Laying the beam

Data centers: posts and spending

Beam thickness shows monthly construction spending. Upper marks count Trump-feed mentions; lower grains count replies to separate Iran-related posts. Windows differ; no causal link is implied.

US Census: monthly private data-center construction, current dollars, through Sep 2026. Feed: CNN, CC0 archive terms, underlying rights separate, through Nov 4. Replies: Akkurt, CC BY-NC 4.0, through Apr 20. Separate samples, not energy use or announced investment. Code: Luke Steuber, MIT.

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