As I'm traversing Europe at the moment once more, I get to see a lot of local takes on this. It's a hot topic in some places there too, even though the scale is smaller. What I find interesting is that there is a lot of weighing going on in the form of energy expenditure versus national (security) interest.

The only problem that I have in all this, is that I still don't see the actual security application to AI or data centers specifically. The real "security" (and I think this is economic security only) can maybe be found in having energy abundance? Everything else ought to be secondary to that?