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Please add to the SCBOR to build them in those communities where those who want them... here's your center. Start with Mar-a-Largo. And thank you Rep.Khanna, working for the people. 🌞💙

Thank you, Ro 🙏

This bill needs to go through, and become a Law!

2500 feet isn't enough distance. Datacenters shouldn't be allowed within 1au of Earth.

Data centers don’t need to be banned, just regulate how much water they can use, then they will be forced to recycle the water.

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Where is the Democrat’s Project 2025? Or are you still waiting for your constituents to write it.

Only on states that didn't vote for trump. This is what the red states voted for so let them live with it. #electionshaveconsequences

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YES!!!

Please Australia, look at this. If there’s one thing Oz doesn’t need, it’s developments that typically use from 1.1 million litres to 18.9 million litres of water *per day*.

I wish more of your colleagues would join with you on these democratic projects you are taking on. You are definitely a standout representative.

It’s the sensible approach that gives us the opportunity to go forward. We’re lying to ourselves if we think we don’t need these data centers. They’re coming anyway so at the very least a concrete bill that structures for our protection is what’s needed now It’s like he works for the people!

This will do shit all for red states. We don't need a data center bill of rights, we need strong, effective regulation on data centers, including power and water usage, and heat emissions. They need to pay infrastructure and other excess costs, it needs to protect our environment and wallets.

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When you do a search on any search engine end with -AI. That will keep the AI summary off your search results.

Data centers should be forced to source their power from solar and wind

Let me enlighten you then by telling you the entire internet runs off data centers scattered throughout the world. For example, there are at least 80 different Google Data Centers worldwide.

That's nice, but the Actual Bill of Rights seems to be meaningless in Congress.

Please force the data centers to use solar or wind energy to power themselves. Don’t allow them to get away with powering and cooling their centers on the cheap at our expense. We never asked for these centers!

Thanks, Rep. Khanna! I support your Data Center Bill of Rights!

People have the power, exercise it ✌️

Make them cogenerate, every 1 of them. I can't even imagine what they're doing 2property values; people will be locked into their homes forever, or sell at discount. Why don't u maybe propose creation of a true regulatory body to oversee AI, before they, ya know, accelerate us out of existence.

Most of these data centers are being thrown together in the hopes of being sold to the ever expanding future needs of AI for a quick buck. Owner transfer issues need to be included too.

Thats a pretty good shout, Rep. Khanna. Thank you. Mr. Speaker????

@rokhanna.bsky.social Why won’t the data centers put solar panels on top of them. That would solve the electrical issue and then wind power around them to increase their efficiency. Maybe I’m just naive to understand what is happening

That's a REALLY BAD framing since it sounds like rights for the data centers.

The data centers, the ballroom, the tariffs, the war, our healthcare, the promotion of AI, the attack on free speech, the attack on voting rights, the dismantling of agencies designed to protect us, the elevation of the oligarchy...all of this and so much more. The breaking point has been reached.

I can go for that! It's only fair citizens have a say if they want their water contaminated or their electric bills to skyrocket while destroying nature or using government domain rules to take away land from homeowners or businesses. NOVEMBER IS COMING! VOTE FOR YOUR LIVES!

This should have been done years ago. We all watched the Matrix and the Terminator, both based on the concepts today for these data centers.

YOU'RE JUST LICKING THEIR ASSES WITH THIS BANDAID NONSENSE. NOBODY IN THEIR RIGHT FUCKING MIND BELIEVES THEY WILL OBEY OR THAT THE BROKEN, CORRUPTED, PLUTOCRATIC CONGRESS & COURTS ARE GOING TO ENFORCE ANYTHING TO STOP THE PLAN TO CREATE AN AUTOMATED, UBIQUITOUS SURVEILLANCE STATE.

For new DCs math & ordinance could be used to control. A baseline exists for electric usage in a community. A $ per KWH rate. A DC could be limited/charged for the KWH $ rate increases, or % they exceed the baseline. Same could be done for water & even noise (decibels). Exceed limits & pay bigly...

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Yay for posturing before the midterms

You go Ro! Great move to put a stick in the spoke of the big data centre expansion crisis.

The water, land, electricity are one thing. The collection, control, manipulation of citizens’ information and resources - private and otherwise- is a whole other level. These data centers are entirely about access, control, and power. Fast track to fascist slavery.

Please hurry

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We need a national moratorium on data centers and AI legislation that keeps this garbage from enshittifying the internet & being used for mass surveillance.

You can hardly toss a stone in parts of Santa Clara CA without hitting a data center. It’s unclear it’s as big and as impactful an issue as it is elsewhere.

Good luck, the billionaires will be totally against you

Elected officials signing NDA's must be made a crime!!

Thank you! Secure support among your colleagues and get this passed...please!

Right. Can you pass it? Otherwise, it's just show-boating.

The notion that some entity move into a community, promise fantasy employment, suck up the bulk of its electrical resources and raise everyone else’s power bills as “progress” seems to have generated some questions somehow

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Please. Saying this as someone who lives in a village with a hyperscale data center proposal less than half a mile away.

There should be no data centers.

Yay! I'm all for this. You go, Ro!!👍👏💙

States and the federal government have an obligation to protect this countries natural resources and its people.

Strong contender for POTUS 2028

@rokhanna.bsky.social, consider the challenge in this 2-pt 🧵as the bill is debated and potentially revised. (Hope it helps) bsky.app/profile/mari...

Thank you. Meanwhile, my Senators are literally rolling out the red carpet for these monstrosities.

Good idea, but who has to ok it to get it through?

Water, electricity and gas for citizens before corporate data center expansion! Yes! Corporations must consider their rights co-equal to other citizens since the old gilded era Supremes and Romney call them “citizens” with rights. 🇺🇸🕊️

The data center push is an example of “Shoot first and ask questions later” by the tech industry. I have heard about China building them without the need to use community water resources. Are we too proud to ask how? Human needs should not be considered optional expenses for companies to exploit.

About time!!

Please get back to the Epstein files, please.

Do you actually believe Republicans would vote for your will? Be honest.

100% agree, thank you! And though it might mean that my brain is broken from being online, I do keep expecting you to back up and disappear in the hedge.

Data centers are only a symptom of a bigger problem. Cities and townships routinely move things into our neighborhoods against our wishes that are not so loudly protested as data centers are. Stop the big interest money from buying our neighborhoods out from under us

Good play, maybe a little late, but solid nonetheless

Thank you Mr Khanna for all of your work for the people!

Hmmm...why are we giving Data Center's rights? Another example of poor framing/messaging that conveys the opposite. If only we could take a lesson from the Repubs on this...like their Orwellian "Clean Skies Act" or the "One Big Beautiful Act"

It's going to get pretty f*ing interesting down there when they get halfway done with those big projects and start to realize that THERE ISN'T ENOUGH WATER to run them. And I don't mean "public outcry because their water bills go up". I mean empty reservoirs and low tap pressure.

Thank you

Million thank you for protecting & defending Mother Nature from human stupidity. 🤬🤷🇨🇦

Require data center to use only renewable power sources, they’ll kick-start our renewable industries

So these are the States Rights we should be fighting for, guys.

Just ban them outright. Easy peasy!

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Data centers should not exist, period. Don't try to play both sides on this shit, data centers are a direct attack on life and the economy. We need to remove them and outlaw them, everywhere.

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This is one of the most sensible pieces of legislation I've seen come down the pipe in a long time.

How about if we reject the 83 centers in silicon valley🤷‍♀️

That is a MUST, imo… There is a great invention called “solar panels” - they can generate electricity… who knew❓❓❓🥵

i third both them!

I know it's popular to act like the only purpose of these facilities is for stuff like Flock, but it's simply not true. As for rooftop solar, that's basically a rounding error compared to the actual amount needed. Solar panel efficiency just isn't going to improve enough to change that either

there are practical limits to efficiency, though. In the US, the sun provides ~0.24W/m^2 at 100% efficiency. Meaning a single 20MW datacenter would require 20 acres of panels (or 100 acres at 20% efficiency).

That's not really happening. There's a quantum physics limit around 33 % efficiency for single-layer cells. Current monocrystalline silicon panels are 23ish % efficient. The trend is to push down panel cost as low as it will go so that you can simply bury the problem under thousands of panels.

That's great. Doesn't really change what I said though

0 would be even better.

Excellent

Look for loopholes

Hey, what do you know: all this shit is exactly what Trump offered on his campaign. One does know a stupid populist on sight.

Please keep up on the Epstein fight.

Stop with shit that should have been done three years ago. The people have already been rejecting these centers without you and your party’s out touch policies.

Fantastic, no damn data centers it only benefits the rich and they are sucking up all our water and our electricity rates we don’t want them

Build all data centers in wealthy neighborhoods! Let’s see how many get built.

You know you represent Silicon Valley right?

💯 agree. Why the rush? To be the top dog, that's why. A patient, thoughtful approach is needed. Our communities deserve healthy alternatives.

LFGGGG Ro!

You're on TV too much.

This Bill needs backing, this is another reason why the mid/terms are so important.

It’s an authoritarian plan of theirs and we need to be organized when their coup ramps up.

Here's a thought for you, why don't you introduce the first ever "Corruption is a Crime in Congress" bill and start holding people accountable? Communities deserve the right to have open, honest, and truthful constituents. We don't want grifters and crooks.

Its bad enough Oregon is pushing for them. Even mailing data center propaganda out to us. Saying how they will "pitch in". What they always fail to tell us is it doesn't matter if they pay 100% their share (&should), they will still use up all the water & electricity & force us to ration.BillsRaise📈

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Never mind how much water and electricity they consume. Has anybody said what these proposed data centers are going to be doing?

Data centers employ highly-skilled people. Golf courses employ low-skill people, many of them students working low-skill part-time jobs while acquiring advanced skills. Unscrupulous politicians appeal to simple-minded, easily-manipulated voters who are terrified of learning anything new.

I really do love this decent Man.

Thank you!

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Amazing that communities that have rejected data centers now have to contend with an administration that seeks to override their decisions. It's time for ANTIFA!!

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but you, and your wife especially invest in tech heavily!

Is there even any room left on this bandwagon?

We need all candidates to: 👉 Reject all funding from the AI Super PAC Leading the Future. 👉 Publicly condemn their attempts to undermine common-sense laws that protect Americans from AI. bleedingthefuture.org

Tucson & Marana, AZ are fighting own City Council & County Supervisors to prevent AI Data centers being built in city limits and county. Data centers use MILLIONS of gal. of water PER DAY. Southern AZ cities are desert oasis' and Data centers will rapidly deplete our irreplaceable aquifers. Insane!

Thank you!