Our team was definitely #UpToSomethin this year. Proud to deliver best in class client outcomes and looking forward to what’s ahead in 2024. #Office#CRE#Deals
I can’t help but think an investment like this might’ve landed in Chicago if the city and state hadn’t driven Ken Griffin out after years of conflict over politics, public safety, and the city’s/state’s direction. People who dismiss him simply because “he’s a billionaire” overlook that Griffin gave to Chicago in the old civic tradition of Field and Rosenwald. Griffin’s departure was a loss for us.
It is 6:46 pm and I have talked myself all the way into Case Keenum being awesome tonight.
Please respect my decision. There will be no questions at this time
Miraculous Iowa final drive for the win. The football gods spoke. Dumb Michigan penalty didn’t help, followed by a tipped completion, then the winning TD. Those big Hawkeye targets paid off.
No one had a problem with data centers for decades until it became politically expedient... If you care about "health, safety, and quality of life" issues, then why are we developing a casino, putting up slot machines in convenience stores and opening weed shops on every corner?
Seems like the common motivating factor is needing tax revenue - but I guess tax revenue tied to technology is bad now... I thought revenue is revenue?
The truth is that data centers - especially new ones - operate safely and efficiently (particularly with closed loop water cooling). The driving force of higher electricity rates here is our misguided power and energy laws at the state level (see below post).
What happens when we say we want more EVs and electrification of industry, but also make it harder to build more baseload power and prematurely retire reliable generation assets?...
If anything, data centers can help lower power costs by helping build more generation and apportioning fixed costs like transmission and distribution over more users.
Also, the type of data centers the critics have in mind - massive 500 MW + construction projects - aren't getting built in city limits anyways! This is all incredibly frustrating to witness.
The city needs growth and revenue - and we are turning it down under false pretenses for very misinformed political reasons.
One of the world’s biggest data centers, in Memphis, uses about as much water in a year as 2.5 @innoutburger locations
Chicago’s current strategy is to have neither
You’ve never faced a fraction of the pressure Caleb carries, either during your failed football career or whatever career you’re playing pretend with now. He’s a young kid with enormous expectations who let the emotions hit during a scare. Good. Let him feel it. Chicago has broad shoulders, and this city has his back.
Thread on Caleb Williams' hamstring injury:
Caleb Williams went down in today's game without a single defender touching him.
That isn't bad luck. It's the most predictable way a hamstring fails, and it happens in about a tenth of a second.
Sports medicine surgeon Dr. Jorge Chahla explains:
At age 52, Ichiro just threw a 127-pitch shutout with 17 strikeouts during an All-Star game against the best high school girls in Japan. https://t.co/998J5c4U2E
I’m sorry but America did not spend 250 years turning “what’s over there?” into the most powerful civilization on earth just to finally arrive at the most consequential technological frontier in generations and decide actually we’re scared of frontiers now. We ARE the fucking frontier. We cross oceans. We build railroads across continents. We split atoms. We put men on the moon. We turn sand into computers and computers into a global nervous system.
Of COURSE AI is terrifying. The frontier is SUPPOSED to scare the shit out of you. That’s how you know you have, in fact, located the fucking frontier.
The answer is not recklessness, but it sure as fuck isn’t paralysis either. America’s comparative advantage is an unusually high national tolerance for ambitious weirdos staring at impossible things and saying “Yeah... I think I can build it.” That trait is rarer than oil, harder to manufacture than semiconductors, and responsible for a frankly preposterous amount of the modern world.
And you absolutely will not fucking regulate it out of us.