David Wallace-Wells
speaker
599 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 12 Aug
David Wallace-Wells’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 4 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 3.
Appearances
Be able to take control of this.
And as a result, we now have in state after state and community after community really meaningful obstacles being put up to the build-out.
Now, I don't know what how that looks heading into the midterms.
I don't know how it looks heading out of the midterms.
It seems to me like, you know, one of the key stories in Abdullah Al Sayyid's success is um resistance to data centers.
Certainly it seems to be a big part of Frances Francesca Hong's
Um sort of apparent success in Wisconsin.
You know, we're seeing politics being shaped by public resistance to data centers.
And that is a big question mark going forward.
But if they are actually able to take command of the levers of power sufficient to block that development, you know, that is a big, big challenge for the subject of this conversation.
Which is, you know, the medium-term future of the AI sector.
How do you see that?
And a lot of the s industrial capacity is being actually built here.
And there there are even people who say like the models don't even really matter.
What really matters is just how much compute we're building.
I think some of them are saying that.
I mean, I saw, you know, Demas Asabis, who just stepped down from Google as part of this turmoil, has said he thinks that the AI revolution is going to be 10 times as significant as the Industrial Revolution at 10 times the speed, which somebody ran the numbers and is like, this suggests 50% GDP growth view on your nuts.
Well, that's what I mean.
So when they tell you that, you're like, that's ridiculous.
And when they tell you,
Showing 121–140 of 599 · page 7 of 30
← Previous
Next →