The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) · Saturday, September 19, 2026
Thomas Sohmers believes that the growing opposition to data centers is primarily a Chinese psyop, arguing that individual water usage by single in-and-out users can exceed that of large data centers. He expressed overall opposition to the current direction and pace of the frontiers of AI development.
“I would say I'm overall opposed to, you know, the pace of frontiers direction it's going in.”
“The scariest thing to me on on the political spectrum and the way all of this being treated is that it's now become a almost unifying issue on left and right about being anti-data centers.”
“I think that is almost entirely a Chinese siopp.”
“A single in and out uses, you know, more more water than, you know, the largest data centers in the United States.”