A data center for artificial intelligence needs as much electricity as a small city, and it needs it on a date. The halls can be raised in months. The line to the grid, the transformers that step its power down and the county's permission take years, and none of them can be bought faster with money alone.
That is the trap the game is built on. A careful player finishes the halls early and then waits — on the utility's queue, on a transformer still at sea, on a vote that went the other way — while the tenant's deadline comes closer every month.
The calls below are this month's, made by real officials and companies, with the reasons they gave. Each one is a door the game opens in a run.
