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True but my issue isn’t with you. It’s with the political bs we deal with. Here in Idaho we farm. Farmers use migrant workers. Are they here legally ? Wellll? Let’s change the subject. Crap like that pisses me off. Oh look a meat packing plant employs 700 local migrants, let’s do it. Packing plants use tons of water. Water is a big deal here in Idaho. A couple plants start up. The water table goes down, my well pump needs dropped. Big money locals don’t care. Power is the same. Get ChatGBT, Grok, etc sure build here we got all you need. Mean time water goes away and your power bill goes up. There ain’t no free lunch. Regards

All 3 of us are going to be Idaho locals. I hope the SMR work at INL comes to fruition. We all have an interest in seeing the water and power issues in a favorable form. We had a "mild" Winter. Too little snow pack in the mountains. It's going to be a difficult Summer for water. It annoys me to see all of the apartments being built around Pocatello and Idaho Falls. When I arrived in 2000, water was a big deal with respect to how much development was permitted. A developer wasn't allow to build without affirming adequate resources. It seems that level of care has been dropped in favor of lining the pockets of the local politicians. The farm fields and empty lots are sprouting apartments and pricing them far too high for the kind of income produced by the local labor market.