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Welcome back to a numbers game with Ryan Gerdesky.

Happy Monday.

There are just 15 days to the upcoming 2025 local elections.

If you haven't made a plan yet, make a plan, vote by mail, vote on election day or vote early in person. Just make sure your

voices are heard, early voting matters, local elections matter. So make a plan and get out

a vote. Before I go into some numbers, I want to take a moment and brag. Because I try very

hard, I work really hard to try to make my audience the most informed that

possibly can be more informed than the average people who listen to podcasts.

And I have very, very few talents in this life.

I was a great bra salesman to Victoria Seagrin.

I was 18 years old.

And I'm really good at predicting future political trends as they're about to happen,

but they haven't happened yet.

On September 8th, more than a month ago, I did a whole episode on how the number one issue

going to the elections in New Jersey and Virginia was the rising cost of electricity because

of data centers.

Data centers are responsible for two-thirds of the increasing electricity prices in New Jersey,

and they've added tens of millions of new homes worth of electricity in the Virginia grid.

There are then just a few days ago, Dave Weigel, who writes for Semaphore,

he wrote an article called, As electricity prices rise, both parties blame data centers.

There's a quote from the article.

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