The state of Ohio has seen some minor...

Editor's note: ...fluctuations and even slight population increases in recent years, however, the long-term projections and a closer look at natural change (births minus deaths) suggest that Ohio's population is on a downward trend, or at least facing significant challenges to population growth. It is expected Ohio will have 675,000 (6 percent of the current population) less residents in the coming years. That means more water for the construction of large data centers in the state. Data centers, the physical infrastructure that powers our digital conquest (cloud computing, streaming, AI, online services), consume massive amounts of water (from the Ohio River and Lake Erie). This is a growing concern, especially as the demand for digital services, and particularly AI, continues to surge. This is also why Ohio is building large solar energy farms: massive power hungry demand for electricity to power up data centers. The money flowing into Ohio to build data centers are in the billions of dollars. The water used in data centers for cooling needs to be very clean and this is why the state of Ohio is replacing 750,000 lead water piping. The temporary increase in Ohio's population is due to the increase in construction workers building these data centers. Zuckerberg's Meta (Facebook was the "Model T" of AI) plans to bring a 1 GW super cluster called "Prometheus" online in 2026. Meta's Prometheus is one of the first tech companies to control an AI data center of this size. Prometheus is located in New Albany, Ohio. What this rapidly building out of AI ultimately means is singularity is coming whether we understand it or not. The implications are massive...

Zuckerberg "Focused" On Building Mega Gigawatt-Size Data Centers
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Grappling With Existential Panic Over AI

By Mark E. Jeftovic | July 21, 2025

This author is an industry leader who is forced to grapple with AI as a matter of business survival, as are millions of businesses around the world. Learn a new word: Tachyosis – A state of recursively compounding acceleration — where systems evolve faster than they can stabilize, perception fragments, and causality begins to blur.

"Civilizations in tachyosis cease to distinguish between signal and noise — they become pure velocity." ⁃ Patrick Wood, Editor.

Some time over the Christmas holidays, I experienced what I called a moment of "existential clarity" about AI and it's ramifications – when I realized that in the not-so-distant future, it was entirely possible that most of easyDNS' customers would be autonomous AI-driven agents rather than people.

Our internal project to completely rebuild our UX (still ongoing) was close to a quarter in, and it occurred to me that we could be building a bridge-to-nowhere. Why are we creating more elegant ways to render forms that input hostnames and their respective rdata when:

• you could probably just tell the backend what you want for your domain functionality to be and it can generate the requisite zonefile to facilitate it, and then

• not long after that every API is going to sit behind an MCP server and it’ll all be done agentically via automated endpoints anyway.

What was the point? This question still bothers me, but we continue to toil away at the UX rebuild, because even though this is where everything is headed, there will still be a temporally long-tail of copy-pasting IP addresses into forms (in the meantime I spend my spare time vibe coding alternative ways to convey DNS and metadata to a zonefile rendering engine. I can see why this isn't totally a thing yet, but it will be.)

Recently, I started reading John W. Munsell's "Ingrain AI" – it hits the ground running, with the introduction titled "Every CEO's Nightmare", wherein it lays out the "productivity" induced death-spiral many companies may be blundering into, should they be pursuing AI merely as a cheat-code toward hyper-efficiency.

Munsell poses The Big Question:

For a lot of companies, they're using these tools to cut headcount – a recent post on Reddit from a laid off Rogers employee alleges that company cut 1,000 call center employees, after having them train up AIs on their jobs. Brutal.

In our case, it's a definite "no" on 1, "yes" on 2 for the question posed, but even if that's the case, any companies following the same path as easyDNS may not necessarily reduce headcounts but they will most likely slow down hiring.

I've said it in the past, and I'll reiterate it here: I don't believe for minute that AI is conscious, self aware or sentient and I don't think AGI ever happens – but it is a revolutionary breakthrough in natural language processing. I think it was YCombinator's Andrej Karpathy, in his famous "Software In the Age of AI" keynote who quipped “the most popular programming language of the future will be… English”.

With this, every single person on your team acquires strange new super-powers. In a recent Bombthrower post I called it a "cognitive exo-skeleton" (see: "Is ChatGPT Intentionally Driving You Into Psychosis?") . It's like Iron Man's suit for your brain, except they're available for a few dollars per month, per employee – turning every single person on staff into a productivity super-soldier – what CEO in their right mind would eschew that?

Forced Acceleration

This all comes with an imperative, and we didn't really get a choice whether or not to put our hand up for it. If anybody has followed my other writings on Bitcoin and the decentralized revolution, you'll know that a major theme of my thinking has been that the root cause of mass psychosis and generalized anxiety in the world today – including conspiracy theories and ever increasing polarization – is the accelerating rate of change.

It's "Future Shock" writ large, to use the Alvin and Heidi Toffler phrase from their books in the 70's, 80's. It's actually, "Future Shock squared" – accelerating acceleration, I and created a neologism "tachyosis" (using chatGPT, as it were) to describe the dynamic:

Tachyosis (n.)

A state of recursively compounding acceleration — where systems evolve faster than they can stabilize, perception fragments, and causality begins to blur. Considered the experiential threshold of the kinematic continuum.

"Civilizations in tachyosis cease to distinguish between signal and noise — they become pure velocity."

Some think that it's ironically office jobs, clerks and white collar functions on the chopping block first, with physical work enjoying some wiggle room until the robots come, but even that is moving faster than most realize:

What it means is that, yes, everybody gets a massive brain boost. Having the sum total of all historic and current human knowledge, available at zero marginal cost, changes the game, but it also means that all of that productivity boost has to a happen at a higher level of mental abstraction.

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News update for 9 August 2025 on data center electrical power consumption:

How Much Power Do Data Centers Use?

She is correct in her assessment: "There isn't a damn thing you can do about it." Wait until these data centers are all up and running they will be sucking massive amounts of water and electricity out of local systems. The US already has the highest number of data centers globally, with over 5,400 active facilities as of early 2025. This number of data centers is continuously growing. The US data center construction market is projected to grow substantially. For example, some reports estimate it will reach USD $112.33 billion by 2030, rising at a CAGR of over 15% from USD $48.18 billion in 2024. Other forecasts suggest the market size will reach US$ 133.4 billion in 2032 from US$ 67.0 billion in 2025 all driven by an insatiable demand for AI.