Works in Progress founder @bswud explains why Trump got the politics of data centers surprisingly right: you don't need to win the argument, you just need to get them built "In the US, we've seen state governments intervening, but ultimately county governments and city governments are gonna make a lot of the decisions here, and unincorporated land, and so on. That means there are so many ways for things to go." "I thought Donald Trump had a surprisingly good line on this on Twitter the other day in his video where he said, we're gonna make sure that they're not bothering people. They're on land which is currently not being used. They're gonna all have behind-the-meter power so that they don't make consumers pay extra. And they're gonna contribute property taxes. I thought that's the right kind of line, and it doesn't need to work in every place." "There's no need to win the argument here. Winning the argument is a nice bonus, but the actual thing that matters is building the data centers, and you can do that without winning the argument." @WorksInProgMag @stripe