{"id":8648,"date":"2025-12-12T05:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T05:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/?p=8648"},"modified":"2025-12-12T05:42:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T05:42:43","slug":"work-data-centers-nukes-indians-and-a-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/12\/work-data-centers-nukes-indians-and-a-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Work, Data Centers, Nukes, Indians and a Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Greetings and Salutations!<br>My word&#8230; talk about being beaten on. <br>Take a few days off and it&#8217;s like the world just -stopped- at People&#8217;s Glorious Tractor Factory and waited until I came back, and then they\/it threw me into the deep end, with weights tied around my ankles. And beat on me when I came up for O2.<br><br>No matter.<br>I persevered. Prospered even<br>Made some <strong>good<\/strong> networking connections this week, and solidified some business ties that will help both myself and Ye Olde Factory in the long run, but mostly it&#8217;ll help <strong>me<\/strong> &#8216;cos at this point, that&#8217;s the only mo&#8217;fo I&#8217;m looking out for.<br><br>Numero Uno.<br>Moi<br><br>So I got that going for me. (at least for now) So because of this. I&#8217;ve been so busy I actually haven&#8217;t really been keeping up on current events. OrangeManBad and VodkaManBad are still doing &#8216;the usual bullshit&#8217; over the Krain, and it&#8217;s becoming moar and moar obvious that the Universal Financial House of Cards is teetering <strong><em>dangerously<\/em><\/strong> right now if the parabolic climb of Silver is any indicator.<br><br>Add on that &#8216;King Copper&#8217; as it&#8217;s known has <strong>also<\/strong> been shooting up quite radically, this after a significant dive during the Covid Dumbasshattery. As the trend for the past 5 years shows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Key Price Points &amp; Trends (Approximate)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>2020:<\/strong>&nbsp;Around $2.80 &#8211; $3.00\/lb (Low).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>2021:<\/strong>&nbsp;Averaged over $9,300\/metric ton (Peak).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>2022:<\/strong>&nbsp;Around $8,800\/metric ton.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>2023:<\/strong>&nbsp;Around $8,490\/metric ton, low point around $7,900\/ton.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>2024:<\/strong>&nbsp;Rose significantly, averaging over $9,100\/ton, reaching near $10,100\/ton by May.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>2025 (Early-Mid):<\/strong>&nbsp;Continued strength, hitting highs near $10,700\/ton (October 2025), generally above $9,000\/ton.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">BOTH Copper and Silver are <strong>critical elements<\/strong> for the bullshit A.I. &#8216;revolution&#8217; and all the data centers that they&#8217;re &#8216;supposedly&#8217; going to build&#8230;  the reason I say supposedly is while they&#8217;re talking a great game of building up these Skynet-Level A.I. data centers, I&#8217;ve noticed a distinct <strong>lack of discussion <\/strong>on just just how in the Hell are they going to power them!?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/skynet-1024x576.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/skynet-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/skynet-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/skynet-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/skynet.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I mean I don&#8217;t know about y&#8217;all, but I haven&#8217;t heard anything about any new power plants or any new energy producing breakthroughs or anything&#8230;  I mean the newest Nuke Plant we built, the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in Georgia just went online with one reactor in July of 2023, (called Unit #3) and then the latest was at the same plant going online in April of 2024&#8230;.  <br><br>Per the Goolag:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>As of mid-2024\/early 2025, the United States has&nbsp;<strong>54&nbsp;commercially operating nuclear power plants<\/strong>&nbsp;with a total of&nbsp;<strong>94 active nuclear reactors<\/strong>&nbsp;across 28 states, providing significant baseload, low-carbon electricity, with Illinois having the most reactors and Georgia&#8217;s Vogtle plant housing the newest additions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"543\" src=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nooks.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nooks.webp 1024w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nooks-300x159.webp 300w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nooks-768x407.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Now, considering just <strong>how much power<\/strong> these data centers are supposed to use, methinks we&#8217;re being sold a bill of goods, i.e. a pile o&#8217;shytte in that there&#8217;s no way we currently have the power generational capacity to run as many of these data centers that they <strong>claim<\/strong> to be planning on building.<br><br>Personally, I think it&#8217;s all vaporware.<br><br>Hype<br>Bullshit<br>Ain&#8217;t gonna happen.<br><br>Hell&#8230; Never mind the cooling factor&#8230; My gaming PC is liquid cooled in a closed circuit cooling loop so to speak&#8230; the PC generates quite a bit of heat&#8230; <br><br>Multiply MY lil PC by say 100,000 and OMFG&#8230;. talk about needing coolant!?! I mean the amount of H2O it&#8217;ll supposedly take to cool one of these A.I. Supercenters? Utter Insanity IMO. I mean take a look at the map above again&#8230; there&#8217;s like what? <br><br>Like <em>only <\/em>two or three operational nuke plants out west towards Silicon Valley? And the whole &#8220;green energy thing&#8221; we figured out and <strong><em>already know<\/em><\/strong> that&#8217;s one giant money laundering scam that &#8216;shit the bed&#8217; so to speak&#8230; And when you figure in the cooling needs, you&#8217;re talking about <strong>billions<\/strong> of gallons of water&#8230;possibly <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">TRILLIONS<\/span><\/strong> with how the talking right now&#8230;<br><br>Which is a BIG reason I&#8217;m throwing the bullshit flag.<br><br>Case in point: For 2023, the <strong>current<\/strong> data centers we have in the United States <em>right now<\/em> consumed an <strong><em>estimated <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">211 BILLION GALLONS OF WATER<\/span><\/em><\/strong> JUST for cooling in 2023 ALONE&#8230;. And in that time? Back in 2023? There were <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ONLY <\/span><\/strong>approximately <strong>684 large data centers in the U.S. nationwide<\/strong> according to ABI Research. And the locations of these DCs (shortened for brevity) are primarily located in Northern Virginia (Duh! that of course, would be the CIA\/NSA gathering ALL the info&#8230; like all of &#8220;the everything(s)&#8221;, all the time, constantly nonstop, <strong>forever<\/strong>) with California and Texas being the next two largest conglomeration\/centralized areas of DCs.<br><br>Now, as to those two other states?<br><br>They&#8217;re not exactly known for having VAST quantities of water&#8230; and as already stated, they need a <strong>lot<\/strong> of <strong>good<\/strong> power sources&#8230;. and since the cooling of ALL of them expensive chips, doohickies, whatzits and thingamabobs is an <strong>absolute necessity<\/strong>&#8230;. that means GIGANTIC AMOUNTS OF WATER NEEDED&#8230;.   so we&#8217;re talking (potentially) about complete and utter aquifer(s) collapsing allllll over the place&#8230; I once read somewhere that if the water flowing from Oregon to California were to suddenly and dramatically <em><strong>stop<\/strong><\/em>, LA and a whoooooole lotta other places would revert to straight up desert again.<br><br>In fact there&#8217;s quite a few post-apocalyptic dystopian fiction novels that discuss that very thing happening&#8230; that the water runs out, and Cali goes all &#8220;Desert Mad Max&#8221;. <br><br>MY personal opinion?<br><br>A.I. and ALL these data centers are just <em>another <\/em>grift in keeping with the pattern of a long line of Psyops and grifting cash from the Ignorant Rich, and labor out of the Slave Class (i.e. folks like us.) <br><br>I mean they&#8217;re using the &#8216;threat&#8217; of A.I. to keep us all hard at work, willing to work harderer and for less money, to show we still have <strong>value<\/strong> because they&#8217;ve got the majority of Joe and Bobbie Sixpack, &#8220;The Northern Boobus Americanus&#8221; scared to death that their jobs are going to be eliminated by this mysterious Computer Based Overlord and Sooooooopergenius A.I. whatchamacallit&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"South Park - They Took Our Jobs\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N-kgb1QtSnU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I mean think about it<br><br>It&#8217;s kind of brilliant in a sick, twisted way.<br><br>Shit like this is right up their alley so to speak&#8230;<br><br>Get <strong>everyone<\/strong> to &#8216;invest&#8217; and go BIG into A.I.<br>Then they use the <strong><em>threat<\/em><\/strong> of A.I. to keep the Wage Slaves in line, &#8216;cos &#8220;You can be replaced by a faster, smarter computer program that we don&#8217;t have to pay!!!&#8221; <br><br>Mind you, they <strong>had <\/strong>to do this mind you because the big &#8216;Hindu Threat&#8217; of them replacing us with the Ganesh Worshippers quite literally and figuratively shit itself to death and brutally backfired&#8230; it&#8217;s because that we, as a whole, found out (<em>very quickly<\/em> mind you) that the only group stupider than Somalis are the fucking subcontinental Indians. <br><br>I mean I&#8217;ve <strong>NEVER<\/strong> seen a group that went from being touted as our &#8220;replacements&#8221; to the ONE GROUP that&#8217;s actually become hated more that the blaqs and the Jews, and that&#8217;s the fucking streetshitting Hindu-Dindus.<br><br>In fact the HinduHate that&#8217;s out there? I think they (the Indians as a whole) set a new speed record for creating absolute racial animosity towards themselves&#8230; <br><br>I don&#8217;t know <strong>anyone<\/strong> who actually <strong>likes<\/strong> them&#8230; in fact I think it&#8217;s one thing that the Jews, Blaqs, Whyttes, Mex-Hee-Cans, and Squatemalans can <strong>ALL<\/strong> agree on and that&#8217;s we cannot <strong>stand<\/strong> those fucking people&#8230; I mean when you get a Jew and a Nazi in the same room, with them looking at (and smelling) a Hindu and then they look at each other and say &#8220;What the fuck man!?! Those are <strong>nasty motherfuckers!<\/strong>&#8221; you <strong>know<\/strong> you got a problem&#8230; and the Indian?  He&#8217;s fucking OBLIVIOUS to it &#8216;cos as far as he&#8217;s concerned?  He&#8217;s the smartest motherfucker in the room&#8230;.<br><br>And that right there? That&#8217;s a BIG reason for the how\/why of why almost EVERYONE cannot stand them&#8230; it&#8217;s their fucking arrogance. Fuckers are just WAAAAY too arrogant for their own good&#8230; and LOUD about it too&#8230;<br><br>If they had kept their fucking gobs shut, we <em>might<\/em> have overlooked their shytte, but because of the unwarranted and undeserving sense of superiority which they positively LOVE to rub in our faces (along with their feces), they fucked it up, the mask fell off, and now?<br>EVERYONE fucking hates them.<br>Fuck those guys.<br>Seriously.<br><br>So food for thought right?<br>As far as other more pleasant things&#8230;.<br><br>The raffle I&#8217;ll be announcing OFFICIALLY tommorrow.<br>With Pics of the Prize.<br>And where to send entries.<br><br>Big Papi needs some $$$ to get the Grans some Christmas Gifties&#8230; Oh&#8230;. and speaking of which, DC popped out Gran #3 (a boy) via C-Section on Monday. 8 pounds, 6 oz.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bebe2-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8651\" style=\"width:576px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bebe2-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bebe2-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bebe2-768x1364.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bebe2-865x1536.jpg 865w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bebe2.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 85vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bebe-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bebe-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bebe-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bebe-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bebe.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Dammit.<br>FML.<br>I&#8217;m staying stronk, but maaaan&#8230; the one thing that stupid broad (DC that is) does do right is she makes great kids&#8230;  which is a fucking shame&#8230; and in this case, I&#8217;m doing my damnedest to stay the fuck away &#8216;cos babies are my Kryptonite.  After all, it&#8217;s not HIS fault his momma is a worthless retard&#8230;<br>Like I said<br>FML<br>So More Later<br>Big Country<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"564\" src=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1755200927169642.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1755200927169642.png 1024w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1755200927169642-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1755200927169642-768x423.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings and Salutations!My word&#8230; talk about being beaten on. Take a few days off and it&#8217;s like the world just -stopped- at People&#8217;s Glorious Tractor Factory and waited until I came back, and then they\/it threw me into the deep end, with weights tied around my ankles. And beat on me when I came up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/12\/work-data-centers-nukes-indians-and-a-baby\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Work, Data Centers, Nukes, Indians and a Baby&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8648"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8668,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8648\/revisions\/8668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}