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Glenn Youngkin: “We do not have enough power. So much of that is the, the ill…”

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Glenn Youngkin on governing like a CEO and the AI power crisis

Published | Video Starts at 25:24

I mean, this is really big time stuff. Of course one of the challenges is we don't have no power. And as we build data centers, We do not have enough power. So much of that is the, the ill fated decision that was made to decommission baseload power around the country. It was, it was one of the dumbest decisions that has ever been made. Nuclear and other types of things, nuclear and nuclear and gas and, and a lot of coal plants that are, that need to be maintained, they're cleaner today. (25:24–25:36)

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Asserts that decommissioning baseload power has led to insufficient power supply.

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