Data Center Freak-Out
Town Hall cites Research Fellow Paige Lambermont on data cen
“If our economy was allowed to develop at the speed of Bernie Sanders, we would be significantly worse off,” says Paige Lambermont of the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
“If we slow down, other countries are not going to. You’re going to be getting the authoritarian Chinese version of AI rather than the United States innovators’ version of AI.”
She downplays fears about rising electricity prices.
So far, “it’s raised prices nowhere,” adds Lambermont. “Prices in Virginia are rising more slowly than some other places, even though more data centers are in Northern Virginia than anywhere else.”
The Institute for Energy Research found “no statistically significant relationship between data center concentration and faster increases in electricity rates.”