David Remnick

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The New Yorker Radio Hour · Bernie Sanders Takes on Data Centers · 14 Aug 2026 podcast

This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. voice-verified

This is the New Yorker radio hour. voice-verified

I'm David Remnik, and I've been speaking today with Senator Bernie Sanders. voice-verified

Sanders consistently polls as one of the most popular politicians in the country, and he's taken up a cause that cuts across party lines, resistance to data centers that are being built all across the United States. voice-verified

Sanders has been in Congress since 1991, so he saw the rise of the internet from the vantage point of Capitol Hill, and I wanted to ask him about how the government has dealt with disruptive innovation in the past. voice-verified

How is this different from other historical instances in which there's rapid technological change? voice-verified

I don't mean voice-verified

you know, horse and buggy movement. voice-verified

But the rise of the uh uh the rise of the automobile. voice-verified

The rise of electricity, the rise of the internet. voice-verified

But I have to tell you, Senator Sanders, when I would watch congressional hearings about the internet. voice-verified

I did not have any great faith. voice-verified

in the in our our elected representatives and their knowledge of what the internet was about. voice-verified

This was exemplified by watching a member I th I think it I don't remember it was a senator or congressman, I believe it was a senator. voice-verified

Asking the head of Facebook how they made money, not understanding a thing. voice-verified

about these technologies and they sounded like you'll forgive me, the way my kids treat me with technology or or I would have treated my parents with a certain kind of voice-verified

You know voice-verified

Eyebrow lifted condescension. voice-verified

And then they just went to town and did whatever the hell they wanted. voice-verified

Ет результати і вони трансформації бер. voice-verified

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