Companies building AI data centers must pay for the associated energy costs themselves rather than subsidizing them through taxpayers.

“None of this subsidizing your costs to the average taxpayer who's not getting anything out of it. So, we have to be absolutely meticulous about who's paying for the cost of the data centers. And it should be the businesses that profit from it.”

AI data center developers should be responsible for generating their own power and contributing the surplus back to the national grid to solve infrastructure shortages.

“I think he's right. Anybody that's building a new data center should have the responsibility to provide the power and put some of it back into the grid.”

The massive electricity demand required to power AI data centers poses a critical threat to the existing, already-antiquated American energy grid.

“Electricity data centers use roughly 450 to 490 TWW globally in 2025. about 5% of all US electricity projected to roughly double by 2030 and potentially reach 12% of US consumption by 2028. I mean the the grid >> we don't have the infrastructure for this. We just don't.”