Robert Bryce

And so we're seeing local communities across the country, whether it's in Utah or in New Jersey or you name it, local communities looking at these big projects.

And I've got no dog in this fight.

I use AI.

I use it regularly.

But I've never seen anything like this.

It's a combination of political factors and anger at big tech.

And it really is unprecedented.

I've thought about this quite a lot and I've written about it a lot.

I started covering it in depth now seven or eight months ago, really at the urging of my son, Jacob, who lives in Berlin.

And he said, Dad, you've been following the renewable rejections.

Let's track data center rejections.

But I think the simplest way to think about it on the surface is that local communities are looking at these projects, you know, huge buildings that take a lot of electricity.

The water use is controversial, may be overstated by the opponents, but local communities are looking at them and saying there's not enough benefit for us.

And that's very similar to what we've seen with solar and wind.

The other is that there's an anger in the US and I think around the world at big tech, the loss of privacy, the algorithms, the scale of the fortunes of the oligarchs like Bezos and Zuckerberg and the rest of them.

So I think people are seeing the way I would boil it down, Justin, is people can't fight big tech online.

They can't go to, you know, fight Google online, but they can fight them at the local zoning board.

And that's what they're doing.

Oh, well, they're definitely thinking about this.

I mean, there's no doubt about it.