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JC Jason Calacanis Jason Calacanis Angel investor, internet entrepreneur and podcaster focused on startups and venture capital.

“Pay your taxes, create jobs, donate money to the local community. The end. If you do all those things, there will be a competition for these data centers. … Just increase your offer to each community. Give them more toys and you just be a good neighbor. What does it mean to be a good neighbor? Noise, pollution, smells, and energy. Just don't F around when you put in a data center.”

This Week in Startups · Startups & Venture · November 2026

“Pay your taxes, create jobs, donate money to the local community. The end. If you do all those things, there will be a competition for these data centers. … Just increase your offer to each community. Give them more toys and you just be a good neighbor. What does it mean to be a good neighbor? Noise, pollution, smells, and energy. Just don't F around when you put in a data center.” — Jason Calacanis, This Week in Startups

Context

The hosts were discussing a likely compromise between the data center industry and officials after the midterms. Calacanis lays out the simple middle ground he thinks both sides can reach.

Transcript

This Week in Startups Around 07:45 into the episode
Lon Harris

…permitted data centers going forward for delivery in 2028 and 29 will pay taxes, commit to no increase in power prices for consumers, won't impact water availability, and will be constructed with union labor and give Texans a seat at the table. He says all of this sounds very reasonable to him.

Speaker 4

…center, anti-growth. They're decelerists. And I think that needs to be worked out right quick. That's why you see the governor coming out and saying what she's saying. And there's a really easy middle ground here. Guarantee water, electricity are sustainable, clean, that there's no pollution.

Jason Calacanis

Pay your taxes, create jobs, donate money to the local community. The end. If you do all those things, there will be a competition for these data centers. Increase your offer like Facebook and Meta have been doing. Just increase your offer to each community. Give them more toys. You give them more toys and you just be a good neighbor. What does it mean to be a good neighbor? Noise, pollution, smells, and energy. Just don't F around when you put in a data center. So, I think today's chaos in the markets is overblown. I think it's a incredible non-investment advice. I think it's a generational time to buy. So, if you have a little cash around lawn, this would be a great time to nibble on an NVIDIA, on an Amazon, Amazon, an Uber, a Tesla. Yeah, I picked up SpaceX.

Lon Harris

I picked up some discounts today. Oh,

Jason Calacanis

look at you. Yeah,

Lon Harris

that's the plan. That's the only way I've ever found to make any money in stocks. The like Warren Buffett, like, think about the future. Like, I never made any of that work, but wait until companies you think are fundamentally strong have a big dip. Yeah. Buy the dip. That's it. That'll work. It's

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