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Ron DeSantis: “Hyperscale data centers use as much power just to power the…”

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The data center issue is very interesting because we were talking about that nine months ago. I don't think a lot of people even knew what these were. Now people starting to understand these Hyperscale data centers use as much power just to power the data centers as a city of half a million people. And it doesn't produce jobs because it takes like 10 people to run a data center. And these tech companies are usually just bringing in foreign workers on H1B to do it. (06:28–06:37)

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