Some interesting quotes from Core Scientific $CORZ Co-Founder and CDO Russell Cann at the H.C. Wainwright conference earlier this week.. - On liquid vs air cooling: "Direct liquid cool and air cool were just not the same thing. The legacy data centers we had that were air cooled, it just made no sense to try to convert those. We had to build everything from the ground up." - On trends in $/MW CapEx costs: "The first deals.. late in 2023, we had good hard estimates of around $4.5MM a megawatt.. By the time we got around to inking the deal in June, that same facility was just under $8MM a megawatt. Now, the things that we actually turned on this year, the other sites, they were floating around $10MM to $10.5MM a megawatt.. The stuff that we have turning on in 2027.. is between $12MM and $13MM a megwatt. Most of that increase is labor, and then.. the gear, switchgear, the transformers." - On labor constraints: "If you have a kid graduating high school right now, they need to go become an electrician. Journeyman electricians right now on one of our sites make about $250k - $350k a year, and master electricians are bringing in $750k a year." - On AMD's expansion option: "We agreed to give them the next 2,000MW at three of our sites in Hunt County, TX, Pecos, TX, and Muskogee, OK.. I would say unless the market just really goes south, AMD will take all 2,000 of those MWs. They have already announced who their customers are, so you guys can figure it out."

Getting goosebumps by these quotes from $NVDA CFO Colette Kress: "We recognize the scale of this support ($500B third-party capital), and we know some will call this circular financing. We see it differently." "We're going through...the creation of one of the most important technologies in human history." "These are once in a generation, companies, the technology leadership is proven and their customer traction and usage are skyrocketing." "We expect them to become the largest technology companies in history." Bro....

11 Great Christopher Hitchens Quotes. “I’ll try anything once except incest and folk dancing.” “To whom do you award the right to decide which speech is harmful or who is the harmful speaker? To whom would you delegate the task of deciding for you what you could read?” “I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.” “Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realise that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.” “If someone tells me that I’ve hurt their feelings, I say, ‘I’m still waiting to hear what your point is.’ I’m very depressed how in this country you can be told, ‘That’s offensive!’ as if those two words constitute an argument.” “Those who are determined to be ‘offended’ will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.” “I have one consistency, which is being against the totalitarian – on the left and on the right. The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy; the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.” “When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set. It works every time.” “The four most overrated things in the world are champagne, lobster, anal sex and picnics.” “Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.” — h/t @CosmicSkeptic and @SteveStuWill