Josh Shapiro: “You've got to make sure that our environment is protected.”

“Third, you gotta hire local and there has to be a community benefits agreement. If you're gonna place this there, you've gotta make sure the local community benefits from from it. And then fourth, and finally, You've got to make sure that our environment is protected. While these data centers use far less water than they did say a decade ago, when data centers were being developed largely in Northern Virginia and other areas across the country, they still require many of them do significant amount of water.” (29:03–29:07)

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