🚨 About That Power Outage in Hunt County… 🚨
So, last week over 4,000 people lost power around 12:02 AM. The cause? Absolutely nothing to see here, folks. No clear explanation. Zero. Nada.And wouldn’t you know it—the outage just happened to be centered around Cash, Texas. You know, the exact area where a 285-megawatt data center is being proposed. But sure. It was probably just squirrels. 🐿️ Oh honey.We need a Nick Shirley investigating things around here. Speaking of which, where is the media?! When was the public meeting about this? Whats going to happen to property values? Is this Data Center going to improve our lives?
Here’s What’s Actually Happening
Core Scientific acquired a 265-acre site in March 2026 to build a massive AI and high-performance computing data center right here in our backyard—rural Hunt County, near Greenville.The Details:
- 70 acres of land (formerly owned by Telios)
- Consulting with Cash SUD for water and Farmers Electric Cooperative (FEC) for power
- ERCOT approved the interconnection back in 2024
- Operations expected by 2027, full buildout by 2029 I am speculating its off 3805.
“Local Approval?” That’s Cute.
Here’s the kicker: Texas counties have virtually no authority to approve or deny these projects.As one county judge put it: “By the time I hear about it, they’ve already bought their land, so it’s not like they’re asking our permission to show up.”They “ask” us as a symbolic gesture. Meanwhile, folks still have “No Data Centers” signs in their yards. This has been in the works for a while, and someone knew before we did. Follow the money—there’s a LOT of development suddenly flowing into this area. High-occupancy housing, apartments, mobile homes… Greenville is buzzing.
The Good, The Bad & The Loud
If you moved out here for peace and quiet? Brace yourself.🔊 Noise: Data centers are LOUD. You can hear them for miles.💧 Water: They consume massive amounts of resources.⚡ Electricity: They get discounted rates. Will you or I? Nope. In fact, expect your bills to go UP.💰 Tax Revenue: Will it benefit us? Keep dreaming.
At this point, I might as well add CORZ to my portfolio and skip buying hearing aids—I won’t be able to afford them anyway.Thoughts? Drop them in the comments below. ⬇️
About the Picture: That is the cover for a book I wrote.
Nothing But Time
Thirty years.That’s what he gave them. Thirty years of missed recitals, cold dinners, and promises whispered into voicemails that were never saved. Thirty years of believing the corner office was the destination—not the cage.They gave him a gold watch. They gave him a cake. They gave him a handshake and a cardboard box.And just like that, the man who had built something… was nothing.
The merger was clean. Surgical. He never saw it coming.Now the house echoes with the ghost of a marriage he neglected. The children who grew up without him have lives of their own—lives he watched from the periphery like a stranger pressing his face to the glass.He traded everything for a seat at a table that was never his.And now? Now he has nothing but time.
Then the letter arrives.Charlie’s gone.His college roommate. The one who laughed too loud, dreamed too big, and once grabbed him by the shoulders and said, “You’re gonna wake up one day and wonder where it all went, man.”Charlie left him the farm.Sixty acres of overgrown fields, a farmhouse with a sagging porch, and a horizon that stretches further than any quarterly report ever could.
He came to bury his past.He didn’t expect it to save his life.
