That is why today I'll be signing the

nation's first-ever statewide moratorium

on hyperscale data centers.

>> Everything she's saying there is a false

accusation on the data centers. So,

let's just go one by one. So, she's

saying

>> Please.

>> that they eat up all of the power. Well,

yeah, I mean, look, if you connect to

the grid without producing more power

and you force data centers 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. Then she's talking

about eating up land. is these data

centers are a model of land use

efficiency. We have a ton of land in

this country, obviously. 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.

The whole water consumption thing is

largely a hoax.

>> Total hoax.

>> Modern data centers recirculate the

water. 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.

These data centers have become the

scapegoat for all of the angst that

people have about AI. When you compare

economic impact to all these different

things, data centers are like, honestly,

one of the best things we can be

building as a nation.