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Abdul El-Sayed: “If you're going to build a data center anywhere in America…”

Featuring: Abdul El-Sayed, Podcast Host, America Dissected | National

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One-on-one with Abdul El-Sayed, who is running to be the Democratic nominee U.S. Senate

Published | Video Starts at 06:19

And we need an agency like the FDA for food and drugs, for AI to make sure that it's safe and we don't have existential risk. And then when it comes to data centers, we've pushed forward terms of engagement. If you're going to build a data center anywhere in America, it should be not touching our water resources at all. It should be done by union labor. We have to have a good community benefits agreement that's been negotiated in good faith. All the money should be put up front. (06:19–06:26)

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Proposes that data centers should not impact water resources.

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