The Hyatt Place near LAX might cease to be a hotel soon.
Or at least, it will stop sleeping people.
Plans are circulating to turn that specific property into a data center. It sits at 750 North Nash Street in El Segundo. It’s not even that old, really—built less than fifteen years ago—but in California, zoning laws make data centers rarer than hen’s teeth. Where you can actually build them? You do.
The proposal involves demolishing the existing structure and replacing it with a new five-story building. About 160 feet tall. It will house roughly 230,00 square feet of server space plus a brand new electrical substation.
Bureaucracy comes next. They need to amend the Environmental Impact Report for the El Segundo Corporate Campus. That original study looked at the block bounded by Nash, Mariposa, Douglas, and the C Line right-of-way. It’s all legal procedure for turning bedrooms into chip storage.
A Question of Value
The headline implies rooms for chips are now worth more than rooms for humans. That stings a bit, or it should. But the market speaks in dollars, not dignity.
Speaking of value, let’s talk about the eternal debate: Is wearing a Rolex in coach class a flex?
Why does anyone care? If you love your watch, buy the watch. If you hate turbulence, fly first class. Quit trying to perform for the seat next to you. Mimetic desire is a trap. Just exist in your lane.
Normally, you never want to pick up a lost ring someone “found” for you in Paris. Just… don’t. It’s the scam that keeps on giving.
Travel Snippets and Theft
Southwest Airlines flyers are in a weird limbo right now. Half the 737 Max fleet has ViaSat. That means Wi-Fi actually works. The other half? Unusable. A gamble every time you book. They are moving toward Starlink, which is the silver lining here, I guess.
And remember that card recommendation? Yes. Use that for foreign transactions. I’m serious.
Bad news at the Trump International Golf Club in Sunny Isles. First, a front desk agent was caught stealing cash payments. He’d take the money, charge it to his own credit card for the points, and keep the bill. Over $100,001 worth of it. The hotel hated paying the swipe fees, obviously.
Then came this.
A guest left a black fanny pack on the dresser. Inside were roughly $6,500 hundred-dollar bills. He was out watching soccer. Argentina played Cape Verde in Miami that Friday. When he came back the next day? Money gone.
Police checked the cameras. They checked the keycard logs. Another employee is now accused of lifting the cash from that same room.
Two weeks apart. Same resort.
It’s hard to believe hospitality still involves people trusting strangers with their wallets. Or maybe it’s just that greed has better technology than the locks.
What else do you expect when you hand over your life, even briefly?
