AI DATA CENTERS
AI was at the top of the moderators’ minds at the first debate between candidates for California governor, streamed on CNN on Wednesday night.
The question posed to Xavier Becerra and Steve Hilton was specifically about whether they would try to pass any legislation to limit the growth of AI data centers should either one of them get into power next year.
Becerra, the Democrat, went first.
“Yeah, of course,” he said at the debate, which was closed to the press and held in downtown Burbank. “Or if all you're going to do is rob their energy and electricity and their water, that's not a good deal.”
Becerra claimed that he would work with communities to decide whether a data center benefits that community or not. But he wasn’t done.