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Kansas roots. An open horizon.

The future
has roots.

AI is changing the world. I want to understand what it means for the places we call home—our farms, our water, and our communities.

Let's make sense of it I'm Tyler. Here's my story.
Golden evening light over rolling prairie hills and wildflowers
The Kansas horizonLand worth understanding. A future worth shaping.
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Understand the technologyStart with the right questions
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Know your local processFind the public record
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Put ideas to workFollow the farm experiment

The learning desk

Big changes.
Better questions.

You shouldn't need a technical degree to follow the conversation. Start here, then go straight to the sources.

Start here · Data centers

What is a data center, anyway?

Inside the buildings behind the internet—and the questions about power, water, and local responsibility that come with them.

Read the short introduction
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Start with the water.

Cooling · Consumption · Local supply

Water needs depend on the facility, its cooling system, its workload, and the climate. Water withdrawn is not the same as water consumed. Onsite cooling and water used to generate electricity are different parts of the picture.

A useful local question: what are the expected average and peak demands, and what changes during a drought?

Read Berkeley Lab's 2024 report ↗
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Who pays for the power?

Rates · Grid upgrades · Accountability

The answer starts with the actual utility, tariff, and service agreement. Ask who pays for new infrastructure and what happens if a large customer uses less electricity than expected—or leaves.

Kansas has an approved Evergy large-load rate plan. Its applicability still depends on the project and service territory.

Read the KCC decision announcement ↗
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A seat at the table starts here.

Records · Meetings · Useful questions

Find the proposal or draft regulation, identify the body making the decision, and read its official notice. Check whether a comment deadline is separate from the meeting date.

Write down what is established, what is being promised, and what you still need explained.

Kansas open-government resources ↗
Inside a data center: a short introduction

A data center houses computers, storage, and networking equipment, along with the electrical and cooling systems that keep them operating. Facilities serve many kinds of computing; some support AI workloads.

To understand a local proposal, ask for the actual plan:

  • Power: How much demand, from which utility, and who funds the upgrades?
  • Water: Which cooling system and water source, with what demand during hot or dry periods?
  • Community: What commitments will be written into agreements, and who checks whether they are met?

A national estimate helps explain the larger picture. It does not tell us what a particular site will use.

Read, share or print the full introduction →

Explore Berkeley Lab's data-center research ↗

The notebook is open

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the conversation.

Short updates on X. Useful guides here. Follow the questions from the first thought to the sources behind it.

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Close to home

What's happening near you

Data-center decisions get made town by town: a proposal, a hearing, a moratorium, a vote. The map shades each state by how the conversation is going, and every state opens to the records behind it.

19states with active data-center fights18 moratoriums on record · 35 measures on the Nov 3 ballot · 20 public dates in the next 60 days
Open the full map Kansas counties: Pottawatomie and Linn
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Data-center sentiment and tracked activity, one row per state
StateData-center sentimentTracked activityAI sentiment
AlabamaNo recordsNo recordsSource pending
AlaskaNo recordsNo recordsSource pending
Arizona1 record: too few to score1 tracked recordSource pending
ArkansasNo recordsNo recordsSource pending
CaliforniaStrongly opposed (score -1.00)3 tracked recordsSource pending
ColoradoStrongly opposed (score -0.75)4 tracked recordsSource pending
ConnecticutNo recordsNo recordsSource pending
DelawareNo recordsNo recordsSource pending
District of ColumbiaNo recordsNo recordsSource pending
FloridaStrongly opposed (score -1.00)3 tracked recordsSource pending
Georgia1 record: too few to score1 tracked recordSource pending
HawaiiNo recordsNo recordsSource pending
IdahoNo recordsNo recordsSource pending
IllinoisLeaning supportive (score +0.43)7 tracked recordsSource pending
IndianaNo recordsNo recordsSource pending
IowaNo recordsNo recordsSource pending
KansasLeaning opposed (score -0.27)13 tracked recordsSource pending
Kentucky1 record: too few to score1 tracked recordSource pending
LouisianaNo recordsNo recordsSource pending
MaineNo recordsNo recordsSource pending
Maryland1 record: too few to score1 tracked recordSource pending
MassachusettsNo recordsNo recordsSource pending
Michigan2 records: too few to score2 tracked recordsSource pending
MinnesotaNo recordsNo recordsSource pending
MississippiNo recordsNo recordsSource pending
MissouriStrongly opposed (score -0.50)6 tracked recordsSource pending
Montana1 record: too few to score1 tracked recordSource pending
Nebraska1 record: too few to score1 tracked recordSource pending
Nevada1 record: too few to score1 tracked recordSource pending
New Hampshire1 record: too few to score1 tracked recordSource pending
New JerseyNo recordsNo recordsSource pending
New MexicoNo recordsNo recordsSource pending
New YorkNo recordsNo recordsSource pending
North Carolina2 records: too few to score2 tracked recordsSource pending
North DakotaNo recordsNo recordsSource pending
OhioStrongly opposed (score -0.74)19 tracked recordsSource pending
Oklahoma1 record: too few to score1 tracked recordSource pending
OregonNo recordsNo recordsSource pending
Pennsylvania2 records: too few to score2 tracked recordsSource pending
Rhode IslandNo recordsNo recordsSource pending
South CarolinaNo recordsNo recordsSource pending
South DakotaNo recordsNo recordsSource pending
TennesseeNo recordsNo recordsSource pending
Texas2 records: too few to score2 tracked recordsSource pending
UtahNo recordsNo recordsSource pending
VermontNo recordsNo recordsSource pending
Virginia1 record: too few to score1 tracked recordSource pending
WashingtonNo recordsNo recordsSource pending
West VirginiaNo recordsNo recordsSource pending
WisconsinStrongly opposed (score -0.75)4 tracked recordsSource pending
WyomingNo recordsNo recordsSource pending
  • Strongly opposed
  • Leaning opposed
  • Divided
  • Leaning supportive
  • Strongly supportive
  • Tracked, under 3 rated records: too few to score (the number is its record count)
  • No records

Source: Singularity Farmer US data-center tracker · updated . How the score works

  • 1 record
  • 2–3 records
  • 4–7 records
  • 8 or more records
  • No records

The number on a state is its count of tracked records, past and cancelled ones included.

Source: Singularity Farmer US data-center tracker · updated . How the score works

  • Source pending: no data delivered yet

Source: Source pending. How the score works

Coming up

  1. Aligned public meeting, Amber-Pocasset High Schoolnear Amber (unincorporated), Grady County, OK
  2. Third/final public hearing, Gunning Rec CenterCleveland, Cuyahoga County, OH
  3. Public hearing on extending moratorium through Oct 11, 2027Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, NC
  4. Court hearing on petition lawsuitOsawatomie, Miami County, KS
  5. City Council meetingDe Soto, Johnson County, KS
  6. Court hearing on validity of ban initiativeOttawa, Franklin County, KS
  7. Current permit freeze scheduled to expireCleveland, Cuyahoga County, OH
  8. Comprehensive Plan public workshop, Senior Center RoomDe Soto, Johnson County, KS

See all 22 dates

The person behind the project

A boy from Kansas.
Still figuring
things out.

Tyler KlugManhattan, Kansas

I grew up in Salina and Solomon. I worked at Fort Riley for 13 years, all the way through graduating from the University of Kansas in 2014. Finally.

Seven years later, I came back to Kansas when my dad got sick. After a year building a regenerative farm south of Kansas City, I'm now in Manhattan, looking for the next piece of land to do it again.

Singularity Farmer is where I bring those parts of my life together: the land, the technology, and a desire to share what I'm learning.

More about coming home

My dad died on my birthday, October 12, the year I returned to Kansas. That is part of this story, too.

Follow the next chapter on X ↗
Salina & SolomonWhere I grew up
Fort Riley & KUWork and education
PleasantonA regenerative farm
ManhattanThe next chapter

On the land

Ideas need dirt
under their nails.

The farm work is part of this story. So is the research that goes into finding a place to build the next chapter.

The farm chapter · Pleasanton, Kansas

Black Swan Estate

The regenerative farm south of Kansas City that has been part of my last year. A place to connect this larger conversation to the work on the ground.

Explore Black Swan Estate Separate project website

The next property · Land research

Before you build, understand the land.

Water, terrain, access, and usable space. The existing Land Radar is part of the research we're carrying into this next chapter.

Open the existing Land Radar Existing tool · Data is being reviewed

For the next generation · In development

Learn the tools.
Bring your own curiosity.

We're shaping practical AI and robotics learning projects for young people interested in farming, with a path for educators and agricultural groups to take part.

Explore Kansas Extension's robotics resource ↗

There’s a lot to figure out.
Let’s keep asking good questions.

Field notes, useful sources, and the next chapter in Kansas.

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