万斯称数据中心抵制源于电费上涨，主张配套核电建设

on Truth Social, Let Data reign, but there's a Fox News poll with 70% of respondents, um, voters saying that they do not want a data center in their area. So how do you bridge the disconnect there before the midterms in about 2 months. And also second part of the question, if Democrats do take control of Congress, then do we lose the AI race to China? Well, look, I think there's a very good chance that if the Democrats take control of Congress, we will lose the AI race to China, but we'll also lose a lot else.

You will see higher energy prices. The Democrats have promised that they will raise taxes on working Americans. The Democrats have promised that everything that we've done to protect American industry and rebuild American manufacturing. That stops as soon as the Democrats have real political power in this country. There's a lot that would go wrong if the Democrats take control of the House or the Senate or God forbid both, but let me just say, On the data center question, you asked how do you split the difference or how do you bridge the gap or I forget exactly how you phrased it, but look, man, the, the simple answer is the way that you bridge the gap is by following the President of the United States' lead.

What was the most important thing that we've done on data centers. He excuse me, came out and said we have to have ratepayer protection. If you're going to build a data center, you have to feed power back into the grid as opposed to taking power out. I'm a strong believer and I've seen the same polls that talking about that the political backlash over data centers, a very large chunk of it, not all of it, of course, but a very large chunk of it is that people associate data centers with my neighborhood is going to get worse, in particular, my power bills are going to go up.

The way to bridge that gap is for people to do what the President of the United States has enabled. He's made it easier to build a nuclear power plant or any other power plant next to a data center. He's made it easier for people to put power back into the grid as opposed to take It out and there's a broader and deeper issue, I think that's much bigger than data centers, and it's the United States. What the president is really trying to train, frankly, American industry to do is to build again.

We cannot be a country that says we're not going to build more power, we're not going to build more rockets, we're not going to do anything because the regulations of the cost of the risk are just too high. There's a chart that I'm obsessed with, and it looks at the amount of energy generated by the PRC. People's Republic of China, the amount of power generated by the United States of America. If you look at that chart.

In about I want to say 2005 is when China finally started producing the same amount of power as the United States of America. That was before that. They produced way less. They caught up to us and then they passed us, and today China produces 3 times as m