Libby Emmons

The mom-and-pop data centers.

That's the real problem.

In Northern Virginia, there's a lot of these sort of manufactured communities where it's like there's an anchor Whole Foods or a Wegmans, and then there's a lot of little restaurants, there's apartments, there's townhouses, and then like a little bit spread out, more single family homes.

And I was driving around there with my mom who hated it, right?

She was like, this is absolutely cookie cutter.

It's horrible.

Yeah.

Sure, but here's the thing, right?

So throughout the 90s and the early 2000s, we were hearing from civil engineers that we needed to build more walkable communities with town centers.

And nobody imagined that what it would look like is a prefab manufactured, you know, crap looking set of buildings and homes.

But that's what that is.

If you take like your sustainable vision and you put the money behind it that is the kind of money we have and not like millions of dollars, you know, billions of dollars to make it look like something that was organic and sprung up over hundreds of years, that's what we're gonna have.

And so if you run into your neighbor at the Wegmans, you definitely don't know that it's your neighbor.

Well, they'll be bought out eventually.

It's just a question of how much, you know, but the yeah, Trump was saying that one of the things he was recommending when data centers were being built, these big companies building their AI data centers was that they also build power plants.

And he said that the zoning and the regulations would be fast tracked and there'd be no issue to get the.

the power plants approved.

So I think there was one in Georgia that maybe was also building a power plant, but certainly the stuff that's happening in Maryland, like they're not building power plants.

I doubt this is going to be in Berkeley County.

I doubt there would be a power plant built with that.