{"id":1032780,"date":"2026-09-02T11:12:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T05:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1032780"},"modified":"2026-09-02T11:12:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T05:42:04","slug":"top-tech-investor-gavin-baker-regrets-his-comments-on-data-centres-says-what-i-should-have-said-is-there-are-reasonable-concerns-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/02\/top-tech-investor-gavin-baker-regrets-his-comments-on-data-centres-says-what-i-should-have-said-is-there-are-reasonable-concerns-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Top tech investor Gavin Baker regrets his comments on data centres; says what I should have said is: There are reasonable concerns and &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top tech investor Gavin Baker has publicly expressed regret over his earlier remakes dismissing opposition to data centers. In a post last week, Baker had written that \u2018any politician opposed to data centers is unqualified to hold public office\u2019, calling them a godsend for blue-collar workers and small towns. However, now Baker struck a a different tone, saying he regretted the phrasing and acknowledged that there were \u201creasonable concerns\u201d about data centers around 18 months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Gavin Baker\u2019s original post on data centers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top tech investor Gavin Baker has publicly expressed regret over his earlier remakes dismissing opposition to data centers. In a post last week, Baker had written that \u2018any politician opposed to data centers is unqualified to hold public office\u2019, calling them a godsend for blue-collar workers and small towns. However, now Baker struck a a different tone, saying he regretted the phrasing and acknowledged that there were \u201creasonable concerns\u201d about data centers around 18 months ago. Gavin Baker\u2019s original post on data centers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032781,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032780\/revisions\/1032781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}