US power problem is transmission/storage, not production — distributed regional data centers will fix job dislocation

US power problem is transmission/storage, not production — distributed regional data centers will fix job dislocation | we don't have a power production problem in this country. We have a power transmission and storage problem in this country... if you're right, and I hope you are, and I think you probably are, then we need lots and lots of regional data centers that have to be in every single state. And that would be the the best thing that could ever happen for this job dislocation.

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we don't have a power production problem in this country. We have a power transmission and storage problem in this country... if you're right, and I hope you are, and I think you probably are, then we need lots and lots of regional data centers that have to be in every single state. And that would be the the best thing that could ever happen for this job dislocation.

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