Niching on Weird Data w/ AI Solves Ice Cream, Movies & Power Bottlenecks | The Pirate Street Journal

The Pirate Street Journal · Sep 7, 2026 · 32m

HERE'S WHAT WE COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:

1. New York said no. Boise said yes 48 years ago and is still cashing the check.

On July 10 New York became the first state to ban new data centers. Governor Hochul froze permits for up to a year, and lawmakers are pushing for three. In 1978 four people started a memory company in the basement of a dental office in Boise. Micron now employs 6,000 people and is the third largest private employer in Idaho. Its newest fab is a $15 billion bet, the largest private investment in state history and the first new memory fab in America in 20 years. That is 2,000…