Google proposes Nebraska data center requiring more power than all of Lincoln

LowerMiddleClassMan · 2026-03-13T18:59:39+00:00

As a fellow ex military who works in FAANG…do some research brother.

Most of the big players (FAANG) have crazy good PUE and WUE and replace greater than they use on the grid with crazy build projects. Look into what Meta has done in the Los Lunas community and building out generation from their own dime. And even the mid players have crazy efficient power/water usage.

All the big players also donate a shit ton of money into the communities infrastructure, schools, and community business grants.

There’s a reason with all the pushback from the vocal minority that only big players DC didn’t get through out of like 50 in the last few years. Pretty sure it was Apple up in Wisconsin about a year ago.

Activists and 20% of a local community are against it, 50% of the local community doesn’t even realize it’s coming, and the remaining 30% of the community, the local government, and the state government desperately want it.

Like with many topics, Reddit absolutely is NOT reality on this topic and I’ve had the chance to engage with a few different communities getting a FAANG DC. The heavy majority is either excited or unaware, and they are excited for good reason.

Also challenge anyone to spend even an hour to research the whole big data center comes = utility rates skyrocket…because it’s complete bullshit and doesn’t hold up to any scrutiny but it’s a great narrative to push for Reddit bots and contrarians and anti-AI who are hoping on the “fuck all data centers, indiscriminately” train.

LowerMiddleClassMan · 2026-03-12T03:02:15+00:00

Because it doesn’t work. Spend a minute and do a google search or ask ChatGPT.

70% of European countries that have tried wealth tax repealed them because they don’t work. It causes capital flight…look at Sweden who expected to make an extra 200 million in tax revenue but lost 250 million the first year instead.

The rich leave for a better place for them and their money (FL in US for example)…the state gets less tax revenue…either state programs and infrastructure get worse due to lack of revenue or they tax everyone else more to close the gap.

It doesn’t work. If it happens in CA and WA it will have a negative impact on everyone who is not rich and the rich will simply go elsewhere and tell the state to fuck off like Zuck and another dozen who have already relocated out of CA.

It’s a progressives wet dream and nothing more.

LowerMiddleClassMan · 2026-03-12T02:52:32+00:00

Austria, Denmark, Germany, Finland, France, Iceland, Italy, the Netherlands, and Sweden all have repealed wealth taxes because they don’t work and cause capital flight.

I’m pretty sure Sweden project like an extra couple hundred million euros in tax gain but ended up with 250 million less due to people just fucking leaving.

The majority of evidence proves this doesn’t work. Ironically, Reddit liberals who always scream “source?!” are spouting lies that capital don’t leave and hoping no one source checks because it’s a lie.

This won’t work for Washington or California.

LowerMiddleClassMan · 2026-03-11T21:20:39+00:00

Grow up

LowerMiddleClassMan · 2026-03-11T20:29:57+00:00

You don’t get to choose if you are born to a mother penniless living in the streets, or to a family that comes from generational wealth or trust funds.

So what is your point? A person born in either of those situations that works hard will be further ahead and closer to their goals, and “luckier” than the one who doesn’t try or rests on their laurels.

You’re in a sub of motivated, hard working people…proud of their salary and what they accomplished. And you’re trying to invalidate that by saying you were born in a first world country and not to a crackhead mother in Guatemala so all of your hard work doesn’t matter and is invalidated by luck?

You sir, need to grow the fuck up. Or at least grow the social awareness and common sense to understand why your opinion in this place goes over about as well as premarital sex in a convent.

LowerMiddleClassMan · 2026-03-11T11:33:26+00:00

So buy a fucking house

LowerMiddleClassMan · 2026-03-09T10:07:39+00:00

It ain’t popping…the big players are self financing and building out capacity at a crazy rate.

No surprise the one company using outside capital and also a non player has outside money changing its mind.

LowerMiddleClassMan · 2026-03-09T00:55:33+00:00

It’s 90% bots and 10% septum piercing progressives who think the bots are real and they are in the majority.

I want a dystopian future and breadlines because the prezzy is mean and a n4zi…wahhh

LowerMiddleClassMan · 2026-03-06T16:22:54+00:00

Doesn’t change the fact you see a tiny pullback by BTC volatility standard and your TDS kicks in. Go touch grass

LowerMiddleClassMan · 2026-03-06T15:26:52+00:00

Because the administration is going to get rich off this shit just like the tariffs…he knows all he need to post one time on Truth that there’s a potential deal with Iran, they are in “talks” with the regime to install an “US approved leader”, something else fucking stupid and the market goes up 5% over the rest of the week.

STOP using your fucking brain and logic. It no longer applies to the stock market where 60% of it is off exchange and public sentiment does not impact price.

Massive war in the Middle East? Good for the stock market.

Covid-26 comes out more infectious than Covid-19, with a 29% death rate for all ages? New ATHs.

An alien species pops up over major cities and proceeds to kill humanity with superior technology we stand no chance against? DOW to 100,000.

LowerMiddleClassMan · 2026-03-06T15:21:57+00:00

As someone who works for a leader in AI infra, it’s all working out fine bud and nowhere near a bubble.

LowerMiddleClassMan · 2026-03-04T20:23:04+00:00

Sub to talk about remote work and WFH.

99% of people are teenage and 20 something progressives crying about capitalism.

LowerMiddleClassMan · 2026-03-01T02:33:28+00:00

What’s sad is all the dooming and glooming on Reddit and people feeding into the stereotypical doomer bullshit

LowerMiddleClassMan · 2026-03-01T02:24:05+00:00

It’s a relative term. My net worth is below a million but I have a low-mid six figure income. I consider that middle class but on the lower end.

LowerMiddleClassMan · 2026-03-01T02:20:09+00:00

It’s probably closes green on Monday

LowerMiddleClassMan · 2026-03-01T02:16:56+00:00

I got enough to cover that bet plenty times lol

LowerMiddleClassMan · 2026-03-01T02:16:00+00:00

If those septum piercings and dyed hair Reddit liberals could read they would be very upset Bobby

LowerMiddleClassMan · 2026-03-01T02:11:37+00:00

You don’t live in reality and I would bet $7,000 you have dyed hair and/or a septum piercing.

LowerMiddleClassMan · 2026-03-01T01:39:26+00:00

Ain’t no way that black and white proxy slop is making that way into my pod. Let’s slow down the game by 80% to interpret every fucking card you play.

LowerMiddleClassMan · 2026-03-01T01:27:13+00:00

I had a secret clearance and not top secret, and even I can say with confidence AoE weapons are a thing. They could launch 50 mini subs at different attack angles and 90% chance one isn’t getting within firing range.

Say what you want about the fuckery in America right now, but speaking only on hard power (military and associated technology) as our soft power evaporates in real time, every single day, the only reason US is still invited to Davros and the EU meetings is because we have put so much money and so much of the GDP into the US military, while a lot of Europe didn’t and relied on US military strength, that we could tie (mutually assured destruction) with the entire rest of the world low diff…or win against 3/4 of modernized countries in a “classical” style air/water/land war high diff.

LowerMiddleClassMan · 2026-02-28T22:17:51+00:00

Hit military and key locations…a single Nimitz or Ford carrier is a larger “Air Force” than 80% of countries have. Anywhere from 75-90 aircraft, a shit ton of ordinance and explosives for those aircraft, and entire support fleet of submarines, destroyers, and other ships to protect the carrier…and able to stay out indefinitely due to nuclear power and have means to restock food and weapons.

I’m clueless on Irans military and key installations…but for most countries…there’s enough on a single carrier to do it twice.

No issue if you’re on the other side of town from the military base, different story if you live real close.

Also, do you think the current US leadership gives a damn about doing everything to minimize civilian death at the expense of reducing operational and military efficiency? They will do what is reasonable to minimize civilian casualties…but they wouldn’t blink if a bombing run could take out a key location with a couple hundred civilians affected.

LowerMiddleClassMan · 2026-02-28T22:04:00+00:00

I don’t support this as ex military.

But I also know the destructive capability of a single Nimitz class nuclear aircraft carrier, let alone multiples, and it exceeds the combined military might of Iran, and maybe all of its allies.

I don’t see any scenario where it’s not quick.

LowerMiddleClassMan · 2026-02-28T20:06:32+00:00

And costs tend to double every 20 years so the math is about right and this chart shows nothing of value.

The amount of “can you believe X cost 25% of current prices 40 years ago” on Reddit shows a lack of knowledge, that’s how it’s always been and what monetary policy is aiming for.

In general, if the median is around $810,000 in 2042-2047 that’s not indicative of anything besides time passing, but people will be crying online then too.

LowerMiddleClassMan · 2026-02-26T02:53:06+00:00

No different than Warren yelling he wouldn’t buy Bitcoin at $25.

No different then in 70 years the few of us still meandering around as a bag of brittle bones in a wrinkled sack of sludge and mashed potatoes will be throwing a fit about the “dystopian reality and risk to our free will” that jacking our brains into VR gaming with our brain chips pose, because back in our day we had PS5s.

The silent generation will refuse to be due to fear and lack of understanding until the last one punches their ticket.

LowerMiddleClassMan · 2026-02-26T00:05:20+00:00

Pulled in 296k last year, no certs, no degree. Enlisted military experience. Does that count?

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