Robinson Meyer
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205 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Jul
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Perhaps most troubling is that any world in which we decarbonize, we're going to be using far more electricity than we use for data centers today.
We're going to be using electricity to run our cars.
We're going to be using electricity to heat and cool our homes.
Ideally for everything.
Ideally for everything, exactly.
And that's all going to require far more electricity generation than we have today.
But we're struggling to meet the generation needs of data centers.
Well, we have to build so much more generation than we have right now just to meet the needs of our economy in a decarbonized world.
It's funny because having looked at the data, I am less convinced of the thickness of this trend.
I think, first of all, this trend so far has mostly not congealed into something on the scale of like an Occupy.
People are opposed to data centers in their communities.
They're beginning to talk to each other.
But I guess where I—here's the challenge that any data center, any widespread data center movement would have to meet, which is that once you get past local projects, there is not as much agreement about why people are opposed to these things.
kind of in an ideological or national way.
And the coalitions that spring up around projects, or at least the coalitions that we see in polling, when you look under the hood, what you see is like, okay, there's a lot of agreement about local electricity and water use.
There's less agreement about what we term in the data environmental impact.
What we see is that environmental impact of data centers, which kind of covers water and air conventional pollution, is like a top concern for Democrats and younger Americans and not a top concern for older Americans.
I think that's right.
Yeah.
And I don't see... I mean, what we do see is that most people, number one, are pessimistic about artificial intelligence and people who strongly oppose data centers are pessimistic about artificial intelligence.
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