U.S. data centers require:
30x less water than U.S. golf courses.
100x less than California almonds.
200x less than U.S. home lawns.
2,500x less than U.S. crop irrigation.
Who is protesting almonds? Golf courses? Lawns? Nobody.
China does not feel threatened by your lawn.
David Sacks: Everything Kathy Hochul Said About Datacenters Was a False Accusation
@DavidSacks: “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.”
This is concerning. For the first time, a Chinese model Kimi K3 has taken #1 on the Frontend Code Arena and is scoring at or near the frontier on other benchmarks.
Meanwhile America is tying itself in knots: politicians and bureaucrats are banning new data centers, piling on state regulations, and pushing for new federal agencies to pre-approve frontier models.
This is how you lose the AI race. The rest of the world won’t play by our rules if we bog ourselves down. Permissionless innovation is how America won the internet and became the technological envy of the world. We can do it again with AI -- while addressing risks in a targeted way -- or we’ll watch our lead evaporate.
So let me get this straight. NBC and ABC will happily report:
The vaccine is safe and effective
Hunter’s laptop was Russian disinformation
Joe Biden was at the top of his game
Kamala Harris was nominated in a democratic process
BLM riots were mostly peaceful…
But they refuse to carry the President of the United State’s primetime speech about whether or not evidence exists of foreign election interference?
If you’re one of the few who still watch these two legacy outlets, please stop. They hate you.
Just a psa: Spencer Pratts election was stolen in front of the whole country brazenly. In your face type of stolen. And nothing was done about it.
This is why we need to pass the Save America Act. Every state needs voter integrity election laws.
Period.
Democratic Socialists unveil their new platform ahead of the 2026 midterms
It’s even crazier than just a few weeks ago
- Get rid of for-profit companies
- No one will have many bills because there won’t be for-profit companies
- You can take days off work because you won’t have many bills because they want to end for-profit companies
- Abolish ICE
- End ICE detentions
- End all deportations
- Abolish the Senate
- Abolish the Supreme Court
- More wealth taxes taxes on billionaires
- Expand the Congress that they’ll control
- New justice system that they’ll control
- They say Bernie Sanders is the only popular Senator because he’s a socialist
These people are communists. They want to destroy and bring down America. If they gain momentum, it’s over
People need to understand how dangerous this movement is and take it seriously
Stephen A. Smith erupts with the American spirit as he fires off this blistering message to the socialist wing of the Democrat Party:
"This ain't Denmark. This ain't Finland. This ain't Sweden. This is the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!"
"You roll over to these borders with the vision and the fantasy and the passion that, 'Yo, here I can achieve anything.'"
"That's what this is about in America!"
"We don't talk about that enough when it comes to the socialists because they're convincing folks that rather than individuals being a problem, rather than lobbyists being a problem, they're trying to convince you America's a problem..."
"...While their asses are over here profiting from the American system."
Imagine this: you get paid by our tax dollars and you don’t even show up to do your job when it involves our tax dollars being stolen.
Wtf are these people doing in office if they don’t even care about our money being stolen and wasted? They are simply working against us.
Zohran Mamdani said he’d freeze the rent…
NYC Rent just hit an all time high.
Zohran said he’d tax the rich…
The rich simply left (11 billion in tax revenue gone).
Zohran said the transportation would be free…
Subway fares just increased by 20% last week.
Imagine being the IDIOTS who voted for this.
🚨ELON: The reason we are seeing this extreme amount of hatred and violence is because we are actually succeeding in getting rid of corruption and waste. If we weren't succeeding in getting rid of corruption and waste they wouldn't care. Without Trump, this would be impossible.
Do you firmly support Elon on this?
@elonmusk
🚨ELON: The reason we are seeing this extreme amount of hatred and violence is because we are actually succeeding in getting rid of corruption and waste. If we weren't succeeding in getting rid of corruption and waste they wouldn't care. Without Trump, this would be impossible.
Do you firmly support Elon on this?
@elonmusk
This talking point from the Left is not only false, but it also paints women as incapable, which we all know is not the case.
Showing up to the polls to vote with an ID that proves you’re an American citizen – whether you’re married or not – is common sense. We need to pass the SAVE America Act.
I literally have no idea how @ScottJenningsKY stays this patient in dissecting these ass clowns as they spew complete unsubstantiated nonsense but man do I appreciate him and am proud that he is a fellow Kentuckian.
Ro Khanna is an embarrassment to The United States House of Representatives. Being a member of Congress does not give you immunity from the laws of a foreign country. He tweets 20+ times a day, but stayed silent for 3 days, why? Show us the 90 minutes of video evidence!
This is one of the most important moments ever aired on CNBC.
Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya says the media lied to millions of Americans about President Trump, and that after going back to the original source material, he realized he had been completely misled about Trump’s character.
PALIHAPITIYA: “The reality is that most of us were lied to by the media about President Trump.”
“And if you just go back to the source material, you should take away two things.”
“One, he didn’t say half the things he said, and two, why did these other people just fabricate what they wanted to say so that they could essentially assassinate his character?”
“I think that that second thing is completely unacceptable in America, and there’s still been no repercussions, really.”
“I took the time to learn about it. I admitted where…you know, the way that I met him was, I admitted on the pod, which, you know, has millions of viewers.”
“And I said, I got it totally wrong because I went and I watched Charlottesville.”
“And, you know, the first person to call me? President Trump.”
“And I got to know him and I put the phone down, I called my wife, and I said, we got it TOTALLY, totally wrong. We were lied to.”
“And then I got to know him and he is fantastic!”
@chamath