Jason Calacanis

The makers of those tools are telling everybody that they're about to bring death and destruction upon the economy and the world.

So then the lawyers and the doctors are like, well, then maybe we should slow this down.

And they tell their lobbyists who then go to New York and then tell the New York legislators, hey, these guys are like trying to wreak havoc.

And then they're like, oh, yeah, well, then maybe we should shut it down.

That is the loop that's happened.

Who probably writes negatively about AI.

Here, Sax, look at this chart.

It goes back now a little bit earlier than 23, but I had the data accurately from 23, so we're going into the fourth year.

About 40% of all protested data centers in America get canceled.

And so in 2023, this was a non-issue.

There were a few data centers that were protested, and a few of those, 40% of them, I think it was literally like one or two, got canceled.

But then starting in 24, when you have this divergence of messaging or this chaotic slipshod messaging, and it was just a fever pitch to raise money, what you started to see was this fomenting of negative perspective by individual people on the ground.

And so in 2024, about 40% of all protested data centers were canceled.

Still a small number, you could ignore it.

But last year was when the bottom fell out.

we had about 25 data centers canceled, about five gigawatts that got canceled.

If you use Sarah Fryer's number, that's $50 billion a year of revenue

which is off the table because of what happened in 25.

Now that has implications to everybody.

Look at the amount of taxes that that would actually raise for federal and local and state governments, all gone, vanished.