A working-class midterm mandate

That I'm hopeful for what I think the promise of what AI can bring to things like healthcare and what I think AI can bring to things like education. But I also know that there needs to be guardrails. And what we have seen from Donald Trump and these folks is that there are no guardrails. Hands off. It's just like, let it do what it does. And I don't think that's the right answer. And I think that's remarkably dangerous. And I don't just believe that. I know other governors believe that because I serve as the chair of the National Governor Association. I know the tech executives themselves don't believe that. And I don't think that the answer is telling them, police yourself, guys, because that's going to get us to the right answer. And that's why in Maryland, we've actually put together guidelines as to how AI, AI, how we're going to be protected from AI. And that includes things like protecting our workforce. That includes things like protecting our pocketbooks. That concludes things like protecting our children. Right. So there have to be guardrails that are laid out, and we have been able to lay them out both in Maryland and also have announced a task force with the Net with the governors to be able to do it because we're not getting anything from Washington in D.C. yeah. I was reading the executive order you put out on data centers earlier this year and read in part, data centers and corporations are the ones writing the rules. And today that ends. But Maryland already has about 37 active data centers, according to some numbers. And I think part of the reason that people are upset and the folks we've talked to is they feel like those rules weren't in place proactively to protect them. I guess that was my question. Like, why are we seeing these sort of regulations and calls for transparency now, considering for a lot of folks, that data center reality is already here? Well, actually, those are very fair questions, because those data centers that you're talking about, most of those data centers are data centers that were online before I even became the governor. Okay. And when I became the governor, there's a couple things that I noticed as we were coming on board. One is the size and the scale of these data centers continue to grow. The second thing that happened was we had a federal administration that basically took away all the guardrails and told the data centers, y' all get to do what you need to do. And, and. And the state cannot stop you from doing it. And that's when I said, well, not in Maryland. Like, no, they don't get to write the rules in Maryland. So. So you've seen those. So you're saying that, like, the issue itself changed on the ground as the realities grew exponentially in terms of the effects on Marylanders? Oh, yeah. That's why we put together some of the most stringent guidelines in the country around it that said things like, they have to pay for all their own energy and all their own upgrades that are.