Anthony Zurcher

There had been talk about investment, but that's

farther down the road.

And he says that this next round of negotiations on the Iran deal, after this memorandum of understanding, the negotiations that are going to hammer out the details of Iran's nuclear program, how they're going to address that, those are going to actually be easier than the negotiations they've had so far.

So it was a very optimistic, upbeat American president.

I think that gives a flavor of exactly how controversial these data centers are becoming all across the United States.

It's at these town halls and local elections where the politicians are really feeling the heat from angry constituents.

They are concerned about the rapid expansion of these data centers, the amount of electricity that they are using, the amount of water that they are sucking up, the possible environmental consequences of these large buildings being dropped in their local communities.

hear from that as well, that this isn't a partisan issue, a very rare case where there are conservatives and liberals who are speaking out.

There was a poll the other day that upwards of 70 percent of Americans don't want data centers near where they live.

Exactly.

They are looking at the bottom line and they're trying to figure out how to continue to keep up with the demand from American companies and global companies for these AI services.

And they need to find ways of being able to meet that demand.

And that requires these massive centers.

The one in Utah, I believe, is proposed to use as much electricity as the rest of the state of Utah put together, which is an eye-watering number.

So they have to try to find ways

ways to generate electricity they have to find an abundant water supply and they have to find a way to get around these attempts on a local level to impose moratoriums on data centers and to make it more difficult for them to be built in their communities i think you heard from that one one voter in in texas who's a conservative in texas is a typically a republican state being open to voting for democrats for the opposition party because of this they're becoming

one-issue voters.

So I think both parties see peril if they don't acknowledge the concerns of voters.

But it's part of a larger concern about AI technology and its disruptive effects, its ability to replace humans with AI agents, and it will cost people their jobs.

And that all kind of bundled together is what makes this such a potent issue.