Chris Friedberg
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And then they will fill those batteries when the electricity is cheap, they'll deploy it when it's expensive, they get the arbitrage.
And I said to him on the show, the only charge for consumers is $500 or $1,000 to install it just so they have some skin in the game.
You don't have to rip your roof apart and put solar on.
It's just batteries.
And I said, well, why don't you do that and do an entire neighborhood?
Like when they build these 3,000 home infill neighborhoods, why don't you put them on every single one and then create a network for data centers?
And he said, stand by.
That's exactly what we're working on.
So it kind of combines your idea.
Sax, you're the czar.
What are your thoughts on what Chamath points out is, which is the average working American and their perception of AI, you have job loss, you have electric bills going up, and then you have, hey, fake news, the reality, is this real or not?
These Sora slop videos I'm seeing, it feels like there's a little bit of a trend towards a negative framing of the AI innovation, and maybe it's not going to help the bottom half of society.
Are you seeing that?
Do you believe it?
And do you have plans to counter it?
Freiburg, CEO of Uber and Tesla believe the opposite.
They think these driver jobs are gone pretty quickly.
The data is showing there's a bit of a serious problem right now with young people getting jobs specifically because of AI.
And obviously GDP is not wages.
The people we're talking about who are affected by these job losses don't own equities.