Ben Horowitz

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15,347 appearances 53 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard yesterday

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The a16z Show · Greg Brockman on Why OpenAI Says We’re Entering the AGI Era · 14 Sep 2026 podcast

I think uh Switch employs like forty-five thousand uh people on kind of a union contract basis to c build data centers. matched

That's just one of the data center providers in the US. matched

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And and they're great jobs, they're high paying, uh matched

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actors in the data center space, um, most of them are very good actors and matched

contribute uh to the power grid. matched

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wastewater and uh are not noisy. matched

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Not that there was never an issue, but like we could just say, Hey, you have to be a well behaved data center as opposed to like we're gonna ban them. matched

Um or like we're gonna stop AI, uh, which I matched

Like we're not going to st even as a country, we're not big enough to stop AI. matched

Uh so the that idea like AI will continue without us uh and then we'll have zero say as opposed to we're the leaders and then we have all the say. matched

So it's really, really important cultural message. matched

you know, like I think making those kinds of things a requirement to build a data center is very reasonable. matched

Like let's have positive some ideas as opposed to, okay, we're gonna jump out of the AI game as a as a country and let uh China or whomever dictate what it's gonna be. matched

Yeah, and that's a a super positive advance because matched

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