Benjamin Grant, known for his Daily Overview Instagram page, provided satellite images showing expansive data centers emerging across vast landscapes in the United States over recent years, including some of the largest data center constructions in the country. Grant said he had been contemplating the perfect timing for a data center timelapse given AI’s prominence in headlines over recent years, and questioned whether a pause in frontier model development by major tech players like OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI due to safety concerns might slow physical expansions or whether the infrastructure race has gained unstoppable momentum. The push for a slowdown was echoed by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei last weekend, with industry leaders like Elon Musk of SpaceX and Sam Altman from OpenAI agreeing. Grant stated that AI infrastructure is a transformative force reshaping the U.S. landscape, highlighting the hundreds of acres cleared for these massive campuses and their environmental implications, as voters express concerns over their environmental impact and the broader implications of AI.