Joe Lonsdale Backs Targeted Data Center Policies
Investor Joe Lonsdale discusses zoning, power costs, and avoiding moral panics around AI infrastructure.
Joe Lonsdale stated that the president correctly addresses data center development by requiring them to pay for their power usage and supporting lower property taxes in suitable zoning areas. He advised against engaging with what he described as psy ops and moral panics around the topic, comparing it to previous unfounded concerns. This view comes from his public post on the matter.
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Joe Lonsdale Backs Targeted Data Center Policies
Investor Joe Lonsdale discusses zoning, power costs, and avoiding moral panics around AI infrastructure.
Joe Lonsdale stated that the president correctly addresses data center development by requiring them to pay for their power usage and supporting lower property taxes in suitable zoning areas. He advised against engaging with what he described as psy ops and moral panics around the topic, comparing it to previous unfounded concerns. This view comes from his public post on the matter.
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Joe Lonsdale@JTLonsdalePOTUS, to his credit, gets it. One of them: force the data centers to pay for their own power, to lower property taxes, etc, and to go in the right zoning areas. But don’t get caught up in the psy ops, just as others did in moral panics you know were ridiculous. It’s the same.
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