Up the road from me (Licking County, Ohio), two new dedicated gas-turbine generating plants are being built to serve new data centers. The (24-inch, 12-mile) g

Up the road from me (Licking County, Ohio), two new dedicated gas-turbine generating plants are being built to serve new data centers. The (24-inch, 12-mile) gas pipeline to serve them was built over the coldest part of winter -- the contractor were obviously scrambling to get it done and invoice it before the bubble pops. They had a huge number of crews working on it simultaneously, and nearly around the clock, to get it done faster. The wait for gas turbines is still, as far as I am aware, five years. The data centers and power plants are one road over from the Intel fab. None of this stuff will ever open. It will all be white elephants.