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Kevin Frazier testified that Congress needs a national vision to manage data center infrastructure and mitigate local impacts. He stressed vulnerable undersea cables are neglected and urged academics to prioritize teaching and public-oriented research.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Kevin Frazier testified that Congress needs a national vision to manage data center infrastructure and mitigate local impacts. He stressed vulnerable undersea cables are neglected and urged academics to prioritize teaching and public-oriented research.
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I'm John Batch. I'm John Batchel speaking to my colleague, Kevin Fraser, the AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the

0:28.5

University of Texas School of Law. His podcast is scaling laws. We turn to an article that

0:34.3

Kevin has published at Civitas that raises to me an explanation for the

0:41.0

ambition and the anxiety of the research scholars in the United States right now.

0:47.8

Headlines tell the story. For example, I have one from Science Magazine, most recently.

0:53.7

The ship is going down and we are powerless, says a respondent in a survey posted August 27th

1:00.1

that asked U.S. researchers who are training young scientists about the impact of grant terminations.

1:06.3

At the same time, we have headlines in Nature magazine.

1:09.4

This is the high-end peer-reviewed magazine

1:12.9

of science, all scientific inquiry for Europe. Just how bad will climate change get reads the

1:19.6

headline. This is an editorial. Predictions of climate change are uncertain. That's why now is not

1:24.4

the time to cut back basic climate research.

1:28.6

The word research keeps coming up, Kevin, and you're looking at a university environment.

1:33.7

It's been some decades since I've been on one, Kevin, so I call it by your experience.

1:38.3

It believes that researchers are right of passage for their credentials, these scholars and teachers.

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