Hyperscalers are 4500 years old

You look at the Great Pyramid and the first thing that hits you is the physicality of their math. 2.3 million blocks, each weighing about 2.5 tons on average, quarried and moved into position over roughly 20 years. Then you look at a hyperscale datacenter campus and the numbers rhyme. Microsoft's campus in Quincy, Washington consumed over 1.8 million tons of concrete in construction. Both projects are, at root, logistics problems masquerading as engineering ones. When the material is that heavy, the building site is not really a choice. The pyramids sit where they sit because of the Tura limestone quarries across the river and the Nile itself, which floated the stone downstream. The river was infrastructure before the word existed. Modern datacenters cluster near hydroelectric dams, fiber landing stations, and cheap land with cold air. The constraint is the same: get the heavy stuff close to the energy, or get the energy close to the heavy stuff. That constraint runs deeper than…