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The United States is currently locked in a "Compute Race" that we cannot afford to lose. However, the infrastructure required to win—massive, energy-dense data centers—is running headlong into a wall of domestic sentiment. To the average citizen, a data center is a "black box" that consumes local water, strains the power grid, and exhausts massive amounts of waste heat into the environment.
To scale AI at the pace of national security, we must consider a Reciprocal Model. To transform a data center into a self-sustaining resource node, we must move beyond "venting" heat and instead treat thermal exhaust as a primary fuel source.