'This is going to be a big time flashpoint.'
Artificial Intelligence may be the wave of the future and the ultimate support for the U.S. stock market.
Yet for Gov. Ron DeSantis, Big Tech wants to create big problems for normal people.
And he promises that in Florida, AI companies won’t be allowed to take utility resources from normal people.
“I’m going to be very clear. I am not going to let a data center pass on the cost to you and have your electricity bills go up even more than they are. Electricity is skyrocketing throughout the United States of America, and part of it is because they use so much power. We don’t have enough grid capacity to be able to handle all of this stuff. So in Florida, you got to pay your own way,” DeSantis told the Police Benevolent Association on Saturday.
He took specific issue with a data center controlled by Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, which he said was “as big as Manhattan” and was among those that use as much power as cities with half a million people.
“We should not be making you pay more. We should not be saying you don’t have access to the amount of water that you need because they’re doing this stuff. And we’re seeing that across the country. You know, there’s some parts of the country, they’ll build one of these things in these rural areas and they limit when the residents can shower, because they don’t have enough water for all this stuff. So this is going to be a big time flashpoint,” DeSantis said. “I’m on the side of protecting the hardworking people of this state.”
This is just the latest DeSantis denunciation of unintended consequences of AI to a police group.
“People are going to use AI to scam, to cheat, to steal, to harm people. And I think we’re going to have to come to grips. I mean we’re going to be working on a policy for Florida, and it may require some legislation to be able to provide adequate protections for folks,” DeSantis said at the 2025 Florida Sheriffs Association Summer Conference in July.
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