Stephen Balaban
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first heard May 2025
last heard 31 Aug
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America.
And reindustrialized sweater for it.
Um, and so the I think the interesting facts about it are this.
One, from the jobs perspective, yeah, look, this is not gonna be the same level of job production as an automotive plant or a steel mill, but these are still met new jobs.
And so, you know, for example, I we've got a data center out in Kansas City and 300.
Folks worked on it during the construction period and 50 full-time jobs, many of these making over a hundred thousand dollars a year.
What are you wh I I I would I would ask to somebody who's against it, what are you gonna say when you sit down at a dinner table with these fifty families that this data center is supporting and say, Well, no, I don't think you should have that job because uh I I don't want an AI data center.
When when they're the same people who are using the data center to go on post on YouTube or to uh use um uh uh the AI services.
Yeah.
So so first of all, absolutely look, that's how our system works.
Let's just be clear here.
Right.
You know, this is not um there's not some sort of, you know, national, um, eminent domain that's being pulled, like we have with the construction of railways and other other other public goods.
Um this is decision making that is happening on the very, very local level.
And some places are not gonna want it.
And some places are gonna welcome business and some places are not gonna welcome business.
Some places are gonna welcome data centers and others are not gonna welcome data centers.
I think it's a perfectly reasonable thing.
I think that
Should should members of the community have a voice?
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