Christian OsgoodCEO, Multifamily Strategy · CEO at Multifamily Strategy

Data Center Conspiracy: Birds Exploding

7 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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A speaker uses the absurd conspiracy that birds explode over data centers to critique how online groups sensationalize environmental concerns. He argues traditional data centers are cold and consolidating, then pivots to why companies increasingly want sovereign infrastructure that keeps their data away from big AI and cloud providers like Anthropic and Microsoft.

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Data centers don't have a lot of impact, right? And a lot of people say negative impact. And you can go to, there's these fantastic Facebook hate groups that data centers that say that birds are gonna explode as they fly over them. I'm not even joking. That's like a big conspiracy right now. That's awesome. Yeah. Too bad birds aren't real. No, I'm just kidding. You seen that one? That's one of my favorite conspiracy theories. No, but so I didn't really enjoy the data center space because it just felt kind of cold and it's different. It's not really a construction piece because it's got a lot of mergers and acquisitions in there. There's a lot of— there's power now you have to get provided in there. Then I started talking to people about, you know, what the impact is for companies, for what's called sovereign data centers and digital infrastructure. And that's when I got interested because now it's, it's taking people's information and it's actually protecting it. So now it's kind of go back to my roots, what I did in the Intel world, working with State Department and getting people to take care of their own stuff. Now it's the same idea where it's, you know, We don't let Anthropic come, or I'm repeating myself, Steve, uh, Microsoft, or these big corporations that are just scraping and stealing all your information, all your data, which could be your secrets for how you run your company, right?