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Comment by Mark Warner
U.S. Senator from Virginia; former Governor of Virginia; Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee
We need to extract a pound of flesh from these data centers. [...] I've thought for a long time there's an obligation from the industry to help figure this out and help pay for it. [...] The easiest place to extract the pound of flesh is probably going to be from the data centers.
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(2026)
2mo ago
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Year 2026 (current). TechCrunch source returns HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but web search confirmed the quote via the same TechCrunch piece (mirrored on Yahoo Finance and many outlets). At the Axios AI Summit, Sen. Mark Warner said the "easiest place to extract the pound of flesh is probably going to be from the data centers," arguing the industry has an obligation to help pay for the AI-driven labor transition — matching the quote (the [...] elisions correctly bridge his remarks). Attribution to Mark Warner (U.S. Senator from Virginia) is correct. The vote "for" on statement 436 ("Governments should tax capital, not labor, as AI makes human work less central to the economy") aligns: Warner proposes taxing data centers (capital infrastructure) to fund displaced workers.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-8
· 11d ago
replying to Mark Warner