What costs $1 billion, consumes 2,000 acres of farmland, and forces an entire affordable housing community to close for good in just 90 days?

Photo above – guess which version of Disney’s Snow White cost 10X as much to make (2026 dollars) as the other, was panned for its CGI effects, and lost $70 million globally at the box office?

Imagine this . . . you’re kicking back in your “manufactured home” (trailer) in Marysville Kentucky. In addition to your social security check, the postman delivers an eviction notice. You have 90 days to get the hell out and find someplace else. Thanks again to the miracle of AI. The owner is rumored to be Meta, although there is a long list of opaque and confusing contractors and builders involved. The new data center will employ a whopping 50 full time people after it’s completed. It will also get 15 years of tax-free occupancy from local authorities. The residents of the trailer park will get 90 days to find new homes.

I would probably be less harsh on Artificial Intelligence if it actually did something useful. And didn't cost an arm and a leg for it's slop. If you need a reminder that AI is high cost/low value, look no further than this week’s cancellation of OpenAI’s massive deal with Disney. They just inked the contract 3 months ago. Then the bills for compute time and electricity turned out to be $1 million per day. Somebody brainiac with a spreadsheet became skeptical those costs would be covered by more classic cartoon reboots. Even if they star Gal Gadot (wonder woman) as the Evil Queen in Snow White.

I don’t know if the mystery data center swallowing Marysville is going to fix any of the things I’ve been asking AI for. It seems unlikely that the newest box is finally going to deliver a self-driving car for my mom. I expect that closed captioning of live TV events will probably still be hilariously bad. Maybe the new AI data center will accelerate the moment when quantum computing steals all our bank balances?

In any case, congrats to the 50 lucky souls getting jobs at the new center. Good luck to everyone else, both in Marysville Kentucky and at Disney, which will now have to keep searching for ways to inundate us with remakes of the hundreds of classic films controlled by their library.

I’m just sayin’ . . .

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