Keep pulling the thread on Chris Crosby.
Chris Crosby, CEO of Compass Datacenters, now spends 80% of his time on policy and politics, which he considers the primary tail risk for the data center industry.
According to Chris Crosby's knowledge from conversations with NVIDIA executives, no NVIDIA GPU has ever been retired from service due to overwhelming demand.
Compass Datacenters offered the Public Utility Commission of Texas $100 million to directly fund transmission upgrades for its projects, but the offer was declined because state law requires these costs to be socialized among all consumers.
During Texas's Storm Uri, data centers were unable to use their backup generators to alleviate grid stress due to laws imposing criminal penalties for running them in a planned outage.
Elon Musk is reportedly renting a 1-gigawatt data center to Anthropic for $1.2 billion per month.
Compass Datacenters uses a 40-year underwriting model for its projects, reflecting a long-term, "build-to-last" investment strategy.
Compass Datacenters designs its facilities to accommodate a range of power densities, from a 10-kilowatt air-cooled rack to a 6-megawatt row of water-cooled servers, within the same footprint.
The city of Denver recently implemented a moratorium on new data center development.
Electricians working on data center construction in Colorado can earn between $100,000 and $150,000 per year, compared to $68,000 to $72,000 for other commercial construction projects.
Compass Datacenters has never used water for cooling in any of its data center facilities.
Compass Datacenters' projects have created over 20,000 permanent jobs, excluding temporary construction jobs.
A study conducted by E3 for the Data Center Coalition found no evidence that data center development leads to higher residential electricity costs.