<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Fri, Jun 5, 2026 at 2:19 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4">> >… anybody wishing to build a solar or wind farm on them would need federal approval… If they don’t connect to the grid, most of the rules do not apply.</font></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><br>  <div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Nope.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span> If somebody wanted to build a solar or wind farm on Native American land<span class="gmail_default" style=""> the agreement would have to undergo a review by the bureau of Indian affairs, which by the way is controlled by the interior department, which is controlled by the president, to </span>verify that the agreement is <span class="gmail_default" style="">"</span>in the Indian landowner<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">'</span>s economic best interest<span class="gmail_default" style="">"; apparently they assume the "Indians" are not competent enough to make that decision for themselves. And as long as the present dimwit is POTUS you can be certain they will decide it is NOT </span>in the <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"</span>Indian<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"</span> landowner<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">'</span>s economic best interest<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">.</span></b></font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>The notion is that AI data centers generate their own power:<br><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/03/president-trump-secures-historic-commitment-to-keep-electricity-costs-down-amid-data-center-boom/" target="_blank" style="">https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/03/president-trump-secures-historic-commitment-to-keep-electricity-costs-down-amid-data-center-boom/</a></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b>Why <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">would</span> you give a <span class="gmail_default" style="">d</span>irect<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>link<span class="gmail_default" style=""> to the White House operated by the biggest liar on the face of the Earth? I would trust anything said on it about as far as I could spit out a rat. </span></b></font></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Solar and wind power are poorly suited to AI centers.</font></i></span></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style="">For most applications the intermittent nature of solar and wind are serious disadvantages but not so much for AI data centers because<span class="gmail_default" style=""> regardless of if they get their power from coal, natural gas, hydroelectric, nuclear, solar or wind, they are ALL going to need extensive battery powered back up power supplies, and probably emergency diesel generators too. So they are all competing on a level playing field.</span></b></font><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></b></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style=""><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style=""><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span></b></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></b></div></div>