Rod Martin: The Battle For AI Data Science

And, and the, the other point that you've made that I think is so important is this new Democratic left-wing campaign against data centers is just like the Luddites in, in the Industrial Revolution who opposed the steam engine.

Uh, data centers, in fact, do not...

Uh, Trump is now requiring that data centers replace the power they're taking by their own sources of power, of electricity.

Bring your own power.

And, uh, and, and it's so outrageous that Hochul, the governor of New York, has banned data centers.

It's like banning the future.

No, it, it's like banning New York.

I, I, I mean, what are they thinking? The Democrats just absolutely want to freeze progress in place and then redistribute whatever it has created up to that point, but the rest of us are moving forward.

Texas is moving forward.

Florida, where I am, is moving forward.

And, and you're exactly right.

The solutions present themselves quite readily.

First of all, we've had data centers for forty-five, fifty years.

This isn't a new thing.

We know what we're doing-

Mm

... with those.

Uh, as far as water use, they really don't use that much water, but you can actually build data centers that use no water at all.

Well, you said-

They can be cooled with chillers

... you said something that I thought was really... really hurt your cause, which is you said that data centers use less water than our golf courses do.

Now-

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I work for a president that loves golf courses, okay?