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Glenn Youngkin: “When I came in as governor, I was shocked that forecasts…”

Featuring: Glenn Youngkin, Republican | Governor of Virginia

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

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You know, one of the, one of the, I think the silliest decisions that has been made, which was decommissioning baseload power, was rested on the complete failure to plan. When I came in as governor, I was shocked that forecasts that were being used for power demand had zero growth in power demand across the Commonwealth of Virginia. And yet we had, we had an effort that was going on to electrify everything. We had a moribund economy and we were starting to really grow it. (31:30–31:43)

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Asserts that power demand forecasts in Virginia showed zero growth, which was inaccurate.

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