Vincent Oshana
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not allowing appropriate permits for new power in this country.
And we think nuclear power is Three Mile Island 1977 or something like that, whenever the disaster happened.
I think it was 77.
Check me on that.
And so we haven't been doing it.
Meanwhile, and we also see, oh, my gosh, the tsunami in Fukushima and all the people that got radiation poisoning in Japan when that power plant.
And then newer power plants have been built in crazy places like France, allowing people.
New fifth generation, I think it's fifth and sixth generation data.
They haven't been doing that in the U.S.
Meanwhile, our power consumption has been going up just with regular IT and EVs.
California, you can't even get an off-peak power plan for your house.
That's as inexpensive as it was 10 years ago.
10 years ago, you used to get cheap power in the evening.
Sun goes down, you can run the air conditioner at night, and it costs you less per hour of electricity or per kilowatt.
Not no more.
You have all the EVs.
How is this going to data centers?
Data centers are arriving on the scene when America's terrible energy policies under Obama and Biden have led to an electricity shortage in America because we don't have enough power plants.
And so now the data centers have thrown it over the top.
Power has gone up.