David Friedberg
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4 series
first heard Apr 2024
last heard 21 Aug
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where the oil rig's gonna go, where the railroad's gonna go, where the telegraph line's gonna go, where the factory's gonna go.
If we don't put them here, someone else will put them on their shores, someone else will put them in their country, someone else will put them in their jurisdiction.
And a lot of the economic value that arises from the people that will build those facilities, the energy,
that will be installed to produce power for those facilities.
And then all of the second and third order industries that emerge as a result of those installations, that value will accrue elsewhere.
So yeah, it's not gonna like just go away, but the demand is there, the economy is moving forward, AI is moving forward.
We live in a world with 196 countries.
And data centers do not take up a lot of space.
They're very small relative to the economic value that they produce.
If you zoom out on the map of the world, all the data centers in the world fit under the tip of a pin.
And so this is a very small footprint.
And if we're gonna give up hundreds of thousands of jobs and many billions of dollars of economic value creation, we're being pretty silly and pretty obtuse in our view of the world.
I would just encourage the system that I think is the right system, and we talked about this last time, where provided data centers are producing their own electricity,
That means that you're taking electricity consumption off the grid, because they otherwise are not being used on the grid.
And that will reduce the cost of electricity for other residential and industrial users.
So it's silly to think that we need to put a moratorium on data centers.
As soon as you do that, the companies that use data centers are not going to slow down, they're going to go put them somewhere else, and we're going to miss out.
Well, I think there's and I just want to highlight this important point.
There's not a lot of logic and reason.
You guys are right.
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