Spencer Cox
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And that's the thing.
We're betting on all of these technologies.
And truly, as Chris mentioned, the United States did lead the world when it comes to nuclear technology.
And then we made a very bad decision.
We decided basically since 1975, the year I was born,
that we weren't going to bet on nuclear.
The rest of the world has moved ahead of us.
And that's a huge mistake right now as we are in an energy arms race.
You mentioned the data centers and AI arms race.
And we have to win.
We can't lose this one.
But we don't have to compromise on safety either.
We can do both of those things.
And the way you get better with this technology is to start building it.
That's what we haven't been doing over the last 50 years is actually doing the thing that we know we can do.
We have the best scientists.
We have the best innovators in the world, and Utah is betting on them, and the country needs that desperately right now.
Well, it definitely doesn't help.
And look, we are an all-of-the-above state.
We do have an immense amount of sunshine here, and we want to take advantage of solar for sure and solar with batteries.