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Particularly now with China, just in weeks ago, putting on export controls on a number of minerals that we need for doing things like, you know, batteries that we need for electric motors, for whether it's cars or home drills or, you know, rockets, missiles. I mean, the magnets that are at risk now because we became so dependent on China.
losing the AI arms race to China is the real threat.
China last year brought on 94 and a half gigawatts of coal powered electricity. One gigawatt is Denver. So they brought on 94 Denver's just last year. That's more than all we have today for all of California and all of New York is less than 94. So they added a New York and a California worth of electricity last year, just from coal. They're still getting 60% of their base load from coal.
I was a corporate officer at Microsoft for seven years. I never went to a CapEx meeting. Right. Somebody said, well, weren't you invited? I said, no, there were no CapEx meetings. You know, we hired salespeople and software developers. And if we needed an office in Singapore or Munich, we rented it, leased it. And so there was no CapEx.
stayed there for seven years, helping grow Microsoft from 40,000 people to 90,000 people.