You will never pay utility bills again.

That’s Mark Rukman’s pitch for the town that says yes to the data center. Between 1870 and 1970 humanity built the entire nervous system of the modern world — electricity, plumbing, telephones, planes, everything. Then it stopped. Mark argues the next special century has just started, and if the towns getting the compute don’t get a share of the bounty, the data centers will get sabotaged.