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Ron DeSantis: “Big tech companies are building massive data centers that…”

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… Representative Griff Griffiths, who's actually doing very important piece of legislation to prevent in the state of Florida what we've seen happening in these others. They come in and these Big tech companies are building massive data centers that take up as much power as a city of half a million people. Well, guess what? Supply and demand. Do you think your electricity rates go up when that happens? Yes, it does. So this would, would block that. (02:24–02:34)

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Asserts that big tech data centers consume significant power, comparable to a city of 500,000 people.

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