Cenk Uygur
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2,844 appearances
7 recordings
7 series
first heard Aug 2024
last heard 4 Jun
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So that's not remotely the issue.
OK, so the question is, are we going to pay our own costs?
So now on the AI data centers.
In the beginning, I started reading these stories about how the data centers are driving up the energy costs for everybody in that community that they're based in.
And I couldn't believe it.
But then I thought, OK, since we have basically legalized bribery in America, that probably is true.
They probably, you know, gave in enough campaign contributions to make this happen.
And it turns out they have.
No, if you're going to do a data center, you have to pay for it and you have to pay for all of its costs.
None of this subsidizing your costs to the average taxpayer was not getting anything out of it.
So we have to be absolutely meticulous about who's paying for the cost of the data centers.
And it should be the businesses that profit from it, unless...
You'd like to have the American people take some equity in your business because if we're going to pay your costs, well, obviously we should have equity in it.
When we bailed out the bankers back in 2008, it was an absolute crime.
We should have taken equity in those companies and then sold it later for a profit.
I don't want the government to run banks, but I do want us to not be suckers.
We constantly pay for the research of the drug companies and never get any equity.
So if you're going to be capitalists, let's be capitalists.
Now, the real reason why people are most angry about AI is not even the data centers.
And they have every right to be livid about their energy costs being higher so somebody else can make a buck.
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