Promo Episode 580 - A.I. Sore (w/ Dr. Margo Paez & Jae Holzman)
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🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Dr. Margo Paez, an expert on climate change modeling & water resources & fellow at the Bitcoin policy institute, joins with Jae Holzman, a journalist reporting on climate change for Heatmap news, for a surprising conversation about AI data centers and how they're being litigated across the political identity spectrum.
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| 0:00.0 | what I'm concerned about as a journalist is the confluence, right? And the next steps. Because when I |
| 0:05.8 | interview folks who are pushing at the local level, I've covered this for HeatMap. When you talk to |
| 0:11.5 | people at the local level, it's not as clear what comes after. Sometimes a town will ban data |
| 0:17.5 | centers. Sometimes a town will ban solar farms. And in both cases, you don't really |
| 0:23.0 | understand where that's headed until three months, six months a year down the road. And what I was |
| 0:29.8 | trying to get out with that question to you was just simply what comes next. The Republicans in the |
| 0:36.3 | government now, in the federal government, have outright |
| 0:38.7 | banned offshore wind. There's not really a plan for after. And from a policy perspective, |
| 0:43.6 | there is something a little liberal in that, right? But I'm also trying to better understand |
| 0:49.0 | like the long-term ideological project of just outright banning an entire industry without much of a plan |
| 0:57.1 | after. I'm a climate journalist. There's a lot of climate reasons why we should be very, |
| 1:01.0 | very concerned about the spread of data centers right now. But I'm interested in understanding and |
| 1:05.0 | unpacking what the long-term project for leftists is as much as for the right here. |
| 1:11.2 | Okay. I'm a little confused, Jaylor, because for one, we're talking about the climate |
| 1:15.7 | and the comparison of technology that's intended to minimize the creation of greenhouse gases |
| 1:24.4 | and lessen the climate crisis in the terms of clean energy like wind |
| 1:31.0 | energy and solar, being compared to the growth of data centers where the problem is they're |
| 1:37.5 | going to consume additional energy and have additional greenhouse gases, conflating those in saying |
| 1:43.1 | objection to those two forms of technology. I'm not conflating those. Communities across this country, conflating those and saying objection to those two forms of technology. I'm not |
| 1:45.5 | conflating those. Communities across this country are conflating those, including those in Utah, |
| 1:49.9 | where people concerned about the Kevin O'Leary data center being built in the north are banning |
| 1:54.4 | solar farms at the same time they're banning data centers. Right. I am not personally conflating |
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