Pete Donovan aspires to build 20,000 distributed 10MW data centers across US high-school-football towns

Pete Donovan aspires to build 20,000 distributed 10MW data centers across US high-school-football towns | I want to build 20,000 data centers across the country at 10 megawatts so that I'm in less than one millisecond from any place in the country, if you will, the high school football cities of the world.

I want to build 20,000 data centers across the country at 10 megawatts so that I'm in less than one millisecond from any place in the country, if you will, the high school football cities of the world.

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  "qty": "20,000 x 10MW = 200 GW",
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  "context": "my answer is that's only 120 10 megawatt data centers and you put them in an area and we tile the areas to be able to do that and Ahmad I think it matches perfectly with your idea of national champions... I want to build 20,000 data centers across the country at 10 megawatts so that I'm in less than one millisecond from any place in the country.",
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