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That is why today I'll be signing the nation's first-ever statewide moratorium on hyperscale data centers.
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>> Everything she's saying there is a false accusation on the data centers. So, let's just go one by one. So, she's
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saying >> Please. >> that they eat up all of the power. Well, yeah, I mean, look, if you connect to
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the grid without producing more power and you force data centers to compete with residential ratepayers, then yeah,
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you could drive up utility prices. However, if you do what Chamath said and let them build behind the meter, then
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they bring their own power and that's what the president has advocated for since the beginning of his
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administration is let the AI companies become power companies. So, that is the way to solve the energy problem or the
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utility problem. Then she's talking about eating up land. is these data centers are a model of land use
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efficiency. We have a ton of land in this country, obviously. The supposed noise pollution, that's largely made up.
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That can be dealt with. You obviously don't want to put these things right next to a residential area, but create a
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little bit of distance and it's fine. The whole water consumption thing is largely a hoax.
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>> Total hoax. >> Modern data centers recirculate the water. One final thing just on the point
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that Hochul is making, she said it created a lot of pollution. Natural gas, which is how most of these data centers
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are powered, is one of the most clean burning sources of power that we have. These data centers have become the
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scapegoat for all of the angst that people have about AI. When you compare economic impact to all these different
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things, data centers are like, honestly, one of the best things we can be building as a nation.