Conservatives can and should ask hard questions about data centers: water, power, noise, land use, local control, foreign ownership, grid reliability, and whether communities are being steamrolled by Big Tech. We recently talked about it with Rachel Keshel from Arizona:
But America also needs compute power, energy dominance, manufacturing, AI infrastructure, and technological sovereignty. That is the strategic terrain the Left understands. If they can’t stop American reindustrialization openly, they will do it through fake “conservative” front groups that turn legitimate local concerns into degrowth politics. Schachtel’s point is simple: know who is holding the clipboard. If Kamala-adjacent funders, Silicon Valley doomer money, and anti-MAGA organizers are steering the protest, the movement is not America First. It is managed sabotage with lawn signs.
I'm not mad about protesting data centers, but they're complete morons of they think money and business owns a political party. Obama was backed by big banking and energy, among others.
So data centers may be needed, but there is evidence of towns having water problems now since they have been built. So what is the real story? Do we need them to stay ahead of China? Do they deplete water and energy from the areas they are built near? Are they collecting all our data for nefarious reasons?
"They also have a right to know who is really leading the opposition to the re-industrialization of America."
The people's opposition to these data centers is REAL. They are not needed for "re-industrialization" but for the technocratic surveillance state. I don't give a hoot who is organizing protests as we know most protests get organized by authorities on both sides in order to try and control the opposition.
We don't see AI as a "race". We see it as "BIg Brother" and we simply REJECT IT.
Taking land through eminent domain so power lines can feed a noisy, 24/7 data center collecting all information so they know how I feel and what I think before I do - well is Un-American and violates all of America's founding principles. Tax revenues coming to town? Not on your life - do the audit. These companies get more tax breaks on everything. They don't contribute, they suck wallets dry.
AI is not inevitable. All must fight it. Failure to resist now will lead you to "Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, I have no privacy and life has never been better." (They never finish the sentence that life has never been better for whom? You? or the global elites running this show?
The industry needs to get ahead of this. I can see the problem in my town so Republican that a famous dead pimp won a legislative election because he was on the Republican ticket. There is a major effort to exclude data centers from the community. Not many CCP operatives here though there are probably some dupes. The county commissioners etc can fix this by isolating the data centers from the grid and the water supply. If data centers are as profitable as the market would seem to indicate, the industry should have no problem paying the costs. The isolation is technically feasible and involves on-site power and recycled water or non-water cooling. The on-site power will increase the total grid support if the data centers don't pan out.
I’m against any group pushing against or pushing for for these data centers. We may need them but we don’t need ignored people’s concerns in their roll out. Too many bad things happen when they are done too fast and people’s concerns are ignored.
Jordan and Richard Luthmann are over the target like usual…
Americans need to wake the fu** up. Every time the United States gains ground in the race for AI supremacy, another “grassroots” protest magically appears to stall it. Follow the money. Foreign interests—including strategic rivals like China—and ideological donors who oppose American industrial strength have every incentive to cripple our technological future while they accelerate their own. Delaying AI infrastructure doesn’t punish Silicon Valley—it weakens America’s economy, national security, and global competitiveness. Don’t become an unwitting pawn in someone else’s strategy. If America surrenders leadership in artificial intelligence, our adversaries won’t hesitate to seize it. Freedom requires vigilance, not manufactured outrage.
Everyone on the right should have nothing to do with this radical organization, as you have rightly pointed out, and I think you should keep pointing them out.
However, question I have for you Jordan is when are we on the right going to come and reason together? We are not all a bunch of idiots on the right who have been duped by these wily left wingers. Which, I will be blunt, is being insinuated if not outright said by you and especially the guests you bring on your podcast. I don't believe that is your intention (I do believe its your guests intention though). There are legitimate concerns, not fear mongering, but legitimate concerns. All things I believe we can overcome because we are Americans but so far all I see is our own propaganda on the right. We need discussion and honest and open debate on this topic.
Conservatives can and should ask hard questions about data centers: water, power, noise, land use, local control, foreign ownership, grid reliability, and whether communities are being steamrolled by Big Tech. We recently talked about it with Rachel Keshel from Arizona:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYDk-Ffm-EU
But America also needs compute power, energy dominance, manufacturing, AI infrastructure, and technological sovereignty. That is the strategic terrain the Left understands. If they can’t stop American reindustrialization openly, they will do it through fake “conservative” front groups that turn legitimate local concerns into degrowth politics. Schachtel’s point is simple: know who is holding the clipboard. If Kamala-adjacent funders, Silicon Valley doomer money, and anti-MAGA organizers are steering the protest, the movement is not America First. It is managed sabotage with lawn signs.
I'm not mad about protesting data centers, but they're complete morons of they think money and business owns a political party. Obama was backed by big banking and energy, among others.
So data centers may be needed, but there is evidence of towns having water problems now since they have been built. So what is the real story? Do we need them to stay ahead of China? Do they deplete water and energy from the areas they are built near? Are they collecting all our data for nefarious reasons?
"They also have a right to know who is really leading the opposition to the re-industrialization of America."
The people's opposition to these data centers is REAL. They are not needed for "re-industrialization" but for the technocratic surveillance state. I don't give a hoot who is organizing protests as we know most protests get organized by authorities on both sides in order to try and control the opposition.
We don't see AI as a "race". We see it as "BIg Brother" and we simply REJECT IT.
Taking land through eminent domain so power lines can feed a noisy, 24/7 data center collecting all information so they know how I feel and what I think before I do - well is Un-American and violates all of America's founding principles. Tax revenues coming to town? Not on your life - do the audit. These companies get more tax breaks on everything. They don't contribute, they suck wallets dry.
AI is not inevitable. All must fight it. Failure to resist now will lead you to "Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, I have no privacy and life has never been better." (They never finish the sentence that life has never been better for whom? You? or the global elites running this show?
The industry needs to get ahead of this. I can see the problem in my town so Republican that a famous dead pimp won a legislative election because he was on the Republican ticket. There is a major effort to exclude data centers from the community. Not many CCP operatives here though there are probably some dupes. The county commissioners etc can fix this by isolating the data centers from the grid and the water supply. If data centers are as profitable as the market would seem to indicate, the industry should have no problem paying the costs. The isolation is technically feasible and involves on-site power and recycled water or non-water cooling. The on-site power will increase the total grid support if the data centers don't pan out.
I’m against any group pushing against or pushing for for these data centers. We may need them but we don’t need ignored people’s concerns in their roll out. Too many bad things happen when they are done too fast and people’s concerns are ignored.
Jordan and Richard Luthmann are over the target like usual…
Americans need to wake the fu** up. Every time the United States gains ground in the race for AI supremacy, another “grassroots” protest magically appears to stall it. Follow the money. Foreign interests—including strategic rivals like China—and ideological donors who oppose American industrial strength have every incentive to cripple our technological future while they accelerate their own. Delaying AI infrastructure doesn’t punish Silicon Valley—it weakens America’s economy, national security, and global competitiveness. Don’t become an unwitting pawn in someone else’s strategy. If America surrenders leadership in artificial intelligence, our adversaries won’t hesitate to seize it. Freedom requires vigilance, not manufactured outrage.
Everyone on the right should have nothing to do with this radical organization, as you have rightly pointed out, and I think you should keep pointing them out.
However, question I have for you Jordan is when are we on the right going to come and reason together? We are not all a bunch of idiots on the right who have been duped by these wily left wingers. Which, I will be blunt, is being insinuated if not outright said by you and especially the guests you bring on your podcast. I don't believe that is your intention (I do believe its your guests intention though). There are legitimate concerns, not fear mongering, but legitimate concerns. All things I believe we can overcome because we are Americans but so far all I see is our own propaganda on the right. We need discussion and honest and open debate on this topic.
This whole thing is China trying to keep us from kicking their ass in tech.
Wake up. It’s not horizontal (right vs left); it’s vertical - the 1% vs the rest of us.
It’s definitely Lenin funding the opposition to accomplish what they want kind of thing.
We’re sick of the ever-increasing massive data harvesting. Give us data sovereignty with total transparency or AI can go to hell.
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