Ben Horowitz

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15,026 appearances 51 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 9 Sep

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

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And and there are so many, y you know, one of the interesting things about data centers is it creates so many blue-collar manufacturing jobs. matched

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

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