Back to episode — Episode 2869 CWSA 06/15/25
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cry and worry and shake and all that other stuff. So most of the protests I think are propaganda and it's to make other people who are watching think there's more energy to get rid of Trump than there is. And have you noticed that the people who want to get rid of Trump, they only have vague ideas of what it is that their problem is. It's so vague. It's like, well, he's going to steal my democrac…
← Previous segment →g, there's new passive cooling technology for data centers. Now you might say to yourself, Scott, what could be less interesting than a new passive cooling technology for data centers? Well, one of the things I've been predicting is that we think we're going to run out of electricity for AI because AI will require like a thousand times more electricity than we reasonably might have anytime soon. But as I've been telling you, I'll bet you there will be developments that reduce the amount of electricity you need and this is one of them. Now it's not that close to being implemented, but it'll give you a sense of what's possible.
So it's a new fiber-based cooling technology that gives, well let me start back here. Apparently 40% of your electrical costs for a data center is cooling it. 40% is just keeping it at the right temperature. So if you could take that 40% and reduce it to 10%, you would save the equivalent of maybe 300 nuclear power plants. I'm making that up, but it would be a big difference. So don't be surprised if you see a bunch of breakthroughs that make it easier to run AI on more power sensitive equipment and you see ways to cool data centers that we never thought of before. So I think the need for the electricity will be falling faster than we build electricity. So that's my prediction.
Anyway, apparently also Newsmax is saying that ICE is largely going to pause its raids on farms and hotels and restaurants. And that's because Trump has agreed that in those industries you've got a lot of people who have just been working for years and years and they're additive to the economy and if you got rid of them all at once you'd be in real trouble. So I don't know how many of you agree with that. But I will tell you from the real world perspective, replacing them would be way harder than you think. You know, there's a reason that these industries are filled with undocumented workers. And it's because it's really hard to fill these jobs with American-born people. And again, if you ask me why, I would say I'm out. I'm out. I do not want to be in the conversation about why that is. It's just true.
If you know anybody who works in these industries, anybody who works in the farm, motel, or restaurant industry, and if they do the hiring so they're really close to it, ask them if they could staff their enterprise with American-born people if they had to. They couldn't. It wouldn't even be a case of well you'd have to train them. They wouldn't even walk in the door. Again, why? I don't know. I don't know why. And you know I've thought about it a long time but I just don't know why. It's just the truth.
So I think Trump will get a lot of pushback for th
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at because there's still a lot of people who say ship back everybody, no exceptions. And I understand the argument, but there is a real-world friction that Trump understands. And if you think that that part would be easy, it wouldn't be easy. You might still think it's worth doing, but it would be massively disruptive to those industries. But again, you might prefer that and that I would understan…
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