Doug Burgum
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1,008 appearances
32 recordings
11 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 5 Jun
Doug Burgum’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And they haven't figured out how to protest.
They can protest pipelines.
They've made that into an art form, but they haven't figured out how to protest a fiber optic cable yet.
So the way that the U.S.
is going to get through this is we're going to have some pockets of sanity that embrace this and understand the benefits it's going to mean to the education of their kids.
I mean, if you don't want to...
And in my state of North Dakota, when I was governor, last thing before I left office, we brought a $1.2 billion data center to an 800 person community.
And they not only lowered their electric rates, the property tax revenue going into the school district from that one data center was more than like the entire rest of the county.
And so you could lower everybody else's property taxes, lower their electric rates.
They had one cafe, now they've got four.
They hadn't had a new home in 30 years, now there's 30 new homes built by the company that was building the AI manufacturing.
So there's a way to do this.
But if somebody's coming into your town and saying, be afraid, be afraid of AI, and they're telling you it's about water, it's about power, it's about your electric rates,
This is the be afraid, send me a check crowd that was hyping up the climate fantasy for the last 20 years.
And they found out it's hard to get people hyped up about one degree of climate change in 2100, especially when it's not true.
And the computer models don't support that.
But they have been able to get people hyped up about, hey, your power bill is going to go up if there's an AI manufacturing in your state.
But of course, that's also not true because the places where electricity rates have gone up have been the states that were chasing
We're chasing energy transition and having aggressive energy transition policies.
Their electric rates have already gone up.
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