David Friedberg
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4 series
first heard Apr 2024
last heard 21 Aug
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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.
But I do think there's a lot of emotion.
And there's a huge aversion to big tech, a huge aversion to wealth creation by select individuals, select companies, a huge aversion to economic growth that doesn't benefit everyone.
there's a fundamental kind of underlying left behind emotion that drives a lot of this.
And I've said it before, but I think unless there's systems or mechanisms that get folks to come along with the value creation ahead and help them connect their own lives to the value creation that's being realized,
They're not going to be supportive because there is this kind of diametric opposition towards big tech, towards the wealth gap, towards value accrual to a select few companies or select few individuals.
And this fuels and feeds that.
So I think fundamentally, maybe it's not just about giving the data centers their own power capacity, but there's got to be mechanisms and tools that helps it.
The broader population understand or recognize or get some benefit from it as well, where they're an owner in it or participant in it, because they have the power.
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