Robinson Meyer
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Jul
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Who knows why.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
And on top of that, it's not even like a manufacturing build-out or building out warehouses where you can then turn around and promise people that, like, well, yeah, we're going to be drawing 800 megawatts of power in your backyard.
everyone in your community is going to have a job here and it's going to be an engine of economic development in your region for the next 40 years.
We're saying, yeah, this thing is going to go in your backyard.
It's going to have the equivalent of a small natural gas power plant in it.
It's going to maybe be part of this larger economic trend that puts you out of a job and it's going to employ like maybe 20 people over the course of its lifetime.
And so it's just not a very charismatic form of economic development, I think, as part of it.
I think that's right.
Well, I mean, I think that certainly like
think global, act local has been true of many, many movements.
And I think that that is definitely something that is driving part of the backlash to them.
And I think there is a sense in all of this where if the American public believed that the last several computing revolutions had really improved their life and had really allowed them to have a deeper existence and had made them clearly happier than they were
10 or 15 years before it happened, then we probably wouldn't be seeing a backlash on the scale that we're seeing now.
I think it's almost, to some degree, when you see how politicians are thinking about Silicon Valley, the tech industry, it's almost like they're thinking about how to manage a resource curse.
Yeah.
Right?
That this is this huge, huge...
factor in the American economy, in American daily life, in American politics.
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