Decoder with Nilay Patel

The left and right agree on one thing: no data centers

You're seeing that on the right and the left. So for example, at the Abundance Conference last year, it was center-right to center-left-ish. And everybody was pro-nuclear, pro-AI. And we were hearing that, 'These things are here to stay. We have to figure out how to do it smartly.' At the same time, the populist left and the populist right are both skeptical of tech development, to put it lightly.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

The left and right agree on one thing: no data centers

It's not a left-right thing. It's a populous technocrat divide. You're seeing that on the right and the left. So for example, at the Abundance Conference last year, it was center-right to center-left-ish. And everybody was pro-nuclear, pro-AI. And we were hearing that, 'These things are here to stay. We have to figure out how to do it smartly.' At the same time, the populist left and the populist right are both skeptical of tech development, to put it lightly.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

The left and right agree on one thing: no data centers

It's not a left-right thing. It's a populous technocrat divide. You're seeing that on the right and the left. So for example, at the Abundance Conference last year, it was center-right to center-left-ish. And everybody was pro-nuclear, pro-AI. At the same time, the populist left and the populist right are both skeptical of tech development, to put it lightly.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Tariffs didn’t bring manufacturing jobs back to the US

The third one was around the destabilization of the middle class of the West. So if you have a rapid sort of outsourcing and a collapse of manufacturing, then the point of view was you're going to have a populist response. And I think we've seen that play out.