Vice President JD Vance on data centers: “What we’ve done it’s called the rate payer protection pledge.
Vice President JD Vance on data centers: “What we’ve done it’s called the rate payer protection pledge. We’ve effectively required the data centers to say before they go into a community, they’re going to make sure they’re good community citizens. They’re going to be giving teachers bonuses rather than making it impossible for you three month old to sleep, and I think that basic principle has to apply.”
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Data centers can be good. They can also, as in your case, cause real problems. And I think there's some basic principles that we've tried to apply in the Trump administration. I think that we have to make sure that these things are good community members. And there are a couple of examples of this where I think it's worked very well for the local community. So there's an example in Louisiana of a data center where the local community, the local teachers are going to be getting $50 ,000 bonuses per teacher because of the revenue that's been generated by data centers, which I'm sure is going to make the school system a lot better, make the teachers a lot happier, and get them some of the money that they've earned. At the same time, that data center is going to feed electricity back into the grid. And your complaint is about noise. One of the biggest complaints I've heard with data centers, even from friends of mine who are typically pro -innovation, pro -technology, is a data center went up and my power bill went up by $300. And that's totally unacceptable. And what we've done, it's called the ratepayer protection pledge, is that we've effectively required the data centers to say before they go into community, they're going to make sure that they're good community citizens. They're going to be given teachers bonuses rather than make it impossible for your three -month -old to sleep. And I think that basic principle has to apply because there is a good that comes from data centers too.
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Vice President JD Vance on data centers: “What we’ve done it’s called the rate payer protection pledge. We’ve effectively required the data centers to say before they go into a community, they’re going to make sure they’re good community citizens. They’re going to be giving teachers bonuses rather than making it impossible for you three month old to sleep, and I think that basic principle has to apply.”
Data centers can be good. They can also, as in your case, cause real problems. And I think there's some basic principles that we've tried to apply in the Trump administration. I think that we have to make sure that these things are good community members. And there are a couple of examples of this where I think it's worked very well for the local community. So there's an example in Louisiana of a data center where the local community, the local teachers are going to be getting $50 ,000 bonuses per teacher because of the revenue that's been generated by data centers, which I'm sure is going to make the school system a lot better, make the teachers a lot happier, and get them some of the money that they've earned. At the same time, that data center is going to feed electricity back into the grid. And your complaint is about noise. One of the biggest complaints I've heard with data centers, even from friends of mine who are typically pro -innovation, pro -technology, is a data center went up and my power bill went up by $300. And that's totally unacceptable. And what we've done, it's called the ratepayer protection pledge, is that we've effectively required the data centers to say before they go into community, they're going to make sure that they're good community citizens. They're going to be given teachers bonuses rather than make it impossible for your three -month -old to sleep. And I think that basic principle has to apply because there is a good that comes from data centers too.
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