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Byron Donalds: “Data centers do have the ability to do power generation on…”

Featuring: Byron Donalds, Republican | U.S. House, Florida, District 19

BREAKING: Byron Donalds Campaigns For Governor At TPUSA Event At Florida Gulf Coast University

Published February 20, 2026 | Video Starts at 26:57

And we have to make sure that you're not damaging our environment. You're not and not damaging our water. Now let's talk about the reality of data centers. Right now under federal law, Data centers do have the ability to do power generation on site where they're actually not taking from the grid. the new designs and data centers and even the future designs that are coming online because the chips are becoming more efficient. (26:57–27:04)

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Asserts that data centers can generate their own power on-site without using the grid.

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“Those [Israeli] bonds that were purchased actually pay a higher rate, about 100 basis points more than U.S. treasuries.”
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“The Israeli bond portfolio, as I understand it, yields around five and a quarter.”
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“About 30 to 35% of building a new home in the United States is government permitting.”
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“We're bringing Bill and Hillary in next week to question them under oath.”
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“The way Florida has been able to progress from when I first got here to where it is right now has been with consistent common sense…”
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“In 2008, the funding worlds fiscal economy was blowing up at its core. It started here in the United States.”
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“The core reason why it started was because we had major delinquencies in residential, in a residential housing market, single family homes.”
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“Some stupid politician in the 90s, actually several of them thought it was a good idea to have no credit quality when it came to actually…”
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“What ended up happening was people were in homes that they couldn't afford.”
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“When they couldn't make the payments, you had too many people who were having to just give the homes back to the bank.”
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“It created a systemic crash in the financial markets.”
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“A lot of the issues that are frustrating Americans today, especially young Americans, the reason why they don't change is because of the…”
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“In the House of Representatives, we pass all kind of bills, we pass them all the time, we send it to the Senate. And in the Senate, it dies.”
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“It dies because the Senate can't clear their filibuster.”
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“The filibuster as we know it today was actually brought into being around 1950, 15, 1917.”
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“In 1975, they changed the filibuster...from the 67 vote threshold to a 60 vote threshold.”
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“If you're going to tackle housing, immigration, energy policy, budget policy, tax policy, today in Washington, you have to get 60 votes in…”
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“The immigration standards in America used to be before 1965, which we need.”
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“When I was in the legislature, we were funding Everglades restoration, Central Everglades restoration plans.”
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“The governor has been a true leader in this, making sure that [Everglades restoration] continues to get funded.”
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“We have about, depending on who you talk to, we probably have about five to seven years of work left to do [on Everglades restoration].”
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“We're probably going to have 5 to 7 million people come to Florida.”
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“Florida is going to continue to grow. You can't build a wall between us and Georgia. That's unconstitutional.”
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“Companies are coming here because we have a low tax state with common sense where we make sure that law enforcement does its job and does it…”
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“Part of that is wastewater treatment facilities. We gotta make sure those get expanded appropriately.”
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“I believe Florida should embrace small modular reactors, micro nuclear reactors.”
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“We don't want to have Mexico dumping produce and dumping other specialty products into America.”
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“We cannot rely on other countries to feed our people and we rely on other countries to manage our supply chains.”
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“The legislature is going through their ag bill right now.”
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“I support micro reactors and small modular nuclear reactors because you could actually deploy that on site with the data center.”
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“If you're going to build a data center, it has to be set back far enough from the next person's ranch or the next person's home.”
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“Data centers are going to be a function of American life going forward.”
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“The more you use technology, the more server space that you're going to need.”
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“I don't want to warehouse my data in China. I don't trust them.”
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“India has to deal with Russia. They share a border. I don't want my data there.”
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“I don't trust the Democrats in Virginia. I don't want my data there.”
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“Florida should lead [in technology and AI].”
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“I have no patience for this kind of stuff [anti-Semitism].”
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“If you're anti Semitic, you're going to go paint swastikas or somebody or somebody's business or somebody's car.”
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“Solar and wind are not green.”
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“The greenest form of power on the planet is nuclear.”
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“The second greenest is natural gas.”
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“If you artificially inflate the energy of the cost of energy, you artificially inflate the cost of everything else.”
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“U.S. treasuries don't yield that.”
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“These bonds in question are not just Florida bonds written. The bonds that everybody's talking about are in our pension fund.”
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“If you go through the process to say we are going to divest of these bonds and then get a lower rate of return, you've already breached your…”
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“Kamala Harris, her campaign strategy in 2024 was she wanted to provide $25,000 in down payment assistance.”
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“In Florida, it's probably about two years to put a shovel in the ground and build a single family home.”
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“The regulatory burden of procuring raw materials to build housing is crazy.”
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“Washington had the bright idea that they were going to increase the weatherization and efficiency standards for housing.”
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“The governor does not have control over the investment board.”
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“The investment board is appointed by the governor's office, but they don't have control over that.”
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“Are there anti semites? 100% there are.”
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“These ICE agents are having to wear masks to protect their families because of organized protesters by George Soros.”
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“The American people even today support, support deportations of illegal aliens.”
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“Tom Holman got the money last August to start this.”
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“If you are going to set up a logistical system to deport 5 million illegal aliens, let alone 10, it takes longer than six months.”
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“The administration is actually standing up the efforts necessary to do what President Trump promised the American people.”
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“I was at the potential, potential ICE facility in Orlando. It's about 150000 square feet of space.”
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“When the vote came to the floor, I voted for them [Epstein files] to be released.”
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“In the United States of America, we do not do justice by the mob or by social media or by commentary.”
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“The foundation of our country, the Fourth Amendment, the fifth Amendment in particular, the very basis of the constitutional republic, is to…”
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“We have two real enemies on the face of this planet, and that is the Chinese Communist Party, and that is the Muslim Brotherhood and radical…”
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“The way you destabilize America is you have their people destabilize it from inside.”
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“I 100% believe we have psyops going on in social media to decentralize America's internal political fabric.”
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“I'm on the Oversight Committee. We are doing some of that work right now.”
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