David Sacks: Everything Kathy Hochul Said About Datacenters Was a False Accusation David Sacks: “These data centers become the scapegoat for all of the angst that people have about AI. Everything she's saying there is a false accusation on datacenters. So let's just go one by one.” POWER: So... she's saying that they eat up all of the power. Well, yeah, if you connect to the grid without producing more power and you force datacenters to compete with residential ratepayers, then yeah, you could drive up utility prices. However, if you do what Chamath said and let them build behind the meter, then they bring their own power. And that's what the president has advocated for since the beginning of his administration, is let the AI companies become power companies. So that is the way to solve the energy problem or the utility problem. LAND: Then, she's talking about eating up land. The reality is these datacenters are a model of land use efficiency. We have a ton of land in this country, obviously. NOISE POLLUTION: The supposed noise pollution, that's largely made up. That can be dealt with. You obviously don't want to put these things right next to a residential area, but create a little bit of distance, and it's fine. WATER CONSUMPTION: The whole water consumption thing is largely a hoax. Modern datacenters recirculate the water. AIR POLLUTION: One final thing just on the point that Hochul is making. She said it created a lot of pollution. Natural gas, which is how most of these data centers are powered, is one of the most clean burning sources of power that we have. “When you compare economic impact to all these different things, datacenters are honestly one of the best things we could be building as a nation.”show more

@DavidSacks I suspect it's simpler, that China is paying politicians and China-owned influencers to oppose data centers so that China can win the AI race. Our communists are excited about that outcome.

@DavidSacks Here’s the entire clip for those that missed it

It's a good time to remember that under Kathy Hochul's leadership, the great State of New York leads the nation in several categories: *Population loss *Income loss *Migrant spending *Healthcare spending per capita *Public welfare per capita *National guard members in public transit per capita *National guard members in state prisons per capita *Medicaid spending per capita *Education spending per capita *State-Local Tax Burden per Capita *Taxes Paid to Own State per Capita *Debt per Capita *Public transit fare evasion per capita *Congestion taxes and subsequent increases in cost of living per capita On top of this, violent crime in New York City finished 2025 at levels just below 20+ year highs.

In the old days, the 2000s, data centers were funding grids for small and medium sized towns and cities. Nobody was complaining then… It’s very clear that the data center ops aren’t organic or there would be logic attached. We now live in a world where politicians, in large states, don’t have the intellectual honesty or capacity to investigate real issues or develop any solutions. This is what happens when you elect a bunch of people that have never worked or built anything real in their lives.

@DavidSacks Yeah they are just these wonderful non invasive buildings and people are making this up...fuck this guy and his bullshit. If they are so great build it next to his house.

@DavidSacks Hochul's moratorium on hyperscale data centers @dampedspring @CharityHedge @NikLentz @Jimmyjude13

@DavidSacks No... Hochul was right about Power Consumption. Sacks says the Data Center can provide their own power. Bullshit. Grok says: Only about 4 projects (totaling ~2 GW of capacity) are operating with significant on-site/primary self-generation. Stop the crap @DavidSacks

@DavidSacks Hochul is a good little girl who follows the party programming to the letter.

@DavidSacks Letting AI companies become power companies isn't a new idea. Aluminum smelters and steel mills built their own generation for a century. The real fight is whether states will zone for it the way they used to zone for heavy industry.

@DavidSacks They just want everyone to be equally poor.

@DavidSacks It’s painful to try to point this stuff out I had a recent post that said simply. “You are using a data center to read this!” The amount of venomous backlash I got felt like the worst kind of cancel culture. The propaganda machine is in full spin, China is laughing at us.

@DavidSacks An average golf course uses more water than an AI data center does China is just spreading wise again once control over the AI world American needs to file AI data centers and I am willing to sell my home if they wanna buy it for AI data center

@DavidSacks rebrand incoming?

@DavidSacks $IREN GW’S ARE FROM RENEWABLE ENERGY WHICH IS CLEANER THAN NATURAL GAS ⛽️

@DavidSacks david, this isnt worth your time bc doesnt matter. even if 25 states ban data centers that leaves 25 states open for business. ny has gone full left wing, let them ban future tech and watch them suffer in that very same future.

The problem is David. Now that you are in a position of political power. You fight lies with lies. It makes for elegant semantics. But it has not helped you build consensus with the political movement that overthrew globalism and government corruption. Embrace the truth and watch your fortunes change.

@thejefflutz @DavidSacks Because Democrats continuously need something to be a victim of. Now it’s data centers.

@DavidSacks NY is not a low population state, not much land in NY. Water consumption use is not a hoax with evaporator coolers in the south. Homes using natural gas pollute. Data centers using natural gas pollute. It’s cleaner than coal, but it still produces CO₂, NOₓ, and leaks methane.

@DavidSacks simply ban access to data centers for communities who ban their construction. market forces will sort it out

@DavidSacks How anyone looks at someone that simply looks like her & believes anything she says is perplexing.

@DavidSacks I'm in support of data center overall. Love the AI use in life science especially. But being a resident living very close (few miles away) to a big data center still actively being built, we do experience some issues: 1. Abuse of eminent domain.

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Thats a great breakdown Sacks. Remember Hochul (who famously think black kids dont know what a computer is) also said upstate new yorkers lack the sophistication to negotiate with said data center companies. 😱 so honestly, according to her we can fix all the issues but her constituents are still retarded.

@DavidSacks My biggest concern is the noise. Are there any stats showing typical sound generation by frequency at set distances from the centers?

@DavidSacks Producing power behind the meter chips away at the monopoly on power distribution that the corrupt power-brokering mongers rely on to fleece the public for generations. Electrical power charges is a tax on the air you breathe.

@DavidSacks Who's pumping money into the narrative that all of these politicians are singing at the same time? It's an all out campaign to kill the data centers and it's not a coincidence. Someone is funding the protest.

@DavidSacks Unfortunately, David Sacks gets 1% of the attention that the idiot Hochul gets on tv.

This begs the question: Why have AI companies, influential podcasts, and the Trump Admin (ahem) sucked so badly at marketing the benefits of AI to the public? My guess is that they thought it wouldn't matter because, with the capture of the Trump admin, the public was of no consequence.

@DavidSackslm @DavidSacks Every market cycle creates opportunities. The question is: are you prepared when they arrive?

@DavidSacks You're right. There's a way to build these so they produce benefits. But that means data center agreements need to be open to the public, with beneficial owners disclosed, and with contracted protections against obvious abuses. That isn't the model one generally sees.

@DavidSacks They grasp at anything they think they can make as some political tool. The people see through this but with fraudulent elections it no longer means anything. We have to fix the election process or we lose the Country to what will become a civil conflict.

@DavidSacks David, @holonabove provides great graphics of complex systems for educational & countering biased political nonsense. Thought you might enjoy this one & who knows, maybe you can use it on all-in. Take a look at more of his graphics work, it's fire

@DavidSacks Bottom line: a group of gaslighting, uninformed politicians are blocking the progress our country needs, handing a competitive advantage to our global rivals.

@DavidSacks Now do Almond Farms.