71% of Americans Oppose Data Centers — More Than Nuclear Plants

71% of Americans are against data centers, which is a higher percentage than are against a nuclear plant in their backyard, which I find amazing. It's just insane. I'd rent my backyard out to both. It's not big enough quite, but, you know, we'll make some room.

Maybe, Mez, just a quick question before the segue. I just want to pull a little bit on the historic rhyme between the Middle East being a major source of oil, but now also being a major source of solar power? The thought experiment I've done, I'd be curious to get your thoughts, is the reason the Middle East has so much oil is, my understanding is, like hundreds of millions of years ago, there used to be a warm ocean with lots of plankton and other small creatures that ultimately resulted in the oil. And now it's largely desert, but still it's It's pretty warm. Any thoughts on the historic rhyme between why somehow Middle East is, on the one hand, supplier of all this oil power for data centres and now potentially solar power?

Well, I think the Middle East has amazing solar resources, but it's not as lumpy as their fossil fuel resources and especially their oil resources.