David Wallace-Wells
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 12 Aug
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The last part I wanted to the last question I wanted to ask you about the now is about the political situation in the US.
So this has been something that I've been following, writing about now for a while, and it still astonishes me.
Almost every month there's a new poll showing, you know, the incredible resistance to data center building.
I mean, I would go even further.
We now have like real policy implications here.
In New York, there's a moratorium on data centers.
And they just this week announced that in Texas they're putting a pause on attaching data centers, new data centers to the grid.
Yeah.
Which is especially striking to me because when I first started thinking about, reporting on, writing about data center backlash, I would have said to you, I maybe did say to you in June, I don't remember, I would have said to you.
One of the things that's driving this is that people are seeing an oligarchy building a new economy over which they have no democratic control.
And they are expressing that anger in these town halls.
But at core, it's about the fact that the future is being built without their consent.
And what we've watched over the last few months is actually an incredibly
On some level, inspiring populist backlash.
I have questions about exactly what the agenda there is.
I think people are confused about some of the environmental issues.
I think.
But nevertheless, we have seen a significant uprising against this technology and the economic future that it promises.
Despite the fact that not that long ago, I think many of us, maybe even you and I, were looking at it being like, I don't know if anybody's going to be.
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