Robinson Meyer
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Jul
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And we know it's driving a huge amount of the country's wealth.
We know it drives a huge amount of the country's competitiveness.
We know that it increasingly drives a larger and larger portion of ordinary people's wealth because it's come to dominate the stock market so much.
And yet it doesn't feel like we really know how to get off the car.
Where I want to be careful is
is that I think this set of sensations that we're describing, when you look at the data, they leap out for younger Americans.
They leap out for Democrats.
If you look at the full scale of people who are opposed to AI data centers, I do think older Americans...
You see more classic NIMBY threats, but there's no way this happens without a mass public feeling that the past 20 years or 25 years of computing innovations have somehow left us
with a shallower world, a less satisfying world, a world where local communities have less control over their own lives and where there's less savor.
I don't know in the American experience.
I think that's right.
I mean, I think in our polling, what we see is that there's national majorities.
among parties for a national data center moratorium, a state data center moratorium, and a local data center moratorium.
And yet it is not a mainstream policy.
The one thing I want to kind of say here is that a movement doesn't have to congeal as a movement to be good for a political party.
And I think we've already seen this movement be good for Democrats.
I mean, I think Democrats are already running against AI or against data centers or against a sense that under Donald Trump,
The AI industry and the tech industry has been allowed to shape our lives.
And I think what we've already seen is that when voters feel like there's some industry or sector of the economy that's out of control, they reach for Democrats.
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