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David Sacks Responds to Kathy Hochul’s Moratorium on Data Centers “Everything she's saying is a false accusation on the data center … These data centers have become the scapegoat for all of the angst that people have about AI.”

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12,637 views • 1 month ago

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.Pablo Manríquez: There’s a small movement in the Senate to call for a moratorium on AI data centers. King: I think the moratorium is a little strong. I do think that data centers either ought to bring their own power with them or pay the incremental costs that they impose on the grid. I don’t think ratepayers should be subsidizing the power that they use. So that’s where I am.

.Pablo Manríquez: There’s a small movement in the Senate to call for a moratorium on AI data centers. King: I think the moratorium is a little strong. I do think that data centers either ought to bring their own power with them or pay the incremental costs that they impose on the grid. I don’t think ratepayers should be subsidizing the power that they use. So that’s where I am.

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I’m not saying they are building all these data centers to roll out the social credit scores. I’m just saying I don’t think we need all of these data centers to run ChatGPT, Grok, Claude etc. But if you did want social credit scores, you would need a lot of data centers🤔

I’m not saying they are building all these data centers to roll out the social credit scores. I’m just saying I don’t think we need all of these data centers to run ChatGPT, Grok, Claude etc. But if you did want social credit scores, you would need a lot of data centers🤔

Derrick Evans

84,515 views • 2 months ago