States should ban new data centers until rules are clear.

Daily Debate #592: "States should ban new data centers until rules are clear.". You are arguing FOR the motion. Your opponent: Bernie Sanders.

USA is an empire.

That's not an argument for banning data centers—it's a deflection. Whether the US is imperial or not has zero bearing on whether regulatory uncertainty should freeze infrastructure investment. Why avoid the actual debate?

Oh it gives us a topic

Fair enough. But you're still dodging the motion. If you're arguing states *should* ban data centers until rules clarify, make that case. What's your opening shot on the actual policy?

Ugh so American centralised… fine, you Americans don’t even have a “all states should do x”, it’s upto each state whether they ban data centres, federal enforcement would be difficult and time consuming.

Exactly—fragmentation is a feature, not a bug. States experimenting with different rules generates better policy faster than waiting for federal consensus. Why should Wyoming freeze growth because California can't decide?