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So I want you to hear Chris Wright talk about these data centers, CUD 51. Part of the Rate Payer Protection Pledge is if you're going to use a gigawatt of power, build help support the building of more than a gigawatt of power. It's not just covering your own costs, it's improving the economics and the economic opportunities for the community around you. And the signers of the Rate Payer Protection Pledge have embraced this.
So that's we know 40% of all the new data centers are being protested. One of which was, I don't want my utility bill to go up because the data center is sucking all the power.
So they say you got to, this is almost a voluntary thing, right? You have to have your own power and add to the grid of that state. You know me. I don't want more regulation, but I do think that I want more than just a pledge. We have come full circle with big tech.
I think I was not a fan during COVID when a lot of us felt censored for having different opinions. And then, of course, big tech has been cozying up to the president. And then I think there is a lot of good within AI and good in data centers. I think a lot of people don't trust big tech. And they're looking at Mark Zuckerberg and they're thinking, yeah, a little pledge doesn't really work.
We need more than that because we don't trust you.
So I do think that this needs to be something more than a pledge. And I have been arguing that. I think you should have representatives from these big tech companies go to these local city council meetings, hear what people are upset about, and then tell them how you are contributing back to the grid, how you're upgrading infrastructure, how you're relying on your own water. You're not pulling from the system. This is actually a really interesting backdoor way to start privatizing our utilities, which I love.
The utility sector is extremely regulated, government top-down. If we could have big tech come in there and sort of privatize it and create competition, I love that. But this is a not in my backyard issue. And frankly, I understand a lot of the frustration from people. Do these data centers.
in order to function optimally, have to be near a population. No.
So, I mean, they don't.
So, for example, if I want to help Boston, do I have to build something near Boston? I don't. Can I bring it into a rural area of Massachusetts? Yeah. I think you're I mean, I think so.
You're seeing tons of data centers go up in rural areas, and they are self-contained. They're bringing in their own portable water and their own portable electricity. Maybe they're have we had one instance where they were building transmission lines to pull in energy. But as long as they're contributing back to the grid, then I think people are more okay with it. I'm confused.
Where was all this outrage during like solar power and wind farms? Oh, yes. I don't know. I'm getting tons of outrage on data centers. I didn't get twice as, I mean, I got half the comments on solar power.
I worry that it's synthetically generated. It's not Mr. and Mrs. Johnson going to a town hall and being described, don't like the noise or don't like their bills. I worry about outside forces because we've already seen how it can manipulate through TikTok, especially.
Exactly. Yeah. I mean, if this were China, China is probably promoting solar powers because they build all the solar equipment.
So they're thrilled, which is why I never saw outrage over solar panels. And now all of a sudden, I'm seeing outrage 10 years later for data centers. They have these huge solar farms in New York, but she will not build a data center in New York. Will not frack in New York. Tell me why.
And what's interesting about New York is they didn't learn their lessons about fracking. When they banned that a decade ago, six, eight years ago, whatever it was. Everyone thought, like, okay, great, good for you. And now our power bills go up because we're having to import it. And they banned the constitutional pipeline in 2020.
And so we thought that would you describe that again? Where does that come from? And how Massachusetts and New York don't have it. Pennsylvania does. And therefore, our bills are higher than theirs.
Yes, because I mean, again, I understand that I don't want to look out my beautiful window or have the government come in and use eminent domain to take my property. I totally get that. But if I can build a shrub around a data center and it's off a highway where no one has to see it, and it helps power us in the future. And jobs and tax dollars into the coffers of your city. I know.
But all the pushback I get is those are temporary jobs. Once the data center is up and running, you've destroyed my land and then you don't need my electrician anymore. You don't need my HVAC or my plumber anymore. It's all temporary. Again, I'm not saying that I want to ban data centers.
That's Just I'm getting massive hate from someone, some entity, some people out there who are really not happy about this.
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Must be 21 or older to order. Please drink responsibly. I know you got to run. I had Mike Rowe on, and he is pro data center. He's going to put all those jobs in play.
And I also had Joe Lonsdale on when I filled in for Jesse on Sunday on Monday. And everyone's writing me about data centers pro and con. I go, where did this come from? I just did a whole show. That was the one segment.
I never thought twice about it. It was good. But that was all I got the next day.
So I sent it to my team. We're doing it again this weekend. Totally, because people have so many mixed feelings on it. And again, for me, I want big tech to go down to the local level and talk to people in their community. I don't need Meta put out a big national effort.
Today, about how they're pivoting to AI. Exactly. But that's because not one person on technology has communicated to people about data centers. They have to come out and tell us the why and the importance and where. Come on this program.
We've certainly invited them because there's a lot of people that are really angry. I will end on an optimistic note. We call this like the NIMBY, not in my backyard. SpaceX wants to do data centers in space, and then that's fine. You'll never have to look at them.
They'll all just be circling us in space. That'll be fantastic. And SpaceX can do it. Taylor Riggs, co-host of the big money show. It's starting today.
You'll be tired to start at one o'clock, right? Yeah, exactly. At one until. Two. Noon to two.
