_j1186]

Saying “I am an American” while posing with a monument that records your ancestor’s treason is really something.

[The Viscount ⚓️🇺🇲 @Viscountpost]

This pic isn't a warning to us. It's a warning to other countries. We will take your smartest, hardest-working citizens and turn them into Americans. We're a machine and you can't stop us. Look upon our soft power and despair.

[INFarmer @hchastain008]

@JoelWBerry If we'd rebuilt there's a chance in 100 years random passerbys wouldn't stop and think about the impact this event had. They'd forget. And with this design they can't forget. I think that's a good thing

[INFarmer @hchastain008]

@NikithaRai135 An underrated aspect of the design is that you can't pass it and forget the impact it had. If we had rebuilt, you think in 100 years passerbys would remember that location and the towers falling? With this, people can't forget, and that's a good thing

[Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow]

When the public learns the truth about data centers, including water and electricity use, its support grows. But the degrowth Marxists and Woke Right Luddites are hellbent on sabotaging the new Industrial Revolution and deceiving the public.

Local governments and zoning boards, of course, have the most input on location, etc.

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[Jensen Huang @JensenHuang]

Gavin, spot on.

AI is bringing manufacturing back to America and reindustrializing the nation after decades of offshoring.

AI is creating demand that drives investment in our aging power grid and sustainable energy, powered by market forces, not subsidies.

AI is creating construction and manufacturing jobs across energy plants, chip fabs and data centers.

AI is creating new companies and industries. $400 billion has been invested in AI startups in the past six months alone.

Builders must partner with communities to build in their hometowns, earn trust and create local benefits.

We have an opportunity to create lasting benefits for communities across America and help America lead the next industrial revolution.

[Gavin Baker @GavinSBaker]

Regret the tone of my post on data centers yesterday.

What I should have said:

There were reasonable concerns about data centers 18ish months ago: water, taxes, jobs, electricity prices, the environment and what they would do to small towns. Well-structured data center projects have largely addressed these concerns today and we should be celebrating this.

On balance, data centers are awesome for America in every way.

On water: U.S. data centers use a fraction of what golf courses use. A lot of the numbers from 18 months ago were off by over 1000x. Newer data centers use closed-loop systems or recycled water. Should be required by every town approving a data center project.

On taxes: looking only at sales-tax exemptions, as Ronan Farrow did, is the wrong way to evaluate this. Data centers pay significant property taxes. Loudoun County, which is the wealthiest county in America, now collects on the order of $1 billion a year from data centers. In Quincy, WA, data centers are more than half the property-tax roll. Over time, property taxes can go to zero while government spending increases in these towns.

On jobs: this has been unambiguously awesome for blue collar Americans. Demand for electricians, plumbers, welders, HVAC techs, and contractors has gone vertical, and it is not a one-time construction job. These buildings get upgraded and expanded over time. That is why the building trades are fighting for them, and why some unions are now treating opposition to data centers as a reason not to endorse politicians.

On power: the original fear was that households would pay for the incremental electricity demand in the form of higher prices. That is why the ratepayer-protection deals and the new large-load tariffs exist. The right structure is: the data center brings or pays for new generation and signs a contract long enough that existing customers are protected. Where that is happening, utilities are cutting or freezing residential rates and saying so on the record. Where it is not, people are right to object. Electricity prices are going down *today* in a number of large states because of data centers.

On the environment: data centers overwhelming use natural gas today, which is the cleanest power source outside of nuclear, solar and wind. And the companies that are building the data centers are committed to carbon neutrality such that an equivalent amount of solar will likely be built. Maybe more importantly, the data centers need batteries to function effectively and these batteries can also sell energy back into the grid (which recently prevented blackouts in Texas). Over time, data centers will run on solar plus batteries.

On the towns: Poverty in Quincy, WA fell from 29% to 6%. Data center taxes paid for a new high school, a hospital, a library, police and fire stations. This is happening in many left for dead former mill and farm towns that had no other bidder for the land.

Data centers are actually reindustrializing parts of America and creating the kind of working-class jobs both parties have spent decades claiming to support. That should not be a partisan issue. Data centers can and should be awesome for America and they increasingly, overwhelmingly are. Supporting the outsourcing of data centers to China will likely age just as well as support for the outsourcing of high quality, blue collar manufacturing jobs to China has aged.

When the facts change, I change my mind. I hope that reasonable people who had good faith reasons to oppose data centers at least consider updating their beliefs given the change in the facts over the last 18 months. This really matters for America.

I will say I also think the idea of making data centers beautiful is a good one that has yet to be implemented. Data centers should be just as beautiful as Grand Central Station. We can learn a lot from the railroad buildout. Neoclassical revival ftw.

Might write up open-weight AI tomorrow as this is equally essential to America.

[INFarmer @hchastain008]

@justinamash I didn't even vote for the guy but he's right. If we turn away data centers were going to lose the AI race and that will be unequivocally bad for the US long term

[INFarmer @hchastain008]

@TheHistoryGuy07 Christian Scholar John Walton has a lot to say in this in his book series. Eg based on the word usage, Adam and Eve were 'first' as in elect and representing humanity, but don't need to be literally the first.

[INFarmer @hchastain008]

@JuanAG_IT I had Grok run a historical analysis of PF vs USDA in % change and this is effectively what I'd arrived at as well. Not sure if mine was as comprehensive as yours but either way, I think it's a believable number

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

AI supremacy and energy dominance underpins our national security.

China continues to fuel and benefit from our overreaction.

I reject the political pandering and hyperbole over data centers or AI doomsdaying.

[INFarmer @hchastain008]

@shamman76 @Daily_MailUS I've never read his work myself but he was on a podcast by Undeceptions who covers this topic, one episode that's excellent. Heiser makes the point that both sides have a lot of ammo, I don't think he has a lean himself. I maybe lean towards late date but I'm not 100%

[INFarmer @hchastain008]

@shamman76 @Daily_MailUS James Hoffmeier isn't securlar but he is an incredibly well regarded scholar and he makes great points. Dr Michael Heiser talks about both views in his Exodus series on the Naked Bible Podcast (also a well regarded Christian scholar)

[INFarmer @hchastain008]

@shamman76 @Daily_MailUS He would be if you subscribe to the Late Date belief. Early daters obviously would disagree, but there's credible evangical scholars who could build arguments for both. A key one on the late date side is James Hoffmeier

[INFarmer @hchastain008]

@DrFisura @AntoniusOhii Christian ANE Scholar John Walton argues Genesis describes functional origin, not material. In the ANE, things existed when given order and purpose. The 7 days are a 24-hour ceremony declaring the cosmos as God’s temple, eg the text says nothing about the physical age of Earth

[INFarmer @hchastain008]

@logistrix @5Solas Don't mistake this as me saying that Walton is arguing that God didn't materially create humans or whatever circumstances that led to them. God is instrumental in every step, but Genesis isn't a story if God materially creating us. It is God giving us purpose in life

[INFarmer @hchastain008]

@logistrix @5Solas Purpose, functional means purpose. Before Genesis humans existed but didn't have a purpose. Genesis and the creation account is an ANE way of God revealing himself to them and giving them a purpose as priests and intercessors for God.

[INFarmer @hchastain008]

@logistrix @5Solas I understand your argument, I'm saying you're wrong, and Waltons interpretation is why.

[INFarmer @hchastain008]

@logistrix @5Solas To end, Walton and others like Dr. Michael Heiser would say Genesis doesn't endorse or refute evolution. One can believe anything about science and stay faithful to the Bible. Genesis is the story of how God gave purpose to humanity.

[INFarmer @hchastain008]

@logistrix @5Solas Another key way, the desert in ANE cultures or deep waters in the ocean was a form of non-existence despite literally existing. For something to exist to them it needed a purpose for humanity