I did get down when I felt it. I heard stories online of how lightning felt before it hit. I just never thought it would happen to me. We were almost at the top of the cliff. I stopped to take some pictures. So, when we got away. We decreased in elevation quickly, probably 15 feet in under 20 seconds? Then we got to the tree line.
That’s a perfect description actually.
Ironically, I don’t remember it being too loud. I do remember running down a mountain as fast as I could. I think I was just hyper focused on that though.
Correct. Although it feels different than just static. It feels like you are touching pillow filling and static. It’s hard to describe.
If I had to guess, about 50-75 feet from where we were standing. There was some kind of radio tower near us. We didn’t turn around to figure it out. We ran.
I was hiking with my buddy and felt a bit uneasy. Like my skin felt fuzzy, it was hard to explain. I yelled “Run!” To a friend, we ran down the mountain and dodged getting hit by lightning a few seconds later.
If you remove the top few stocks, we have been in a recession IIRC. Just the top few stocks just keep spending money on each other on capex to negate their taxes. Even if the market crashes, big companies now have real estate exposure as a hedge.
Ooh a question I can answer. I will make the answer as neutral as I can just explaining the differences of old Data Centers and new ones.
I worked in several data centers (DC). But all were air cooled. These AI DCs are also called Hyper scales. They need liquid due to the density of heat production. In addition some literally use jet engines to power them instead of grid power. Some new DCs use loopholes like adding wheels to their power production so that way they can skirt around laws saying it’s only temporary power production.
In the past a rack (42u standard) would hold things like hard drives, tape libraries, network stuff, and servers. Now they cram in GPUs by the dozens, run them at max via liquid cooling. Traditional DC cooling used air cooled hot and cold isles, raised floors with air conditioning pump and large scale chiller units.
Hyper scales are whole different animals. They are ment for processing. Depending on their loop system they need water connected right to GPU/CPUs, heat distribution, fresh water. All relatively new due to water’s thermal mass.
Traditional DCs were air cooled. For perspective a fortune 500’s DC may have been 3k sq ft. A Colo (multiple companies sharing one building for infrastructure) may be 15000-50000sq ft. These new data centers are now campuses. Like they are 8 data center buildings on one site because it’s more practical to drive at some point.
TL;DR a Data Center =/= hyperscale data center.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/15/elon-musk-xai-datacenter-memphis
Check any documentation they may have had with you when they let you be remote. I wish you luck.
My largest concern is not being able to prepay for electric usage. It hurts people who don’t have credit cards. Plus it seems like there are like 30 different chargers you need accounts for.
Well, I am glad I wasn’t the only one.
I’m genuinely a little surprised. I’m not that far from Virginia either. I really wonder why I hadn’t heard anything about Juneteenth prior to recently then.
I get it. I thought about it. But I felt clarity was important. And I don’t regret it. They left a very nice comment and I get what they were saying.
Yeah it’s wild it seemed like it came out of nowhere one year, but it was a very big holiday in other parts. Frankly a day off in June is always nice. :)
You are good. I appreciate that. I came from not knowing about it at all. I didn’t know it was such a big thing. This comment made up for it. I don’t watch the news, I don’t even own a TV, saying I live under a rock would be an understatement at times. Can I ask, are you from the Texas area?
I read about it. It seemed interesting. I think we have gotten used to the world of 24 hour news and quick responses that the scale of the USA seems small now, even Texas. I didn’t know it was celebrated on and off. I didn’t know about it until 2022.
Not knowing what something* was in 2022 and thinking it was a typo does not make me a racist. It just makes me not knowledgeable on the subject. I also worked in very small team and we were the only ones in the office due to the pandemic. So, little info was shared. We never heard of it, so we thought it was a typo.
I’m sorry this offended you so much. If you saw a calendar labeled Setember instead of September, would you consider that racist or a typo? These errors were common for people to make. It was also added to our calendar that year for the first time.
I did research afterwards. It seems to be something from Texas IIRC. I’m nowhere near Texas.
I remember when Juneteeth became a thing. I thought it was a typo. So I fixed all the calendar at work to have “June Nineteenth.”
That would probably make sense. I genuinely remember it being loud, but not by hearing it, more of feeling it. You feel it in your lungs. My guess is due to the rapid pressure change. I was a bit too focused on getting off of the cliff/mountain we were at.