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"I'm not anti-technology but I'm anti this. This is not progress. Stop ruining people's lives... for these data centers." Carl Higbie sounds off on tech companies building AI data centers in rural American towns, destroying residents' quality of life.

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I’m with the skeptics on these AI data centers. Not because I’m against data centers, but because Big Tech is running roughshod over local communities instead of working with them on the real trade-offs.

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Our residents tell me loud & clear: AI data centers are not welcome. They pollute our environment & raise our bills–all to make the rich richer. I introduced the No AI Data Centers on Federal Lands Act to stop this AI-addicted President from sacrificing our lands to Big Tech.

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Data centers are important for many reasons BUT consumers should NOT have to pay higher bills to facilitate the huge amounts of electricity they eat up. The richest companies on the planet are building these centers and they should bear the costs — not you.

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111,890 views • 4 months ago

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111,709 views • 2 months ago

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When I'm governor, I will take immediate action and support a conditional moratorium on data centers. Costs are too high, and Ohio families and businesses need protection from data centers driving up costs. Ohio is open for business, but we are not up for sale. If you do not meet these conditions, we do not want you in Ohio.

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16,508 views • 6 days ago

Today President Trump obtained a pledge from America’s leading tech companies that new data centers would not increase electricity prices for residential consumers. These companies (including Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI) signed the “Ratepayer Protection Pledge” under which they agree to cover the costs of all new power generation required for their data centers, ensuring such costs are not passed onto American households. This is a much better approach to affordability than Bernie Sanders’ total ban on new data centers, which would halt the construction boom currently driving wage growth and job growth for blue-collar workers. In fact, the Ratepayer Protection Pledge will lower electricity prices when AI companies pay for grid upgrades and sell their excess power back to the grid. Since the beginning of his second term, President Trump has championed the idea of letting our leading AI companies become power companies, and now this idea is becoming a reality thanks to his leadership and the commitments of these strong American companies. The right approach to data centers is not to stop progress altogether, but rather to protect residential rate payers from price increases, while making it easier to stand up new power generation.

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David Sacks

1,163,566 views • 5 months ago

These Big Tech billionaires want our water, they want our energy, and they want to steal our data. Governor Mills just vetoed a pause on data centers in Maine. When I'm Governor, this bullshit ends.

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145,520 views • 2 months ago

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49,315 views • 7 months ago

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AOC: These companies are not paying for their own energy infrastructure. People energy bills around the country are skyrocketing in order to pay for these A.I. data centers Working people are already living paycheck-to-paycheck in some states off of wages as low as $7.25 an hour. Another federal minimum wage that congress also refuses to raise. They simply cannot afford another increase to their bill. While the American people are suffering, big tech continues to demand more. More data centers, energy, more data collection, more American jobs replaced by A.I., all on the feet of the American people to pay.

AOC: These companies are not paying for their own energy infrastructure. People energy bills around the country are skyrocketing in order to pay for these A.I. data centers Working people are already living paycheck-to-paycheck in some states off of wages as low as $7.25 an hour. Another federal minimum wage that congress also refuses to raise. They simply cannot afford another increase to their bill. While the American people are suffering, big tech continues to demand more. More data centers, energy, more data collection, more American jobs replaced by A.I., all on the feet of the American people to pay.

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