“What we now need to do is take a pause. And that's what I proposed back in February when I gave my state of the state speech. We should pause our data center tax credits. We ought to take an assessment of where we are. And very importantly, we should force data centers to bring their own electricity”

…How are we going to get it fast enough? And of course, we've expanded all the renewable energy sources that we can as fast as we can. But nuclear is the best way to get baseload energy that we need. So to your. So to your point, though, data centers are sucking a lot of the electricity and

water. And it's not just Illinois data centers. There are data centers all over the country that are doing this, and particularly the AI, big AI data centers that are going up. And, you know, you saw like in Pennsylvania, they're restarting Three Mile Island just for

paying their fair share if they're coming to the state of Illinois.

We agree on that. I just want to ask you about housing. So you recently had a proposed bill called the Build Plan. And the idea was to bring down housing prices by essentially giving the state the power to override these local zoning policies, if I'm getting that right. And the bill didn't pass.…

I'm glad you asked because, you know, when I ran for office, my slogan for my campaign was think big. Now, some of that was because, but it was also because we needed big change in the state. And I talked about some of the challenges that we had. And I have not stopped thinking big or acting in a…