Adam Sosnick
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AI data centers that have already empirically been shown to drive up local electric bills.
Does that help 30-year-old men get married and buy a home?
It depends on the job that the data center is creating.
because somebody may say, well, if I'm going to go like your grandmother, right, that teaches computer science AP, right?
Okay.
Your mom, your grandmother taught English.
This computer science teacher teaching AP, I'm in high school.
I'm being told go to AI, get a job in AI, be an engineer.
I may want a higher paying job,
that is created for that.
Now, for a Floridian, and you said it could generate $50 billion or $1 billion on the Citrus side, the investment, that's a different story, but it depends who you're asking.
It depends who you're asking.
Look, these AI data centers, they do create a couple dozen jobs, but they're people who are just walking the floor of their highly specialized labor.
I think if given the choice, we would rather revitalize the Florida Citrus industry as opposed to build giant AI data centers in Fort Meade or in Loxahatchee.
We have to do things that are going to benefit the most number of people.
And so the way I look at the economy is not through the GDP of Davos, not through the stock markets of Wall Street.
I think those are all fine and dandy.
But we need an actual economic measurement tool that understands and recognizes what real economic prosperity looks like.
were married and owned their home.
Guess what?