Steve Hou(@stevehou):Inner Mongolia had long stopped being remembered for Genghis Khan as much as open-pit coal mines. If building lots of AI data centers means that the Mongolian grasslands can be spared of stripping for coal it’d indeed be a great thing!

Steve Hou

@stevehou

Head of Research @Silicon_Data. @UMICH/@ETH_en/@UVA alum. Perpetually curious, but also "incredibly unsophisticated" (according to Chamath Palihapitiya)

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Steve Hou@stevehou

2026.09.26 11:05

Inner Mongolia had long stopped being remembered for Genghis Khan as much as open-pit coal mines. If building lots of AI data centers means that the Mongolian grasslands can be spared of stripping for coal it’d indeed be a great thing!