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Sep 11, 2026
Jasmine SunGUEST
Mm-hmm.
Ezra KleinHOST
And how much of it is actually something that is more related to people's feelings about AI, which is I don't want this built here because why would I wanna pay the cost for a thing that I don't want there to even be more of in the first place?
Jasmine SunGUEST
place?This, I think, was one of my big motivating questions going into this trip is, is it, quote-unquote, "normal NIMBYism?" Is it about AI? Is it about something else? And so I spent time both looking at polls and trying to talk to people about would you be excited if this was a chip factory, which would use a lot more water and pollute a lot more? Would you be excited if it was a solar farm also maybe acquiring agricultural land and turning it into industrial use? Would you be excited if it was a million other things? And, um, I talked to Nick Bagley, who you've had on your show, about is this just proceduralism? And we talked about the solar farms example, where solar farms, uh, the opposition used very similar tactics to the data center opposition.
Jasmine SunGUEST
They were organizing in Facebook groups.
Jasmine SunGUEST
They were packing town hall, halls.
Jasmine SunGUEST
They clearly saw it as kind of like a widget, a, a toy, um, and maybe there are these risks, maybe there's the job stuff, but fundamentally, they were like, "This thing is not that useful.
Jasmine SunGUEST
I don't really see in my personal life how this could justify these gigantic valuations." And so I was talking to, for example, um, Charles Franklin, who runs Marquette Law Polls in Wisconsin, and he was explaining that usually you see 50/50 polling on issues where you have a strong anti case and a strong pro case.
Jasmine SunGUEST
And the only reason you're kind of seeing this 70/30 bipartisan opposition to data centers, no matter whether you live near a data center or you don't, which means it's not just NIMBYism, it's you don't want a data center in anyone's backyard, um, is because he was like, "There is no strong pro argument for it.
speaker_9SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
A lot of people see the economic advantage of having a data center in their backyard.
speaker_9SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
All the noise you're hearing is from people that are NIMBYism, don't want it in their backyard.
speaker_9SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But there are a lot of people in those same communities that do want them there for the taxes, the economic growth that they bring to their...
speaker_9SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Most voters are in urban areas where data centers aren't.
Jim McTagueGUEST
They're just dead set against data centers as if it's some kind of a disease that can't be stopped.
John BatchelorHOST
Yeah, it's NIMBY stuff.
John BatchelorHOST
All right, let's go back to the editorial board.
John BatchelorHOST
What's going to move them to stop with the propaganda? I don't know.
Tim MontgomeryGUEST
and attractive to the rise of England.
Tim MontgomeryGUEST
And the Tories focus on the South, the pensioner, the NIMBY.
Tim MontgomeryGUEST
And neither party reached to be the big, broad, centre-right party this country needs.
Tim MontgomeryGUEST
And so not only is the right divided at the moment, they're hating on each other.
Floyd MarchPANELIST
So I tried to snatch him at the end, but he did kind of scurry off.
Floyd MarchPANELIST
But yeah, it does take Nimbism to the actual next level because the pipes that we saw was literally on the other side of someone's fence.
Floyd MarchPANELIST
So I was tempted to knock on their door and ask, like, how happy are you with them? But they got the DCO, so I guess that doesn't matter these days.
Floyd MarchPANELIST
And the ground will be dug back over.
JasonHOST
I have been to the promised land.
JasonHOST
It was supposed to be in San Francisco, but the NIMBYs fucking killed it.
JasonHOST
So you went to LA.
HaitchHOST
It was supposed to be a Treasure Island originally.
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Imelda PadillaGUEST
I don't wanna create a situation where we have isolation of seniors, mental health issues from kids 'cause they can't play.
Imelda PadillaGUEST
You know, we have to build with dignity, and we also have to be about the accountability of those who are getting funded to help us alleviate this in this generation.
Diosa FemmeHOST
You mentioned, um, you know, everyone coming to the table and, like, everyone being part of the solutions, and my question for you is getting, like, our neighbors, right? The, the NIMBYs.
Diosa FemmeHOST
The folks who don't want solutions in their backyard because they see homelessness as a nuisance as opposed to a humanitarian issue.
Diosa FemmeHOST
And I'm curious, like, in your experience, how you meet those people.
Diosa FemmeHOST
So I'm curious how you navigate that.
Imelda PadillaGUEST
You know, you, you just have to listen.
Imelda PadillaGUEST
My experience in all of these years of being involved in local politics, you know, homelessness is not the only issue that brings out the NIMBYs, right? They, um, when there is a new, um...
BillyHOST
So yeah, idiots out there don't care until it affects them.
BillyHOST
The NIMBYs out there, not in my backyard, they don't care unless it affects them.
BillyHOST
But anyway, we got a country full of them.
BillyHOST
And folks, this is why I keep telling everybody in every podcast we do, you better stay alert, stay alive, because right now between 9/11 and all that unfolded there, they know the luster has worn off of that one, so they did COVID.
Kelly EvansHOST
But it will feed this idea that utility bills are going up.
Paul PragerGUEST
But I think our industry has suffered for a few months now with the NIMBY concerns, the not in my backyard concerns.
Paul PragerGUEST
And I think the industry has done a really good job of getting organized around it.
Paul PragerGUEST
And I think, one, there is a lot of misinformation.
Brian SullivanHOST
So the Wall Street target is double where your stock is now.
Brian SullivanHOST
So what are investors missing about this
Paul PragerGUEST
story? I think the NIMBY story took center stage over the summer and the whole space traded down.
Paul PragerGUEST
I think, you know, if you just take a look at what we've got contracted, everybody would say our stock price should be higher.
Jody VanceHOST
She would rip up every plan that's been put together from the Broadway plan to the Villages plan to the Jericho Lands plan.
Jody VanceHOST
It is some significant NIMBYism at a time where I don't know that that...
George AffleckHOST
It's ridiculous.
George AffleckHOST
And she's always
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