Sam Liccardo

Look, there's a lot of fears right now around AI, around loss of jobs, around impacts on utility bills.

There are opportunities for us to move together.

For example, we know these hyperscalers need speed.

Let's give them federal permits and enable them to accelerate if they're keeping rate payers whole and protecting them from these utility at the risk of higher prices on their utility bills.

And

investing in batteries and the kinds of technology we know that will be sustainable, rather than simply pulling more natural gas and coal in.

For example, on jobs, there are things that we can do that are bipartisan that can incentivize companies to invest in community colleges and local state universities to upskill and reskill.

These are not necessarily partisan notions.

This is a time for us to be thinking more creatively across the aisle on these kinds of solutions.

We don't have the kind of administration now in office that is particularly bipartisan, and so it's really gonna have to come from ground up.

It's fair to say that this is incredibly complex and you can't simply declare amateur hour and start to announce edicts that are going to apply broadly across multiple industries where the impacts may be very different.

What I have been proposing, and we'll be coming out with legislation soon, is how, for example, on AI, we can essentially enable industry experts, academic experts, to be able to establish what those best practices are in an industry, allow industry to reach those best practices, rather than having some kind of monolithic edict come from Congress or the administration.

Government's not going to get it right.

We have to acknowledge that.

This is moving too fast.

We need to rely on the best thinking in the industry to establish what the best practices are and then mandate that if folks can reach those, they can have the benefits, for example, of preemption.

If they don't, then they're subjected to the edicts of 50 different states.

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