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From: Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> 
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>> Projects built on federal land are always subject to the risk that is absent in power projects built on private land with private money.

 

>...Power projects are federally regulated, no matter where they are...

 

In the past, power projects needed to connect into the grid.  Current policy removes federal control of new power projects that do not connect to the grid.

 

 

 

 

 

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>  > Build it where it is out of reach of federal regulations.  Don’t invest in any power project built on federal land.  That was simple.

 

>...There is no such place...

 

 

On the contrary.  Wyoming is great for that kind of project.  Put the data center out there with it.  Use the power on site.  

 

 

Spike, virtually all that open land is federal...

 

This map doesn’t show that.  The green is National Park, the purple is government of some kind, the yellow is tribal land (which would be a great candidate for this sort of thing (the tribes would be eager to do business with Musk and Dario.)))

 

As I heard it about half of Wyoming is federal.  It’s a big damn state, plenty of room out there, plenty of sunshine, plenty of wind, hell they even have a lot of coal, natural gas, uranium and oil.  Everyone can play.  They don’t have a lot of water out there however.  Ranchers holding leases would likely be eager to deal.  There is plenty of room to set up a coal plant, place a few solar panels and wind turbines if you wish, run data centers until the singularity kills us all.  But don’t put that stuff on federal land.  It is too vulnerable to the latest fad in power generation.

 

 



 

 

 

>…I don't think a lot of wind farms, but that was an absolutely irrational whim to pay to stop the project…

 

OK, so let congress not put any money on that check.  It’s their job to stop that kind of thing.  

 

>>… Same answer for all the same reasons.  Building on federal land introduces risks that privately funded projects on private land do not carry.

 

>…I suppose that is the case in the offshore wind projects where whim at the top can shut them down. But what is the risk of irrational leadership?  Keith

 

It is very high and always has been.  The US voters choose leaders based more on the price of gasoline than any other single factor.  That means we always had a high risk of irrational leaders and always will.  That’s why the constitution put congress in charge of the money.  

 

That notion of putting AI data centers and the power plants to run them on tribal land is growing on me.  What I don’t know is what protections are in place if private investors build infrastructure on tribal lands.

 

spike

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