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Talking Points: Quotations from people in the news
- October 1, 2026: Vol. 13, Number 9

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Talking Points: Quotations from people in the news

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Don Dimitrievich, a senior managing director at Nuveen, on the dramatic AI-driven rise in U.S. power demand: “If you look back to prior cycles, the only comparison, at least in the U.S. one could make, is going back to the 1970s with the advent of air conditioning, where we saw a step function change in energy demand growth. For the last several decades, power demand growth's basically been flat.”

 

Keller Clifton, CEO of Zip Line, which inked a deal with Uber to reach 1 million drone deliveries a day: “These kinds of deliveries are not just cost competitive with doing a delivery using a gas combustion vehicle, but they're way faster, they’re more reliable, they’re cleaner and quieter for the neighborhoods that we serve.”

 

Frank Luntz, political and communications consultant and pollster, on data centers: “What we have here is a failure to communicate. People who want to build dat

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