Aaron Burnett
@aaronburnett · Feb 22, 2026
This trend is precisely why we should expect an increasingly costly scale up for AI compute in terms of both money and time.
We should obviously work on solutions to this problem terrestrially. However it seems unlikely that these solutions will be more than a bandaid and at
Chamath Palihapitiya@chamath· Feb 22, 2026In 2025, 25 data center projects were canceled due to community pushback. That’s up from just 6 in 2024 and 2 in 2023.
The opposition is notably bipartisan, driven overwhelmingly by one thing: rising electricity prices for local residents.
In Q2 2025 alone, 20 projects were
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Space will probably be cheaper than terrestrial in 2028
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