The New Yorker Radio Hour · 2026-08-14 · 26 min · 4,313 words

Bernie Sanders Takes on Data Centers

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The New Yorker Radio Hour is a co-production of WNYC and the New Yorker. Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. Just about everybody in America seems to be up in arms about AI data centers. Everybody except for the diehard AI boosters. The tech moguls themselves

And of course. This guy. You have to convince your community how great these things. You can't fight it. And you're gonna have all that protection and we're giving you automatic protection, but

You're gonna make a tremendous amount of money, you're gonna reduce taxes. And you're gonna have something that if you don't have it Everybody else wants it. What's wrong with data centers? Even the simplest AI queries require quite a lot of computing power.

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