WEBVTT 00:00.560 --> 00:05.900 As you and I both know, the MAHA movement, before it was even coined MAHA, it took decades 00:05.900 --> 00:12.280 and it incorporated a lot of different viewpoints from informed consent, medical freedom, vaccinations, 00:12.760 --> 00:17.640 pesticides, fluoride, and that movement really culminated over the last couple of years 00:17.640 --> 00:20.980 and we're seeing kind of what's been happening with that. 00:21.340 --> 00:22.540 But there's another movement happening. 00:22.920 --> 00:27.860 It's coming out of nowhere and it has a MAHA feel to it from my point of view 00:27.860 --> 00:29.840 and it's the push back against data centers. 00:30.340 --> 00:34.840 And it's going on all over America right now and why America is the hotbed? 00:35.180 --> 00:37.560 Well, it can be explained in this graph right here. 00:37.700 --> 00:41.480 It's because America throughout the entire world has the most data centers. 00:41.740 --> 00:46.840 By far, you're talking over 4,000, not even close in second and third places, 00:47.040 --> 00:51.300 UK and Germany, little over 500, and then China, who we're being told we're fighting against 00:51.300 --> 00:55.520 to have supremacy for AI, they're not even anywhere close to this. 00:55.520 --> 00:58.280 There are 300, 400 something data centers. 00:58.880 --> 01:02.860 So I don't know where that argument's coming from that we're fighting China for supremacy. 01:02.940 --> 01:04.960 It seems like from that chart, we already have it. 01:05.260 --> 01:09.560 But in the real counties and cities across America, something is happening right now 01:09.560 --> 01:11.400 and it's happened very quickly. 01:11.540 --> 01:12.720 It's been boiling under the surface. 01:13.120 --> 01:16.760 Here's a headline here out of The Guardian titled Irresponsible. 01:17.000 --> 01:21.480 Backlash as Utah approves data center twice the size of Manhattan goes on to say this. 01:21.680 --> 01:24.740 A plan to create one of the largest data centers, a gargantuan project 01:24.740 --> 01:28.140 expanding an area more than twice the size of Manhattan has provoked a furious public 01:28.140 --> 01:32.820 backlash in Utah amid concerns over a vast energy use and impact upon the state's 01:32.820 --> 01:33.900 stress water supply. 01:34.260 --> 01:38.900 The facility will require 9 gigawatts of power, which is more than the entire state 01:38.900 --> 01:42.860 of Utah currently consumes and suck up a significant amount of water in the area 01:42.860 --> 01:46.440 that has been hit by severe drought in recent years. 01:47.080 --> 01:52.560 Now, when people see those numbers like 9 gigawatts, I think you and I talked 01:52.560 --> 01:55.860 about this, you're saying what kind of time frame is that? 01:56.420 --> 01:58.940 It's basically like, from my understanding, it's like a light bulb. 01:59.140 --> 02:02.540 It requires 100 watt light bulb. 02:02.760 --> 02:05.360 It takes 100 watts to just run, to operate. 02:05.620 --> 02:10.460 And when this data center particularly gets going and it's full capacity, 02:10.640 --> 02:11.980 it's 9 gigawatts to turn it on. 02:12.100 --> 02:13.020 It just uses it. 02:13.640 --> 02:19.280 And then the water consumption is really for the majority of that is for the gas 02:19.280 --> 02:22.960 plants, the natural gas plants that are going to be firing this thing up and using 02:22.960 --> 02:28.460 this, the cooling systems anywhere from about 2 to 16 billion gallons of water per year 02:28.460 --> 02:30.640 are a couple of independent analyses. 02:31.260 --> 02:35.740 So it's more of the energy because the actual data centers are typically closed 02:35.740 --> 02:36.500 loop water systems. 02:36.680 --> 02:41.120 They still use a ton of water, but it's the consumption of the energy for these, 02:41.280 --> 02:44.900 the gas, the natural gas powered oil systems for this. 02:44.900 --> 02:47.020 But we have Kevin O'Leary. 02:47.320 --> 02:49.260 He is backing this, O'Leary Digital. 02:49.600 --> 02:54.740 And he's funding this project called The Stratus Project in Box Elder County, Utah. 02:55.140 --> 02:59.900 He was recently sitting down with Tucker Carlson and he had this to say, take a listen. 03:00.800 --> 03:05.340 Even the people in Box Elder, the majority of them want me to hold my shovel and start digging. 03:05.720 --> 03:08.260 And that's basically the debate we're having. 03:08.700 --> 03:10.140 How do you know that? 03:11.000 --> 03:14.160 Because they voted for it unanimously before the Chinese guys. 03:14.160 --> 03:15.380 There was a referendum? 03:16.460 --> 03:18.380 Like all this crap that's being spewed out. 03:18.380 --> 03:19.060 Wait, wait, it's all done. 03:19.800 --> 03:21.800 Yeah, and I may have fallen for some of it. 03:21.800 --> 03:22.460 So you correct me. 03:22.800 --> 03:27.820 There was a referendum among citizens or did some like county board vote? 03:28.120 --> 03:34.360 We actually went through the whole process that you have to do by their laws and were 03:34.360 --> 03:37.180 granted three to zero. 03:37.640 --> 03:40.400 The commissioners of the county said, we want to be part of this. 03:40.400 --> 03:41.500 So three people voted. 03:41.700 --> 03:42.880 The people of the county. 03:42.880 --> 03:43.820 The elected officials. 03:44.420 --> 03:45.420 That's how you do it. 03:45.460 --> 03:53.680 How hard is it for Kevin O'Leary and Amazon and Microsoft and Google to subvert three 03:53.680 --> 03:55.780 county commissioners in rural Utah? 03:55.860 --> 03:56.440 Tucker, they voted. 03:57.700 --> 03:58.980 They asked us to come. 03:59.580 --> 04:01.300 They asked us to bring $15 billion. 04:02.260 --> 04:06.120 They asked and they voted and it was a three to zero vote. 04:06.740 --> 04:07.740 That's how it happened. 04:08.300 --> 04:09.500 There's no other way to do it. 04:09.500 --> 04:13.180 And Kevin O'Leary got three county commissioners in rural Utah on their side. 04:13.560 --> 04:14.220 Good work. 04:14.540 --> 04:17.140 But can I just ask you really quick, like why don't you have a referendum? 04:17.360 --> 04:20.440 Why don't you let all citizens, all taxpayers, the ones who are paying for your project, 04:20.720 --> 04:23.320 why don't they get to pay a vote? 04:25.540 --> 04:31.380 Well, listen, the whole idea of expediting it was so the project didn't go to Jacksonville, 04:31.400 --> 04:31.860 Mississippi. 04:32.100 --> 04:33.020 That's the competition. 04:33.860 --> 04:38.140 And so the government there said, okay, look, we've done because we haven't lost. 04:38.140 --> 04:42.160 We haven't lost our, we have to go through EPA. 04:42.360 --> 04:43.720 We have to go through air and quality. 04:43.880 --> 04:45.440 We have to go through the water permitting. 04:45.560 --> 04:47.500 We have to go through the land construction permitting. 04:47.820 --> 04:48.760 Nothing's been lost. 04:50.520 --> 04:54.740 There's no circumventing the process. 04:56.300 --> 04:58.420 Once again, it's a really amazing debate. 04:58.640 --> 05:03.800 I watched some of that and I think Tucker Carlson's bringing up really good points. 05:03.800 --> 05:09.660 And on the other side, you have this keeping up the Joneses between America and China 05:11.300 --> 05:12.420 and for what? 05:12.620 --> 05:13.900 I think it's the big question. 05:14.240 --> 05:15.020 For what gain? 05:15.240 --> 05:15.860 What does this do? 05:16.060 --> 05:16.620 Where are we going? 05:17.440 --> 05:18.220 Do we want this? 05:18.420 --> 05:25.060 In those funding, these data centers, they're looking for ways around what Tucker's talking 05:25.060 --> 05:25.700 about there. 05:25.900 --> 05:30.060 Here's a headline, AI data centers are targeting unincorporated rural areas to 05:30.060 --> 05:32.060 bypass growing bans and regulations. 05:32.060 --> 05:34.300 So they don't want to play fair. 05:34.580 --> 05:38.660 They don't want to work like the rest of a corporation has to. 05:39.000 --> 05:42.880 They're just doing this at the best way they can, the easiest entry point. 05:43.880 --> 05:48.640 And people like Lake Tahoe, really, this is the high water market of injustice. 05:49.160 --> 05:50.040 Here's the headline here. 05:50.320 --> 05:54.840 Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents have to find a new power source after their 05:54.840 --> 05:57.620 energy source looks to redirect lines to data centers. 05:58.170 --> 06:01.840 So we thought it was bad because customers in these small towns, 06:02.200 --> 06:05.240 their energy bills increased because they had to pay for the data center energy. 06:05.560 --> 06:09.100 But now Lake Tahoe residents are being told, just figure it out on your own, 06:09.260 --> 06:09.900 find something new. 06:10.160 --> 06:12.200 We're taking this, says the data centers. 06:12.720 --> 06:15.660 But Tucker Carlson mentioned a referendum for the people to vote. 06:15.920 --> 06:17.480 We reported on this about a month ago. 06:17.580 --> 06:22.300 Wisconsin was the first in basically the country, the nation's first, 06:22.600 --> 06:24.740 to have an anti-data center referendum. 06:24.740 --> 06:29.260 So now people there will be able to vote, not just three to zero county officials. 06:29.580 --> 06:32.200 So that looks like something that's going to be replicated. 06:32.480 --> 06:33.820 It's very easy to replicate it. 06:34.180 --> 06:37.040 But like I was talking about this across the board, 06:37.200 --> 06:39.340 this bipartisan movement that's happening, it's very quickly. 06:39.920 --> 06:46.720 In New Jersey, you have this 60, 60 plus groups just called on New Jersey governor 06:46.720 --> 06:49.780 to immediately pause all AI data center projects. 06:50.000 --> 06:53.540 It's cut across everything, environmental, labor, community organizations. 06:53.540 --> 06:56.440 They're all in here, bipartisan support, Democrats, Republicans. 06:57.260 --> 07:02.040 And this is now leading into the political race for the midterms, 07:02.160 --> 07:03.720 but also possibly for the presidency. 07:03.720 --> 07:06.600 This is going to be a major conversation talking point. 07:06.940 --> 07:10.200 And one of the people that has been out front before this was really popular 07:10.200 --> 07:12.000 has been Ron DeSantis in Florida. 07:12.500 --> 07:14.880 He just signed SB 484. 07:15.380 --> 07:19.740 DeSantis signs bill regulating cost, water, use tied to large data centers in Florida. 07:19.740 --> 07:23.780 So is this preserving the local government's authority over these data centers? 07:24.120 --> 07:27.760 It's protecting the water supply and it's capping the electricity bill. 07:27.900 --> 07:29.560 So the consumers will not have to pay for this. 07:29.600 --> 07:32.900 It seems like common sense, but that's Ron DeSantis. 07:33.400 --> 07:40.480 And other Republicans and Democrats are also jumping into this fray to apparently gain support 07:40.480 --> 07:42.320 because this is a major American issue now. 07:42.580 --> 07:43.860 Here's one out of Virginia. 07:44.420 --> 07:48.640 Republicans prioritize data centers in attempt to flip House seat in Prince William County. 07:48.640 --> 07:54.580 Then we have Pennsylvania AI data center backlash threatens Pennsylvania GOP incumbents in 2026 07:54.580 --> 08:00.100 election. Georgia's battleground races give a first look at a brewing political storm. 08:00.440 --> 08:05.080 It says a multi-billion dollar data center boom is provoking a bipartisan backlash in 08:05.080 --> 08:07.720 one of the nation's most pivotal political battlegrounds. 08:07.820 --> 08:12.440 Public opposition to this growth is starting to bleed into local and state elections, 08:12.440 --> 08:16.700 including a competitive governor's race and a Senate contest that could help 08:16.700 --> 08:18.740 decide the balance of power in Washington. 08:19.120 --> 08:22.820 Meanwhile, leading Republicans and Democrats in the state are still trying to find their footing 08:22.820 --> 08:28.100 on the issue, even as strategists and party officials on both sides of the aisle warn that 08:28.100 --> 08:29.840 it's becoming impossible to ignore. 08:30.640 --> 08:34.840 Think about when the MAHA polling, the really the artificial polling saying 08:34.840 --> 08:38.980 you can ignore vaccines until after the midterms because it's toxic. 08:39.140 --> 08:39.740 Well, they were wrong. 08:39.840 --> 08:42.900 That's one of the white hot topics across America right now. 08:43.270 --> 08:46.940 These same strategists are now saying it's impossible to ignore data centers. 08:47.100 --> 08:49.340 Republican, Democrat, just jump in there. 08:49.560 --> 08:51.080 You got to talk about this. 08:51.140 --> 08:52.960 Take a side because people want to know. 08:53.860 --> 08:58.280 When you're talking to people like a Kevin O'Leary that are pro data center, 08:58.420 --> 08:59.200 they want these. 08:59.360 --> 09:00.560 They want to compete against China. 09:00.980 --> 09:03.380 One of the big conversations is, well, built all these jobs. 09:04.000 --> 09:07.640 Well, maybe, here's one of the headlines that breaks that argument down. 09:08.080 --> 09:10.280 AI data centers employ very few people. 09:10.420 --> 09:11.240 Here's what the numbers show. 09:11.240 --> 09:16.420 It says a $10 billion data center may employ 300 people. 09:16.540 --> 09:19.100 The same money manufacturing would support thousands. 09:19.680 --> 09:22.040 What does that get me for economies and communities? 09:22.320 --> 09:23.660 Well, I think we know it means unemployment. 09:24.100 --> 09:30.960 But really, 4,000 plus data centers, AI taking over, I mean, really everything 09:30.960 --> 09:34.420 at this point was we're being told, we only have one chance on this. 09:34.500 --> 09:38.540 And we can't get it wrong because of the size and the nature of what is being 09:38.540 --> 09:40.320 basically dropped in our lap here. 09:40.320 --> 09:46.320 And this is what the New York Times puts in one headline of the consequences of this. 09:46.760 --> 09:49.740 AI bots told scientists how to make biological weapons. 09:50.080 --> 09:54.480 It says scientists share transcripts with the times in which chat bots described 09:54.480 --> 09:58.540 how to assemble deadly pathogens and unleash them in public spaces. 09:59.080 --> 10:00.040 Kind of dangerous. 10:00.240 --> 10:02.920 It's kind of like chat bots telling kids how to commit suicide. 10:03.460 --> 10:03.860 This isn't good. 10:03.880 --> 10:05.020 There's no guardrails here. 10:05.140 --> 10:08.340 And that's another conversation that really hasn't been answered by anybody 10:08.340 --> 10:10.940 in government is what kind of guardrails can we put on this? 10:11.080 --> 10:12.860 Because it doesn't seem to have any. 10:13.040 --> 10:17.000 And that's now spilling out into the physical structure of our communities with the data centers. 10:17.580 --> 10:19.760 It's almost like it's an invasion. 10:20.420 --> 10:23.900 And the people putting these up and pointing up the money 10:23.900 --> 10:26.860 are fighting against the very people in these rural communities. 10:27.580 --> 10:28.760 Listen to Larry Fink here. 10:28.920 --> 10:33.180 Yeah, before you go to Larry Fink, I mean, I think what it feels like, 10:33.180 --> 10:37.040 honestly, as I'm reporting on this, I feel like we're a news show 10:37.530 --> 10:43.840 just prior to, as we've said, it's that prequel to the dystopian story. 10:44.440 --> 10:47.320 But this is really the Achilles heel of AI. 10:48.080 --> 10:53.840 It's almost as lit as if this is the last battle for humanity to stop Skynet 10:54.410 --> 10:55.900 or to stop Terminator. 10:57.520 --> 11:04.820 You're going to have 40,000 acres of a brain that is sucking all of our energy resources, 11:04.820 --> 11:10.700 all to do what to run our facial recognition software to track us, to control us, to enslave us. 11:12.020 --> 11:15.600 And so obviously, there's a couple of people like Larry. 11:15.700 --> 11:16.960 They're going to make a ton of money. 11:17.340 --> 11:19.340 But how about the rest of the society? 11:19.560 --> 11:21.040 They're like, we don't want this. 11:21.200 --> 11:23.980 It does feel like this is the last stand. 11:24.400 --> 11:29.920 If we are going to take seriously every stupid sci-fi movie we watched on this issue. 11:31.560 --> 11:35.060 And it's like an octopus on our face with the energy. 11:35.660 --> 11:37.900 At first, it was just showing up in people's bills. 11:38.540 --> 11:40.140 Well, you may have to pay a little bit for the data centers. 11:40.320 --> 11:43.480 But like, like Tahoe residents are saying, we're just taking it. 11:43.800 --> 11:45.420 And it's almost like a hostile takeover. 11:45.580 --> 11:47.580 At some point, it's going to be, you know, where? 11:47.800 --> 11:48.400 Where does this end? 11:48.520 --> 11:52.500 It's just going to be data centers will take your energy by edict of the government. 11:52.660 --> 11:55.660 And this, I think, is what the Black Rock CEO, Larry Fink, 11:55.780 --> 11:57.580 is talking about when he says this. 11:57.760 --> 11:58.120 Take a listen. 11:58.120 --> 12:02.680 Now, all of a sudden, Larry Fink is a close associate of Trump's 12:02.680 --> 12:06.380 and is working in close concert with Trump to bring about this AI. 12:07.500 --> 12:13.320 So here's Larry Fink speaking to, you know, fellow members of the Epstein class about 12:14.600 --> 12:17.940 AI and what this means and his concerns about it. 12:18.260 --> 12:19.120 Watch what he's worried about. 12:19.580 --> 12:22.540 But even here in the United States, if we're going to be building less 12:22.540 --> 12:26.940 CVs, one gigawatt data centers, how do we make sure we're not protecting those 12:26.940 --> 12:29.580 50 billion, 75 billion dollar investments? 12:31.020 --> 12:35.040 We have to relook at everything because of the role of drone warfare. 12:35.400 --> 12:36.900 Right now, we're looking at it internationally. 12:37.320 --> 12:44.320 But, you know, one of my concerns is could it be a domestic terrorism using a $3,000 drone? 12:44.920 --> 12:50.060 So all of these things are actually opportunities, not problems. 12:50.580 --> 12:54.800 Wow. I mean, that's, you know, his concern is really domestic terrorism, apparently, 12:54.800 --> 13:00.780 which it's an odd concern when you're going in buying off three officials to take away the 13:00.780 --> 13:05.960 energy and power is essentially for entire town cities, you know, principalities. 13:06.980 --> 13:10.280 It's almost as if you expect there could almost be an uprising. 13:10.700 --> 13:13.000 And certainly we're going to have to protect my investment from that. 13:13.160 --> 13:16.100 I mean, it's getting weird. It's really getting weird.