Aug 27, 2026 · 26 min · 11 segments
In this episode, Betsy and Michael sit down with Congressman Suhas Subramanyam. The congressman is in the final stretch of his campaign for a second term in the House where he sits on several…
Well, I think we are straying away from him with regard to data centers, which also seems to be bringing together an interesting coalition of people in that Nobody wants them.
That issue has just been dominating the news and people all around the country.
And of course, here in Virginia, where we are the data center capital of the world, our residents have made it very clear they're fed up with the unrestrained development, noise, energy bills, the demand for power that is not sustainable.
What do you think needs to be put in place to address the challenges and the problems they've created?
A national moratorium, I think is a little too far because there are communities where it makes sense, where we could actually put them and they have regulations in place where the communities won't have to pay for them or they don't have communities there at all.
I do think that longer term, if we want to develop technology, we do need to build some data centers and, but what I don't think we need to be doing is building data centers in places where the power infrastructure is going to be paid for on the backs of our utility bills or where they're going to be put in communities that don't want them.
this point,
They stopped polling and they're like, hey, guys, now we need to veer to the left on data centers.
And the president going out there and calling them liquid gold is just great.
Don't let the Republicans say that they're opposed to data centers now because they never were supportive of putting checks and balances in place when it came to data centers.
Well, I think we are straying away from him with regard to data centers, which also seems to be bringing together an interesting coalition of people in that Nobody wants them.
That issue has just been dominating the news and people all around the country.
And of course, here in Virginia, where we are the data center capital of the world, our residents have made it very clear they're fed up with the unrestrained development, noise, energy bills, the demand for power that is not sustainable.
What do you think needs to be put in place to address the challenges and the problems they've created?
A national moratorium, I think is a little too far because there are communities where it makes sense, where we could actually put them and they have regulations in place where the communities won't have to pay for them or they don't have communities there at all.
I do think that longer term, if we want to develop technology, we do need to build some data centers and, but what I don't think we need to be doing is building data centers in places where the power infrastructure is going to be paid for on the backs of our utility bills or where they're going to be put in communities that don't want them.
this point,
They stopped polling and they're like, hey, guys, now we need to veer to the left on data centers.
And the president going out there and calling them liquid gold is just great.
Don't let the Republicans say that they're opposed to data centers now because they never were supportive of putting checks and balances in place when it came to data centers.
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