0:27
George Rauscher
7:30 - 7:57
“And it didn't seem like any question that I asked probably would give that opinion that they were ever going to do that. So it was going to stay no matter what. Does that mean they got a data center in mind? They kept saying no. They also said that there's no future for a data center here because of energy, because of, uh, the, uh, oh, you got a fiber optic line, few other things.”
- Speaker
- George Rauscher
- Timestamp
- 7:30 – 7:57
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- October 8, 2026
From the transcript
And it didn't seem like any question that I asked probably would give that opinion that they were ever going to do that. So it was going to stay no matter what. Does that mean they got a data center in mind? They kept saying no. They also said that there's no future for a data center here because of energy, because of, uh, the, uh, oh, you got a fiber optic line, few other things.
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