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I do the homework out loud.
Home tech gets sold on the picture on the front of the box. I go find the warranty, the code, and the spec sheet, and tell you what's actually in there — including the parts I couldn't pin down.
Why Are There Jet Engines at a Data Center?
I saw a photo of what looked like jet engines sitting in the dirt outside an AI data center and figured it was fake. It's real. They're airliner engines, burning the same gas that heats your house — because the grid line is years long and nobody wanted to wait.
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Why Are There Jet Engines at a Data Center?
I saw a photo of what looked like jet engines sitting in the dirt outside an AI data center and figured it was fake. It's real. They're airliner engines, burning the same gas that heats your house — because the grid line is years long and nobody wanted to wait.
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Does a Whole-Home Surge Protector Actually Stop Lightning?
Half the internet says the little box in your panel would've saved the house. The other half says it has almost nothing to do with lightning. They're arguing about two different events.
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NVIDIA Wants to Bolt a Data Center to Your House
A $250,000 box on the side of your house, and a $22,000-a-year payday nobody can source. What's real about the SPAN XFRA pilot, and what isn't.
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They Built a Data Center Down the Road and My Washer Died. Can I Make Them Pay?
Brown water showed up right after the data center broke ground, and now the washer's dead. Can you actually make them pay for silt-wrecked appliances?
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The Data Center Blacked Out Its Water and Power Numbers. Is It Worth Hiring a Lawyer to Pry Them Loose?
A data center redacted its water and power use. A lawsuit can pry the numbers out — but here's when that actually beats just showing up to comment.
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A data center's coming and I'm on a well — do I drill deeper or add storage?
Neighbors warn your well will dry up when the data center opens. The cheap first move before you drill deeper or add storage.
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A Data Center Used My Neighbors' Names to Fake Support. Here's How You Fight It at the Vote.
A data center put neighbors' names on support letters they never signed. How people caught it — and how to get real opposition on the record.
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The Well Test You Have to Run Before They Break Ground
A data center is breaking ground near your well. The test that decides whether you can ever prove damage has to happen before they dig.
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Does Solar Plus a Battery Actually Protect You From Data-Center Rate Hikes?
Solar and a battery hedge part of a data-center rate hike, not all of it. Whether panels alone are enough comes down to one line on your rate plan.
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Who's talking
I'm Robert, and I'm not an insider.
I've got enough power-side experience to be dangerous, and I live in Central Florida where the storms roll in around four o'clock all summer and everybody kind of holds their breath. I'm not an electrician and I'm not pretending to be. I read the documents, I say which parts I couldn't verify, and I'd rather you check me than trust me.
If you install this stuff, inspect it, work the utility side, or handle the claims after a storm — the comments are where you set me straight.