Nitasha Tiku

What are these data centers for?

You know, and explaining to consumers how technology works and why we need more energy production, why it's a good thing to have technological development and sort of expansion of access to these technologies.

Listen, there's going to be some like yimbies.

I'm not saying that.

But I think

that people will tolerate, you know, certain build-outs of technology.

I mean, we've seen this with like, even just like, I mean, Amazon warehouses provide a lot more sort of direct jobs.

I think if you made the case, I think that if these data centers, as you mentioned, sort of like the techs,

You know, taxing, giving sort of residents credits.

Like, I think if it was sort of more financially neutral for them and more environmentally neutral and they sort of understood the value of it and there wasn't the, again, the concerns around the sound, I don't think it would be as detrimental.

big of a deal.

A lot of these are also not directly next to people's homes.

You see people getting outraged about data centers in their states or states like Maine, where the residents came together to try to put this data center moratorium when no one's even building data centers in Maine.

So I think it's more of this emotional reaction right now.

I'm not saying that the people that will be directly living next to the data centers won't have something to say.

But I think most of the opposition right now is actually not even coming from people that are going to be directly living next to these things.

Yes.

Like, I mean, Elon Musk is an example of somebody that I would call an irresponsible actor in this space.

And, you know, I agree with you, Reid, that, like, hopefully we'll see some positive...

But hopefully we'll see some positive innovation.