Data Center Moratorium = Delaying the Cure for Cancer

About 40% of Americans will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. Someone you love is going to sit in a waiting room and hear words that change everything.
Right now, AI is rewriting that story.
At MD Anderson, AI is designing cancer drugs in 12 months that used to take 5 years.
At Johns Hopkins, AI is matching your specific tumor to the exact treatment most likely to save your life. Not guessing. Matching. With a precision no human being alive can replicate.
AI is screening millions of compounds against cancer targets in weeks. Work that took researchers entire lifetimes. AI is finding the molecules that work before lunch.
These are real drugs. Real clinical trials. Real people being saved right now.
Every single one of those AI models runs on a data center.
Bernie Sanders wants to ban data centers.
The AI that catches your mom's cancer at stage 1 instead of stage 4. The one that gives her 10 more years with her grandkids instead of 10 months of chemo that doesn't work.
That AI needs compute power. It needs a building full of servers. It needs to be built.
And an 84-year-old senator who has never built a business, never created a job, never written a line of code wants to make sure it doesn't get built in America.
His argument? Data centers use electricity and water.
So do hospitals. So do factories. So do schools. We have never once in the history of this country banned a building because it used electricity. We build more power. That's what serious countries do.
And the market is already doing it.
Google invested $20 billion to build its own clean energy for data centers.
Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic have agreed to pay for their own power and fund grid upgrades.
You don't need a moratorium.
You need one rule: build your own power or pay a premium rate. Two sentences. Done. Next.
But solving problems doesn't get you on TV. Banning things does.
America has 5,400 data centers. They have been running for 30 years.
They power your hospital. Your bank. Every 911 call. The phone in your hand.
Nobody panicked. Nobody formed a committee. Nobody needed a three-year environmental study for the first 5,400.
But now that they're curing diseases and powering the most important technology in human history, NOW we need to stop and study whether buildings use electricity?
It's peak stupidity. How stupid? Let me show you.
In 1865, Britain passed the Red Flag Act. It required every car to be preceded by a man walking on foot, waving a red flag, at 2 miles per hour.
The stagecoach industry lobbied for it. They were terrified of automobiles. The law lasted 31 years.
Germany built Mercedes. America built Ford. Britain built regulations.
The people who were afraid of the future got to write the rules. And an entire country paid for it for a century.
Now imagine it's 1942.
The Nazis are building the bomb.
Oppenheimer is assembling the greatest minds in history at Los Alamos.
And some senator stands up and says: "Moratorium. We need a three-year environmental study on uranium enrichment."
While the Nazis kept building.
That is what is happening.
China is pouring $125 billion into AI infrastructure. Alibaba alone committed $50 billion. The Saudis dropped $15 billion. The UAE is building the largest AI campus outside America.
Not one of them has a moratorium. Not one of them is forming a committee. Not one of them is going to wait for us.
And here's what nobody in Washington will say.
A moratorium doesn't stop a single data center from being built. Microsoft doesn't stop. Amazon doesn't stop. They just stop building here.
They take $690 billion in capital investment and build in Riyadh. In Singapore. In Abu Dhabi. Anywhere that wants the jobs, the tax revenue, the future.
The construction worker in Virginia who just landed his first $80K job? Gone. The 95,000 data center jobs supporting $7 billion in labor income in Virginia alone?
Exported.
The $27 billion in tax revenue funding your kid's school? Some other country's school now.
I watched this movie. It was called NAFTA. It was called "free trade." It was called "the jobs will come back." They didn't come back.
Nearly a million jobs displaced. Five million manufacturing jobs gone.
Towns died. Families fell apart.
A whole generation got hollowed out because politicians decided the economics worked better somewhere else.
This moratorium is NAFTA for the AI age. Except worse. Because we're not exporting factory jobs to Mexico. We're exporting the entire technological future of the country. We're exporting the cure.
The man who spent 40 years screaming about outsourcing just proposed the biggest outsourcing event of the 21st century.
Bernie Sanders isn't protecting the working class. He's the outsourcer now.
These are the same people who said the internet was a fad. Who said smartphones were dangerous. Who said Uber would fail. Who said telemedicine couldn't work.
Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
Every technological shift of the last 30 years. Wrong side of every one. Now they want veto power over the most important one.
Every generation has Luddites.
They smashed the looms. Britain industrialized anyway.
They said a mule was the only foolproof tractor ever built. Farmers mechanized anyway. Not once. Not ever.
Not a single time in history have the people who said "slow down" been right.
This generation's Luddites wear suits and hold Senate seats.
Build the data centers. Build the power plants. Build the cures.
Or get out of the way of the people who will.