Senator Ruben Gallego

Well, two things.

A necessary evil doesn't necessarily mean that you give them a blank check.

But the future of this economy, no matter where you are, is going to be driven by AI.

The question is, how do we tame it and how do we regulate it?

If I can find a way to do it at the federal level, we will do it.

Number two, there are some areas we shouldn't go because just because they have cheap electricity does not mean that we have cheap water, cheap air, or cheap neighborhoods, right?

Yeah.

So we need to give more control to the states and to the localities to regulate them.

There are places where they should go.

It does not necessarily mean it has to be in Arizona.

It does not mean it has to be in the cheapest land that these data centers can find.

So if I hear you correctly, it's that-

I guess.

So far, they haven't seen the benefit of it.

I mean, I could totally understand that.

What they see is their kids being glued to their phones and then AI lying to them, companies mining their data and selling them.

And so this is something that I think both policymakers, but also upon the AI industry, they need to show what the benefits are.

Because right now, there is no yet massive scale benefit to society when it comes to AI.

Right.

Well, number one, because I think that we'd fall severely behind.