{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Big Digital Energy","title":"Chevron Buys Texas Ranch to Dodge Lawsuit, Wind Blade Graveyards & Musk's Space AI | BDE 02.13.26","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/274f93fe\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2554,"description":"Kirk, Chuck, and Mark cover Chevron's settlement to buy a West Texas ranch rather than face trial over decades of alleged pollution, Ken Paxton's lawsuit against a fiberglass recycling site turned wind turbine blade graveyard, and Elon Musk's plan to put AI data centers in space powered by solar panels. They debate whether the space data center concept is real or just Musk messing with software guys, discuss BP suspending share buybacks to reduce debt after their energy transition distraction, and reflect on Expand Energy leaving Oklahoma City nearly a decade after Aubrey McClendon's death, marking the end of an era for the company he built.\nClick here to watch a video of this episode.\n\n00:00 - Welcome and first concert stories\n02:11 - Chevron West Texas ranch settlement\n08:27 - Environmental litigation implications\n11:12 - Wind turbine blade graveyard lawsuit\n17:23 - Green energy waste problem\n19:02 - Elon Musk's space AI data centers\n24:24 - Building data centers in space\n27:35 - Earth's electricity limitations\n30:55 - Space compute infrastructure race\n33:16 - BP suspends share buybacks\n37:38 - Expand Energy leaving Oklahoma City\n41:19 - Houston's oil and gas consolidation\nhttps://twitter.com/collide_io\nhttps://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io\nhttps://www.facebook.com/collide.io\nhttps://www.instagram.com/collide.io\nhttps://www.youtube.com/@collide_io\nhttps://bsky.app/profile/digitalwildcatters.bsky.social\nhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/collide-digital-wildcatters","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/iy6jIYchYeWUZ4i3KMDwG--bihbqsPBgMZtYTL4T32g/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81NTQ3/MzlhMzY1MzgyZDM4/NTZiMjQwNTg0YmNj/NDZiZS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}