Dr. Abdul El-Sayed
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in terms of what you are going to provide a local community if you're bringing a data center in.
And then all of this needs to be reinforceable via very, very clear, very steep fees to make sure that data center operators are held accountable.
That said, I am worried because this is all happening so fast.
We're talking about an outlay of money that is greater than the amount of money that we spent to build the federal highway system under Dwight Eisenhower.
You're talking about huge amounts of capital.
So we need federal legislation.
We've needed federal legislation and things like an actual regulatory agency at the federal level that can hold some of these hyperscalers accountable.
The ability to make sure that you know your customer when you're selling them compute.
So you're not selling it to some actor who wants to use this for malevolent means.
The ability to just make sure we have rigorous testing standards so these models don't go rogue.
All of that is stuff we should have had two years ago.
And we're only now starting to talk about.
So we need leaders who both understand this technology and are not bought off by the corporations who are building it.
And I'm hoping I can offer that kind of leadership in the Senate.
Yeah, well, you're right.
Both of my opponents just released poll numbers.
In one of their polls, I have the highest favorability.
In the other poll, after all the voters are informed, I go up over the other two.
That puts us in some really good positioning.
When both of your opponents' internal polls show you pretty strong, you recognize why it is that they are now engaging in what seems to be a pretty coordinated smear campaign about a campaign event I'm doing with a Twitch streamer.