“As I’ll discuss below, I can find no evidence of anything more than a few hundred megawatts of Microsoft’s data center capacity coming online.”
Our reading:
Zitron says he can find no evidence of more than a few hundred megawatts of Microsoft's data center capacity coming online.
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Why
The sentence reports what Zitron could find. Scoring it against Microsoft's actual capacity would replace his qualified statement with a stronger claim. The available records do not make his personal search experience independently checkable.
Caveats
- This assessment does not endorse his search method, its completeness or his implied doubts about Microsoft's disclosures.
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How we judged it
- Kind of claim
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- None given. We don’t add one.
Conditions
- I can find no evidence (their words)
Where we had to interpret
- This reports the result of Zitron's own search as of publication. It does not assert that no contrary public evidence exists or that Microsoft's actual additions were below a numerical ceiling.
- The surrounding discussion challenges Microsoft's capacity disclosures, but that does not remove the qualification in this sentence.
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What would settle it
Independent contemporaneous records of his search and findings could make the self-report checkable.
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Full record
Source and dates
Where's Your Ed At, Where Are All The Data Centers?, paragraph 41.
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We read this wording on 2026-10-28. The post may have been edited after 2026-05-12.
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: Where's Your Ed At, Where Are All The Data Centers?
As I’ll discuss below, I can find no evidence of anything more than a few hundred megawatts of Microsoft’s data center capacity coming online.
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- paragraph 41
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- 2026-05-12
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- full text, public
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