Ilya Fushman

We don't need to do a moratorium, but we have to do it with the buy-in of communities across the country.

Because I know there's communities that want data centers that are coming to ours right now.

If we had all our data centers, it takes up more power than the city of D.C., and we're doubling the number of data centers.

So we have too many in one spot.

That's a national security concern as well.

What we really need to do is just start spreading out the data centers across the country and getting it in places where community buy-in is there.

We need to give them a voice in Congress, at the state level, at the local level.

Every level of government needs to give their constituents a voice.

And we don't have to be adversarial all the time to tech.

We can work together and we can solve this together.

But certainly we have to make sure the constituents' voices do have a say, do have a seat in the table, because otherwise there's going to be a huge backlash towards data centers.

You're starting to see it more prominently now, right?

Now you've got members of Congress introducing these moratoriums.

You're going to see it even more prominently if they continue to steamroll these communities.

Yes and no.

I'd like to see exactly what they mean by that.

Because, you know, a lot of times people talk about SMRs, small modular nuclear reactors.

Essentially, you need three or four of them for each data center.

And who wants those nuclear reactors next to their homes, for instance?

What it comes down to, Congressman, on the industry side, they would argue they take on the capital burden of grid modernization.