Ted Cruz
speaker
15,113 appearances
102 recordings
19 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 4d ago
Ted Cruz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 89 in all, peaking in Feb 2026 with 23.
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The cost of food, the cost of gasoline, the cost of insurance, the cost of electricity, everything's gone up.
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And and people are struggling to make ends meet.
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That th that is a real and fair concern.
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Uh and
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You know, I've spent a lot of time
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as as you know, I'm the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, which has jurisdiction over forty percent of the US economy, including all of technology, including all of AI.
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And so it's my job responsibility to be examining these issues and focused closely.
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And so I meet with lots of business leaders, uh business leaders across the board in the energy space, the technology space.
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And and one thing
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That I am urging anyone building a data center, and you're seeing more and more elected officials say this.
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If a data center comes in
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It needs to be a net negative user of power.
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In other words, it needs to produce more electricity through its own generation.
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than it consumes.
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So that the effect of the data center going online should be that people's power bills go down.
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You're seeing more and more.
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Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, has just put out a a a new order.
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Uh that mandates that, that y that you have to have minimal water consumption and that you cannot be burdening the grid, but instead you have to be producing power rather than taking power off.
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I think both of those are common sense steps.
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I think those should be mandated, those should be required.
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