Kirk Offel

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Data Center Revolution · Ep 147: Why Data Centers Will Rebuild the Middle Class with Greg Genung - Part 1 · 12 May 2026 podcast

You have companies that, since the beginning of time, have demonstrated that results for their shareholders tend to over... They trump the things that are sometimes best for the consumers or the teams that they have.

Yes.

And data centers haven't done a good job of controlling the message or the narrative ourselves, right?

And we all contribute to that.

And we're all working on trying to figure that out right now, right?

A lot of these data center conferences have a massive element of NIMBY to them where they're trying to address the not in my backyard.

Yeah, so NIMBY is a phrase for not in my backyard.

So maybe the strongest NIMBY crowd is in Northern Virginia today because that is...

Is what they call the sky for the cloud, right?

So majority of cloud, more cloud flows through Northern Virginia than anywhere else.

The largest company in the United States is headquartered in Northern Virginia.

We call it the federal government, right?

And they're the largest user of cloud.

So there's a big, I mean, there's multiple reasons why cloud is there, but-

If I was a neighbor and I had to wake up and listen to engines running and shit, I would be losing my mind too.

I would be on the side of the protesters.

I would be out here demanding that people talk to us more about what these things are doing.

Are they stealing our water?

Are they increasing our utility prices?

They don't create jobs is the number one thing everyone says.

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