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Self-inflicted compute queues

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Welcome to August 25, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

Political resistance to the buildout converts abundance into rationing: not scarcity of silicon but of permission to site it. The queue forms at the zoning board, and the exit is orbit.

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2026-09-17: An energy alliance prioritizes flexible facilities

2026-09-17: The House backs charging data centers for grid upgrades

2026-09-15: Hyperscalers side with consumers against utilities seeking ratepayer support

2026-09-13: The AI boom wrecks a bitcoin mining plan as miners convert to inference

2026-09-13: A chipmaker is called the central bank of AI

2026-09-12: Compute is recast as a fungible, durable, rentable asset

2026-09-07: Datacenter land buys jump 79% with one offer at $4.4 million an acre

2026-09-06: A president says towns rejecting datacenters choose poverty, crime and squalor

2026-09-04: A founder warns the G20 of a shortfall and Stockfish-level coding in 18 months

2026-09-04: A lab will deploy five gigawatts of accelerators next year

2026-08-31: Datacenter noise becomes an industry with its own consultants and rival surveys

2026-08-29: A founder warns 15 gigawatts of 2027 compute cannot be switched on in 2027

2026-08-27: A lab will pay $45 billion for 460 megawatts at a campus a rival abandoned

2026-08-27: A second $100 billion spaceport is announced with ten pads

2026-08-25: Batteries sit in interconnection queues for want of transformers

2026-08-25: Voters reject local datacenters 70 to 30 and prefer a slow buildout

2026-08-03: New homes wait fifteen years for a connection in Europe's largest hub

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Self-inflicted compute queues
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