Who Powers AI?

I have a MotherDuck share of Epoch AI's US data-centre inventory (tables: data_centers, data_center_chips, data_center_timelines, data_center_chillers, data_center_cooling_towers). Profile it, then help me find the strongest narrative angle for a visual essay. I'm interested in who owns the physical infrastructure behind the major AI labs versus who rents it. Surface the key facts that would anchor that argument.

Build an interactive React/D3 visual essay for MotherDuck titled "Who Powers AI?". Thesis: the divide between labs that own their data centres and chips (Google, Meta) and those that rent (OpenAI, Anthropic) is quietly deciding who holds power in AI. Structure it as four numbered sections following the infrastructure from the ground up: the buildout, siting, the silicon, and the financing. Editorial dark theme, restrained palette, prose in a conversational voice

From the live queries, create: a US map of operational facilities sized by chip count and coloured by owner with a styled hover tooltip; a horizontal bar chart of chip deployments coloured by vendor (NVIDIA, Amazon, Google); a single divided bar showing the owned-vs-rented split of total compute; and a 2x2 chart placing each lab by how much infrastructure it owns against how diversified its business is. Each needs a clear title that states the finding.

Add a lab selector so clicking any AI lab re-threads the entire essay: the KPI tiles, every chart, and the section prose all reorient to that company, with lab-specific commentary in each section. Include a clear "Explore by AI lab" control and a way to return to the full story.

Act as a tough editor. Read the whole essay critically: tighten the prose to a consistent conversational voice, cut jargon and vague antecedents, reconcile every figure against the underlying data, verify and fix the source citations, and make sure the conclusion ties back to the central owner-versus-renter thread rather than trailing off.