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It’s a 98° night, your kid’s Chromebook is at 6%, your mom’s CPAP is humming, and across town a million-sq-ft server hall is sipping from the same grid. Who gets the next watt—your block, the NICU, or the data center?
Today, we go inside Memphis, where xAI’s Colossus and Colossus 2 run on “temporary” gas turbines while the city races to build substations and a wastewater plant. We connect the dots to America’s blackout history (’65, ’77, ’03, Texas ’21) and a new DOE warning that outage hours could jump 100× by 2030 without more firm power. Then we open your closet: fast fashion’s water, waste, and microplastics are the same “instant everything” problem showing up on your light bill.
Receipts. Clear asks for utilities, brands, schools, and us. Next week: the triangle shaping daily life—AI × data centers × education—what kids learn, who pays the bill, and where your data actually lives.
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