Matthew Tuerk

They can exist perhaps in downtowns.

I don't know what their energy needs are going to be.

I know that most mayors are concerned about data centers, not because they're worried about

Land use or a lack of jobs, but because utility bills are significantly rising at the same time that food bills are rising, gas bills are rising, housing is getting more expensive.

Now people are also seeing their utility bills rise.

So that's what's driving a lot of the concern for mayors, I think.

That was what I was hearing.

I'm an AI skeptic as a mayor.

I've been talked back.

I keep going back and forth on this.

But I was talking to somebody at Johns Hopkins who was like, hey,

shouldn't be so skeptical because it's going to open it might result in some in somewhat fewer human human react interactions but it's going to open the door for humans and city government specifically to participate more and more in helping people out and she was the one who mentioned like and it's also like all of the like the furor about data center might be misplaced like there is we are i i'm not necessarily a great believer in

technology figuring out a way to get us to save our bacon forever.

But it does seem like this is one that there's short-term concern about.

And I don't know what it really stems from, but whenever politicians are involved, you have to raise an eyebrow.

yeah i think there's probably a couple of yakko's controversies the the very local one is like you you got to pick it you got to choose between yakko's or pots apparently they eat pots hot dogs in bethlehem i guess we should say yakko's is a hot dog it's a hot dog okay yeah the folks in bethlehem like i love my neighbor but i would never eat a pot's dog um

Yakko is there's the one of the deals is like you have to know how to order it, right?

So the order is like you just get two dog.

I order two dogs with everything in a chocolate milk Some people get pierogies with it to the one of the cut there was a few years ago like getting Gary Iacocca whose family owned Yakko's talked about

how his Yaco's on Seventh Street, which is in Center City, Allentown, couldn't exist anymore because of the demographic changes that we've seen in Allentown.