Corn or compute? Maxinomics examines the economics of an acre

Phil Andrews's four-upload week returns to the land, electricity and local costs behind AI data centers.

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Corn or data centers?

Maxinomics puts a cornfield and an AI data center on the same patch of imaginary land, then asks what each can earn. In "Corn or data centers?", Phil Andrews moves from farming to cattle to wind turbines before presenting a dramatically larger revenue estimate for AI compute: about $10 million per acre annually.

That is revenue, not a promise of profit for a landowner, and viewers are questioning what the comparison leaves out. Comments ask whether those returns can last, who pays for electricity and water, and whether food and AI belong in the same calculation at all. The clip was the most-watched of four new uploads, reaching roughly 32,000 views.

The other posts give that land-use question different angles: opposition to data centers compared with nuclear plants, an owner reconsidering a sale after learning the proposed use was a prison, and Loudoun County's wealth. The Loudoun upload currently draws the most daily views on the channel.

Behind those shorter arguments sits October's "What They're Not Telling You About Data Centers", which remains among the channel's busiest videos. Its longer investigation follows Northern Virginia's internet infrastructure into questions about cooling water, fragmented electricity grids and who shoulders the cost of new demand.

The audience grew this week, though subscriber growth was slower than over the broader month, and daily viewing is well below its usual level. Among nearby education channels, BBC Timestamp had the largest weekly views gain; Maxinomics had the next largest. For Andrews, the substantial viewing continues to come with a concrete question: what does a lucrative acre actually deliver to its neighbors?

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The videos drawing views on Maxinomics right now

Far more people say no to a data center today than said no to a nucle…24,474 views · 2026-10-29 Loudoun is the richest U.S. county. Residents are not rich because th…20,208 views · 2026-11-03 One owner said yes at $70,000 an acre, then no, once he learned it wa…19,402 views · 2026-11-02 What They're Not Telling You About Data Centers2,368,708 views

The numbers

Here is how Maxinomics's uploads and audience moved over the week.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

BBC Timestamp

2,102,024

Maxinomics

778,351

Asianometry

672,407

Cogito

346,982

Learn How to Sign

316,563

British Council | English

278,873

Fire of Learning

251,694

BBC Ideas

172,042

Athletic Interest

69,244

subscribers

828,000

▲ 4,000 in the last 7 days

total views

104,017,962

views per day

47,528

typical day: 203,449

first-day views of each video posted this week

Corn or data centers?

15,292

Far more people say no to a data center…

18,037

One owner said yes at $70,000 an acre, …

17,727

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Asianometry

968,000

BBC Timestamp

963,000

British Council | English

947,000

Learn How to Sign

934,000

Fire of Learning

904,000

Maxinomics

828,000

Cogito

809,000

Athletic Interest

789,000

BBC Ideas

705,000

As of November 4, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.