All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Vice President JD Vance argued that the backlash against data centers is a consequence of the U.S. not building enough electricity generation capacity. He noted that China now generates three times as much electricity as the United States, a fundamental problem that needs to be addressed by increasing power generation.
“But but fundamentally, when I see the backlash to data centers, what I see is the, the, the necessary, the inevitable consequence of the United States not building enough power for the generation.”
“And I think that a lot of our problems, uh, are downstream of that fundamental problem, and we just have to build more power. We have to build more.”
“If you look at the amount of power generated by the PRC, the People's Republic of China, and compare it to the amount of power generated by the United States of America, in 2005, they crossed the line, meaning they started to generate just a little bit more power than we did. And since then, we have effectively flatlined, and the PRC now generates three times as much electricity as the United States of America does.”