The Verge's reporting points at a blind spot of the AI boom: the industry sells weightless, clean intelligence, while its physical footprint is gas turbines parked next to residential areas. Texas is the telling case — cheap land, fast permitting and a strained grid make it the default site for hyperscale buildout, so the health costs concentrate there first. On our view, this will quickly stop being an environmental story and become a business constraint: local opposition, permitting fights and utility rate disputes are already emerging as real bottlenecks for compute expansion. It also exposes the gap between headline nuclear and renewables deals and what actually gets deployed on the ground — quick, dirty peaker capacity. Expect air quality to join water and electricity as a central theme in AI policy debates.