This is not sustainable. I predict instead DCs will build their own cheaper, more reliable power plants, utilities will then purchase access to them on terms favorable to the DC operators. Why? The net present economic value of the marginal MWh is far far higher for AI training and inference than default electricity consumption patterns. This observation seems controversial but it's self evidently true.

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This guy financed a $90K machine he’d never used to start a business he’d never done, in a market he’d never worked in. Now he's on track to do $1M this year with 69% NET profit margins. Here's exactly how you can copy him. It started when he bought 5 acres of land, 4 of which were overgrown. He tried to hire someone to clear it, but the closest provider was over 100 miles away. So he did some basic keyword research - nothing fancy - and learned the service was called “forestry mulching.” What he found shocked him: tons of people in his area were searching for help clearing overgrowth, but there were almost no local providers. He saw the gap and moved fast. He'd never started a home service business before. He financed a skid steer with a mulching head for $90K. No experience. No jobs booked. Just conviction. Then he spliced together demo footage from Bobcat’s YouTube channel and launched his first ad. He targeted rural Ohio zip codes, 35+ homeowners with land, using Tractor Supply and similar interests as filters. His ad cost? Just $23 per lead. His average job size? $3,100. His close rate? 85%. He was booked out within weeks. To build trust and close more deals, he started filming every job. Simple before-and-afters, drone shots of local landmarks, and time lapses of the machine in action. He didn’t care about views, he just wanted prospects to see what the machine could do and know that he was local. Now, 80% of his customers say they watched his YouTube before booking. The channel isn’t just conteny, it’s proof. This isn’t a content business. It’s a swaty, high-ticket local service. But content is his engine of trust. And trust is what converts. Today he runs two machines. Has months of work booked. Pays for his equipment in one job. And he’s already planning to scale to 10+ units. Most people still don’t even know what forestry mulching is. Which is exactly why this works so well. You don’t need a brand or experience, or even that much money. You just need to spot a broken market and fill the gap with something people already want. He’s doing $1M/year clearing land with a machine he didn’t know existed 18 months ago. And he started it all with a $5K down payment and a borrowed YouTube video.

Congrats to the team at @MarathonFusion for identifying a plausible, scalable process for transmuting mercury into gold. This is something that drove Isaac Newton insane.