This week on Seeing Red, Garrett Fulce talks with Doug Kelly, CEO of the American Edge Project, about what data centers actually are, why they matter in the U.S.-China AI race, what communities get out of them and why the panic over power and water may be aimed at the wrong target.
Doug makes the case that data centers are not the villain — they are infrastructure. AI exposed the weakness in America’s grid. Now the question is whether Texas builds for the next boom or lets somebody else do it.
Later in the episode, Garrett breaks down the State Board of Education’s debate over Bible references in Texas curriculum and reflects on the one-year anniversary of the Camp Mystic floods — what Texas learned, what it still has not fixed and why disaster preparedness cannot be a press-release exercise.
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Guest: Doug Kelly, CEO of the American Edge Project American Edge Project: americanedgeproject.org X: @dougkelly American Edge on X: @americanedge
Chapters: 0:00 Why data centers matter in the U.S.-China AI race 5:47 Jobs, tax revenue and local benefits 13:28 Energy, water and the Texas grid 20:18 AI, automation and the future of work 26:15 SBOE, Bible references and Texas curriculum 34:10 Camp Mystic floods and disaster preparedness
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