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Brett Guthrie
US House Energy and Commerce Committee (chairman, R-KY)
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Touting his committee's just-passed Ratepayer Protection Act (whisper garbles it as 'Rape Prayer Protection Act'), which directs federal resources to help states shield ratepayers @0:50. Calls New York's data-center moratorium 'just isn't helpful' @1:04 and frames the stakes as 'either our values are going to control it, or Chinese' values will @0:33.
“We're about six months ahead of China and AI. People predict. We have a year moratorium, let's say that's nationwide, and we get behind China, we'll never catch up”
Nasdaq since this was said: ▼ -0.4% · 25,837 → 25,742 · as of 2026-07-22
Says the community's school system 'will be the wealthiest school system per capita in the Commonwealth' @3:26 and 'I predict that other county officials in other states are going to be looking at that area' @3:32. Site is an old aluminum smelter taking about a gigawatt of power @4:38; property values in the community will 'almost double' @4:31. Caveat: 'if data centers don't pay its full bill, I would tell communities not to bring them in' @5:17.
“One in my district that's getting a $19 billion 20-year investment for anthropic is going to completely change economically that community.”
Nasdaq since this was said: ▼ -0.4% · 25,837 → 25,742 · as of 2026-07-22
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