Data Center Infrastructure Podcast - Ep 3 - Why AI Data Centers Are Leaving the Grid w/ Jake Corley

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The line for grid power in Texas has grown past 400 gigawatts. Jake Corley decided to skip the line entirely. In episode three of the Data Center Infrastructure Podcast, Lance Teel and Eric Sonner sit down with Jake Corley, Marine Corps veteran and founder of Corley Energy, who is building off grid data center infrastructure on a West Texas site so remote he calls it Wile E. Coyote territory. No municipal water. No local rates to affect. No neighbors. And natural gas so abundant that producers were at times paying to get rid of it, now locked up on long term contracts and turned into AI compute. This is the island power episode, and it covers the biggest shift happening in the industry…