@charitychicken
🐓 I used to cross Ohio roads for charitable health causes. Disaster/safety support. U.S. NWS Trained Weather Spotter. Same name on 🐘(as part of zeroes dot ca) & old Twitter. #CovidIsntOver #CovidIsAirborne 😷N95+
There are still severe storms occurring tonight. I just woke to see this (⬇️ now outdated) & realized I need to reset my alarm to go off earlier as there’s a chance for storms near me this morning/nearing lunchtime & I need time to get prepared). Keep devices charged & have a weather radio nearby!
⭐️ I created this 🧵 today (largely to attach to a reply to a media group I wanted paying more attention to Wilmington) with lots of video & article resources that could be helpful to any community fighting against data centers/lobbying their community to ban data centers. 🚫 #DataCenters
Screenshot of first four paragraphs of the linked March 6 2026 AP News article, with the following paragraphs (2-4) highlighted: FDA Commissioner Marty Makary announced the news to FDA staff in an email late Friday, saying Prasad would depart at the end of April. Makary said Prasad would return to his academic job at the University of California, San Francisco. In July, Prasad was briefly forced from his job after running afoul of biotech executives, patient groups and conservative allies of President Donald Trump. He was reinstated less than two weeks later with the backing of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Makary. Prasad’s latest ouster follows a string of high-profile controversies involving the FDA’s review of vaccines, gene therapies and biotech drugs in which companies have criticized the agency for reversing itself, in some cases calling for new trials of products previously greenlighted by regulators.
apnews.com/article/vina... Trump admin's embattled FDA vax chief (Vinay Prasad) is leaving for the 2nd time
He’ll “return to his academic job” at UCSF🤢
…ouster follows a string of high-profile controversies involving the FDA’s review of/reversing itself on vaccines, gene therapies, & biotech drugs
"Babies with COVID-19 develop more serious disease than those with RSV, US data reveal."
• Hospitalised children under 2 with COVID-19 had higher severe illness risk than RSV
• Ventilators: 39% of COVID ICU babies vs 16% with RSV
• Deaths: 2.9% COVID vs 0.4% RSV among hospitalised infants
Adding this post ⬇️ to this AI dangers 🧵
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A tornado was confirmed by the National Weather Service in south Michigan (Union City)
Source: www.facebook.com/share/v/188U...
Follow live coverage today and tonight here (Tornado just touched down near/north of Bristow in Oklahoma) www.youtube.com/live/5bevSvE...
#Tulsa people: This tornadic supercell is headed right for you and a new tornado warning was just issued including the SW portion of the city. You need to be watching this storm VERY closely #okwx
5:31pm: A confirmed tornado continues north of Bristow and west of Kellyville tracking northeast! This has been a large tornado at times!
If you live in western Tulsa County, be prepared to take tornado precautions imminently! #okwx
DEVELOPING: Unconfirmed reports of multiple fatalities after tornado causes destruction in Union City, Michigan.
More details will be provided as they become available.
@police_frequency
Update: I've seen an image from Union City, Michigan from a later part of this tornado family that is... I've heard rumors of fatalities there and the damage looks like the violent tornadoes that ravage the Plains.
Some brave/insane soul took video of the tornado in Three Rivers, Michigan.
youtu.be/wnQaK_yrxZM?...
An educational infographic titled TORNADO TERMINOLOGY featuring a stylized tornado icon. Tornado Watch: Weather conditions could lead to the formation of severe storms and tornadoes. BE PREPARED: Know your safe location. Be ready to act quickly. Tornado Warning: A tornado has been spotted or indicated by radar. TAKE ACTION: There is imminent danger. Seek refuge immediately. Tornado Emergency: A rare situation with a severe threat to life and catastrophic damage. TAKE ACTION.
Severe storm season is here. Do you KNOW the difference between a Tornado Watch, a Tornado Warning and a Tornado Emergency? www.weather.gov/safety/torna...
Follow live coverage today and tonight here (Tornado just touched down near/north of Bristow in Oklahoma) www.youtube.com/live/5bevSvE...
Today’s tornado damage in Michigan (level 1 Marginal) is a reminder you don’t have to be in the highest risk level area to get a🌪️. Other states have higher level 2 Slight & 3 Enhanced risk.
Damage bsky.app/profile/wilx...
News www.woodtv.com/weather/weat...
Outlook www.spc.noaa.gov/products/out...
This hen agrees.
My 🧵 from today ⬇️ about my concerns regarding 2 proposed data centers next to an Ohio National Weather Service office serving 5M in Ohio, Indiana, & Kentucky bsky.app/profile/char...
My 🧵 from a couple of months ago on a number of different AI dangers bsky.app/profile/char...
An extensive 🧵 with video & article resources on data centers plus links to the website & Facebook group for the local community members fighting the proposed 2 data centers in Wilmington, Ohio near the NWS office & info on a petition that Wilmington residents can sign. ⬇️
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59/ For my anti-AI 🧵 with more educational resources (and a few repeats of videos from this thread), please expand the post below.
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58/ (Long & highly detailed with building diagrams) Data Centers’ Water Usage—PennFuture Media youtu.be/XPb6PYPoaI8?...
57/ And here are some last stories with additional concerns related to data centers…
Data centers, water & secrets: Companies using NDAs to hide water usage in Georgia—WSB-TV youtu.be/MsM9sCp8z0A?...
56/ Behind a free subscription wall: “Amid Rising Local Pushback, U.S. Data Center Cancellations Surged in 2025: A Heatmap Pro review of public records shows that 25 data centers were scrubbed last year after local pushback—4 times as many as 2024.” Jan 12 2026–HEATMAP heatmap.news/politics/dat...
• Data centers completed in Silicon Valley sit empty for years — unable to power up because the local utility lacks capacity to supply them with electricity. * AI computing will more than double electricity demand by 2035, but aging infrastructure and permitting delays are preventing data centers from going online nationwide. * Santa Clara’s utility won’t complete upgrades until 2028, forcing developers to shift billion-dollar projects to Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico for more available power. Two of the world’s biggest data center developers have projects in Nvidia Corp.’s hometown that may sit empty for years because the local utility isn’t ready to supply electricity. In Santa Clara, Calif., where the world’s biggest supplier of artificial-intelligence chips is based, Digital Realty Trust Inc. applied in 2019 to build a data center. Roughly six years later, the development remains an empty shell awaiting full energization. Stack Infrastructure, which was acquired earlier this year by Blue Owl Capital Inc., has a nearby 48-megawatt project that’s also vacant, while the city-owned utility, Silicon Valley Power, struggles to upgrade its capacity. The fate of the two facilities highlights a major challenge for the U.S. tech sector and indeed the wider economy. While demand for data centers has never been greater, driven by the boom in cloud computing and AI, access to electricity is emerging as the biggest constraint. That’s largely because of aging power infrastructure, a slow build-out of new transmission lines and a variety of regulatory and permitting hurdles.
And the pressure on power systems is only going to increase. Electricity requirements from AI computing will likely more than double in the U.S. alone by 2035, based on BloombergNEF projections. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and OpenAI’s Sam Altman are among corporate leaders who have predicted trillions of dollars will pour into building AI infrastructure. “The demand has never been higher, and it’s really a power-supply problem that we have,” Bill Dougherty, executive vice president for data center solutions at real estate brokerage CBRE Group Inc., said in an interview. The Santa Clara projects are relatively small compared with the massive complexes for large-language model AI developers, which are now being built in Texas, Pennsylvania, Louisiana and New Mexico, where the cost of electricity is lower but the power sources are often still works in progress. The smaller centers serve local cloud clients who pay a higher price for real estate and power to reduce latency caused by long-distance transmissions — think high-frequency traders or autonomous-vehicle operators who need information in microseconds.
“There are portions of data-center demand that need to be as close as possible to population centers,” Dougherty said. “That is the demand that needs to be in California. They can’t bring it online because there’s constraints on power.” Santa Clara has 57 active or under-construction data centers, according to a May city council presentation. Silicon Valley Power has agreements with Stack and Digital Realty that outline the terms and conditions for providing service, and it’s constantly evaluating requests for additional power, said utility spokesperson Janine de la Vega in an email. “SVP is undertaking a $450 million system upgrade to meet the needs of these and other customers, and the project is currently on schedule to be completed in 2028,” she wrote. There are other places, of course, facing similar delays due to utility-capacity limits. As the surge in demand outpaces the grid’s available power and transmission infrastructure, utilities across the U.S. have struggled to keep up. Last year, Dominion Energy Inc. said it expected the time it takes to connect large data centers to the grid to increase by one to three years, with some taking as long as seven years. Dominion serves northern Virginia’s so-called Data Center Alley, the world’s largest concentration of computing facilities. In Oregon, Amazon alleges it’s been denied sufficient power for four data centers by a Berkshire Hathaway-owned utility, according to a complaint. A three-year wait for energy is “generally consistent” with the lead time to secure electricity in most of the U.S., but waiting periods are longer in high-demand areas like Silicon Valley and Northern Virginia, said Jordan Sadler, a spokesman for Digital Realty, which owns more than 300 data centers globally. “In Santa Clara, if you find a site today and you’re searching for new power, you’d be many years out,” Sadler said in an interview. “Sometimes we’re a little early. But we’re typically not late. You don’t want to be late.”
Digital Realty’s Santa Clara project is currently a vacant 430,000-square-foot, four-floor building. The company’s fully outfitted U.S. centers average about $13.3 million per megawatt, Sadler said, although prices are higher in Silicon Valley. Digital Realty spends about 20% to 25% of the final construction cost for a shell before a building is prepared for occupancy. The company is working with Silicon Valley Power to get electricity ahead of 2028. “Digital Realty continues to collaborate with SVP to obtain the remaining power needed to meet the building’s total critical IT load of 48 megawatts by the end of this year,” Crystal Delany, the company’s vice president of data-center portfolio management, said in an email. Because of high demand, developers are often able to lease projects years before completion, with 74.3% of the current U.S. construction pipeline already committed to tenants, CBRE reported. Digital Realty has leased about 61% of the $9.7 billion of data centers in its pipeline. The company declined to disclose the leasing status of its Santa Clara project. Stack Infrastructure’s plant, a 551,000-square-foot building with four floors of now-empty data halls, originally sought city planning approval in 2021. “Power will be delivered via a dedicated on-site substation, with 12 megawatts of critical capacity available for immediate lease” and capacity to expand to 48 megawatts, according to a brochure for the property. An agreement with Silicon Valley Power “reflects current power and new power coming online through 2027,” according to an emailed Stack statement. Stack declined to discuss the center’s leasing status. Blue Owl Capital announced more than $50 billion of investment in data centers in September and October, including $30 billion for a Meta Platforms center in Louisiana, and more than $20 billion with Oracle Corp. in New Mexico. The investment firm has 1,000 people at Stack to design, build and operate data centers…
55/ Images from LATimes story linked in prior post.
This is the actual article from the prior video:
“Silicon Valley data centers totalling nearly 100MW could 'sit empty for years' due to lack of power…” Nov 10, 2025–Tom’s Hardware www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
54/ Another data center story…
Finished AI Data Centers Have No Electricity — AI Fraud Can’t Fake Reality—Eli the Computer Guy youtu.be/mnAP23UI_lk?...
Cites article like this “Data centers in Silicon Valley stand empty, awaiting power” Nov 10 2025–Los Angeles Times www.latimes.com/business/sto...
53/ Cancelled datacenters—UFD Tech youtu.be/eVJY5tMPxs4?...
(Google and Meta are taking over those canceled leases) Microsoft’s Data Center “Oops!”—Real Estate Brief youtu.be/kvc0Dqf6ruM?...
52/ (OH-Toledo) Waterville officials debate ban on data centers—WTOL11 youtu.be/7YcocWWdOR4?...
51/ (OH-Cleveland) Norton data center plans shut down—WKYC Channel 3 youtu.be/ktVUZ_9I7zg?...
50/ (NJ) Big Tech FREAKS After Activists KILL Data Center—Breaking Points youtu.be/2ER8N9wbMBo?...
49/ Amazon’s $3.6 Billion Data Center KILLED By Tucson Residents—More Perfect Union
youtube.com/shorts/8N1ag...
(AZ) NEW INFO: Tucson kills Project Blue data center—KGUN9 (link may not work but search YouTube for that title and you can find & play it)
youtu.be/Xm6q-vsSEzk?...
48/ (WI-Village of Greenleaf & town of Wrightstown vs. Cloverleaf Infrastructure) Data center plans scrapped—WLUK-TV FOX 11 youtu.be/ve0XbTDqnC4?...
47/ (WI-Village of Caledonia) “Microsoft pulls plug on plans for 244-acre Wisconsin data center after community pushback”—TMJ4 News youtu.be/ZC5m8DaQsMw?...
