Joanna Stern

They are doing some of the work, but most of their work is telling AI what to do.

And so I think we're going to see a very similar thing in cybersecurity.

We've seen it in coding.

We've started to see it in customer service.

And so that's, I think, this new way of working that's going to hit most industries.

I think we're seeing this across the country and even here where I live in New Jersey, on a much more smaller scale of than what's happening in Wisconsin.

We saw in a town here, the voters sort of rising up and saying, we do not want a data center built in our backyards.

And the government saying, okay, we're going to fight this company that wants to put this up.

Now, it wasn't even a massive AI data center, but you see this happening.

You see this happening at the ground level.

I think this is a really interesting one because it's not...

only about not having this built, but also seeing the incentives that could go to voters and to the community.

So it's hopefully more of a realistic version of what might happen here.

I think just the publicity and the PR of what we've seen happening around data centers and the impact that what can happen to the environment, what can happen to the power grid.

We've seen lots of stories over this over the last two years, whether it's about the power supply and costs going up of the actual power grid.

whether it's about the water and the concerns about the water that these big chips and these big systems inside these data centers need to cool.

And then there can be costs, whether it be taxes or others, types of costs, which I just talked about, to the people that live in these areas.

And so it seems very fair that if you live in one of these areas, you're going to say, yeah, what are we doing about this?

I still think we're going to end up with ways that we're going to see data centers taking over certain parts of this country.

I think what we hear from both the companies and the government right now is that we need these big centers of compute to push along the U.S.