# Data Centers Are Irrecoverable Economic Positions for States by Dave Blundin > "The most dangerous part of Bernie Sanders’ proposal is the data-center restriction. If your state does not build data centers while other states do, they are not coming back. Once the ground is broken, the chips are there, and the investment has been made, you cannot recover that position. Data centers will be massive economic drivers for the states that get ahead, and that is the part they are really going to regret." > **— Dave Blundin**, *MOONSHOTS Live, September 25, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Recording or publication:** [MOONSHOTS Live at 29:34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbk7hdOwJj4&t=1774s) — The poster preserves the complete source object used in the research dossier; square brackets or ellipses, when present, are visible editorial repairs inherited from the reconciled source record. - **Reconciled source dossier:** [[research/Jensen Pushes Back on Doomers Moonshots Live|Jensen Pushes Back on Doomers Moonshots Live]] — preserves transcript order, speaker attribution, editorial conventions, and the surrounding argument from which this Reminder was promoted. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Gigawatt Is the New Measure of War|The Gigawatt Is the New Measure of War]] - **Article:** [[articles/Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen|Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Dave Blundin|Dave Blundin]] - [[wiki/Data Center Investment|Data Center Investment]] - [[wiki/AI Superpower|AI Superpower]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "The most dangerous part of Bernie Sanders’ proposal is the data-center restriction. If your state does not build data centers while other states do, they are not coming back. Once the ground is broken, the chips are there, and the investment has been made, you cannot recover that position. Data centers will be massive economic drivers for the states that get ahead, and that is the part they are really going to regret." — Dave Blundin, MOONSHOTS Live, September 25, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-dave-blundin-data-centers-irrecoverable-economic-positions-states ```