Alex Vindman

We are suffering droughts in Florida right now, so we need to account for water usage.

But there may be places to put data centers that won't have that kind of devastating effect on utilities and costs.

And we want to make sure that we preserve enough space so that we maintain an edge with regards to artificial intelligence.

I'm willing to look at these different pockets and figure out what's the correct path, but with the first principle of do no harm, make sure we protect the local community, and also figure out if there's a way to build a 21st century economy in Florida.

I am skeptical.

I'm skeptical that we have a leadership that is postured to do that.

I think what we'd probably want to do is undertake a pretty deliberate process to educate ourselves and

And I'm happy to play a role.

This is an area that I know I need to get smarter on.

I understand the big strategic, I'm a geopoliticist, so I understand the big strategic impact.

But, you know, in terms of the nuances, I don't think there are too many people that have that kind of deep expertise.

But it is something that I'd want to undertake and get some level of mastery of to be able to come up with thoughtful legislation that looks at the top layer, preserving innovation,

doing no harm to communities, but also what this means five years from now with regards to massive layoffs and the fact that young folks are having an impossible time landing jobs right now coming out of universities.

That's right.

What troubles me is that part of the challenge that we're seeing today within the strife in our society is that politicians from a generation ago

knew that there was going to be a disruption with regards to globalization, understood that deindustrialization would mean that there are job losses, and failed, utterly failed to account for these realities because it was too hard.

They were unwilling to take, to educate themselves, to communicate with the population and legislate in a way that foresaw the impacts

and preserved jobs, allowed folks to gain continuing education to retool for whatever it might be.

I've been following it to a certain extent.

Most of this fight unfolded as I was launching this campaign.