WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:07.419 But I just want to jump on for a few 2 00:00:07.440 --> 00:00:11.619 minutes today because Donald Trump has now decided he's going 3 00:00:11.660 --> 00:00:14.449 to not just touch the current third rail of American politics. 4 00:00:14.869 --> 00:00:16.769 He's going to lick it and rub it down good. 5 00:00:17.309 --> 00:00:20.850 Donald Trump went all in today on data centers. And 6 00:00:20.870 --> 00:00:24.170 I have to show you his tweet because it's just 7 00:00:24.210 --> 00:00:27.449 a classic piece of Trumpism. I'll read it for you. 8 00:00:28.329 --> 00:00:30.929 The only reason communities throughout the USA should not want 9 00:00:30.949 --> 00:00:33.520 data centers is they want to end up being backward 10 00:00:33.579 --> 00:00:36.520 and poor. If they want to be successful and rich 11 00:00:36.560 --> 00:00:38.740 with far lower taxes and jobs all over the place, 12 00:00:38.939 --> 00:00:41.619 let data reign. The good news is there are plenty 13 00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:43.759 of other places that will want them. If we kill 14 00:00:43.780 --> 00:00:46.020 the golden goose, you'll lay of yourselves to blame. China 15 00:00:46.039 --> 00:00:48.759 could not be happy with this anti-data center movement. Actually, 16 00:00:48.780 --> 00:00:51.020 they can't believe it's happening, President DJT. 17 00:00:51.619 --> 00:00:57.380 Guys, I beg of you, Donald, and you, Donald Donalds, 18 00:00:57.399 --> 00:01:00.759 the both Donalds, Byron Donalds down in Florida has gone 19 00:01:01.159 --> 00:01:03.850 all in supporting data centers. in a state that is 20 00:01:03.950 --> 00:01:07.469 voting to ban them or put a moratorium on them in, 21 00:01:08.069 --> 00:01:10.430 I think it's 12 or 13 of the 67 counties 22 00:01:10.469 --> 00:01:13.250 so far, but Trump himself has now jumped in on 23 00:01:13.269 --> 00:01:18.030 this fight. I have almost never seen in my career 24 00:01:18.049 --> 00:01:27.200 a polling issue so unequivocal. This is like one of 25 00:01:27.219 --> 00:01:29.879 those trans-partisan issues. Oops, sorry, I used the word trans. 26 00:01:30.260 --> 00:01:35.390 This trans-partisan issues that everybody hates them. And why do 27 00:01:35.420 --> 00:01:37.859 they hate them? Well, they hate them because they're a proxy. 28 00:01:39.239 --> 00:01:41.260 Trump's saying, if you don't build a data center, your 29 00:01:41.299 --> 00:01:45.920 community will be backward and poor. Actually gives away the game. 30 00:01:48.579 --> 00:01:50.140 The big tech guys who want to build these data 31 00:01:50.159 --> 00:01:54.540 centers everywhere to train the AI that will take your job. 32 00:01:56.120 --> 00:01:59.319 And by the way, yes, the jobs they're taking now 33 00:01:59.340 --> 00:02:02.540 will be white collar jobs initially. But they're also using 34 00:02:02.579 --> 00:02:07.109 the AI training centers, the AI training data, to start 35 00:02:07.689 --> 00:02:13.150 training robots to take blue-collar jumps. And it's starting to 36 00:02:13.169 --> 00:02:18.650 trickle through. And Trump is remarkably completely on the wrong 37 00:02:18.689 --> 00:02:22.419 side of this issue with his own base. Right after 38 00:02:22.439 --> 00:02:24.360 he tweeted that, I'm going to show you this. I 39 00:02:24.379 --> 00:02:29.460 don't know how well you can see it. But hang on. 40 00:02:35.479 --> 00:02:39.039 All right, here we go. Oh, there it is. I 41 00:02:39.060 --> 00:02:41.419 don't know what way you can see it, but my God, 42 00:02:41.520 --> 00:02:45.080 these are people responding on Truth Social and he's absolutely 43 00:02:45.099 --> 00:02:48.240 getting his head caved in. I mean, he's absolutely getting 44 00:02:48.300 --> 00:02:54.110 a beat down from his own supporters. And when you 45 00:02:54.129 --> 00:03:01.310 look at the tone of those responses, my God, it's brutal. Again, 46 00:03:01.349 --> 00:03:05.650 I'm sorry, it's not that clear on the screen. But it's, 47 00:03:06.509 --> 00:03:08.840 you've lost your mind. You'll be known as the president 48 00:03:08.900 --> 00:03:12.719 slash Freemason who single-handedly destroyed the nation. No data centers. 49 00:03:13.259 --> 00:03:15.840 Love you, DJT. But if you're concerned about windmills destroying 50 00:03:15.879 --> 00:03:18.039 boards and the constant humming, you need to go to 51 00:03:18.199 --> 00:03:20.939 visit a local neighborhood data center in Florida where our 52 00:03:21.020 --> 00:03:23.319 aquifers are so fragile, water is so expensive. Data centers 53 00:03:23.409 --> 00:03:25.050 are the real threat. Am I MAGA? 54 00:03:26.629 --> 00:03:26.849 Guys. 55 00:03:27.819 --> 00:03:31.439 Horrendous messaging. This statement is insane. I'm already on water restrictions. 56 00:03:31.560 --> 00:03:34.319 You're an idiot. You'll be making money, I suspect. Meanwhile, 57 00:03:34.340 --> 00:03:37.039 our lives get shittier with no water and more noise. 58 00:03:39.919 --> 00:03:42.719 Trump has always had a feral sense of cunning, right? 59 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:46.699 Like this low grade thing that he's always got in 60 00:03:47.039 --> 00:03:49.159 his gut. Like, where's the base? Where's the base? What's 61 00:03:49.180 --> 00:03:51.080 the base thinking? Am I with them? Are they with me? 62 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:56.039 He now doesn't give a shit. He's just like, screw it. 63 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:02.740 This is a proxy, once again, guys, for a big, big, 64 00:04:02.819 --> 00:04:04.939 big class warfare thing that's going on in this country. 65 00:04:06.659 --> 00:04:09.719 Why do the data center guys, why are they telling him? 66 00:04:09.750 --> 00:04:11.150 Because this is what they're telling him, by the way. 67 00:04:11.449 --> 00:04:13.289 If you don't build data centers, you'll be backward and poor. 68 00:04:15.669 --> 00:04:19.829 The data center guys understand that. They understand if you 69 00:04:19.870 --> 00:04:21.889 build the data centers, everybody's going to be backward and 70 00:04:23.269 --> 00:04:26.470 They are racing to extract the last bit of financial 71 00:04:26.529 --> 00:04:29.930 capital out of working class and middle class, white collar 72 00:04:29.990 --> 00:04:36.680 and blue collar workers. OpenAI and ChatGPT, well, OpenAI is ChatGPT, 73 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:41.879 OpenAI and Meta and Google and Anthropic, they are all 74 00:04:41.939 --> 00:04:46.420 looking at this data center race, not just as a 75 00:04:46.459 --> 00:04:50.709 CapEx exercise. They're looking at the data center race as 76 00:04:50.769 --> 00:04:55.139 a way to shift about 25% of GDP, those white-collar 77 00:04:55.180 --> 00:05:03.360 and blue-collar jobs, from humans to them. So right now, 78 00:05:03.379 --> 00:05:08.029 let me pick a white-collar job for you. CPAs, tax preparers, right? 79 00:05:08.709 --> 00:05:11.350 It's already been shifting because of software in general, but 80 00:05:11.410 --> 00:05:16.069 in a few years, they want to look out there 81 00:05:16.089 --> 00:05:19.050 and say, okay, CPAs generate extra billion dollars a year 82 00:05:19.089 --> 00:05:23.300 of revenue for themselves. And that's contributed to GDP. They 83 00:05:23.319 --> 00:05:24.819 want to be able to say that the AI will 84 00:05:24.839 --> 00:05:26.980 prepare your taxes. It will do a better job. It 85 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:31.170 will find every single maximal whatever. And you'll pay your 86 00:05:31.170 --> 00:05:34.850 $ 29 or $ 49 or as I paid a couple thousand dollars. 87 00:05:36.790 --> 00:05:41.129 And it will not go to Joe or Jim or 88 00:05:41.189 --> 00:05:45.089 Chris or Maria, your local tax preparer. It will go 89 00:05:45.170 --> 00:05:50.240 to Anthropic or OpenAI or Meta or Google. And iterate 90 00:05:50.279 --> 00:05:54.259 that across the whole economy. That's why the data center 91 00:05:54.300 --> 00:05:57.800 thing is affecting people. They recognize it. It's a proxy 92 00:05:58.079 --> 00:06:00.500 for the economic dislocation that AI is going to cause 93 00:06:00.610 --> 00:06:05.009 in this country. It is also a direct environmental proxy. 94 00:06:05.029 --> 00:06:08.050 Because you know where there's not an AI data center? 95 00:06:09.410 --> 00:06:11.670 Right in the middle of Atherton, California, where the richest 96 00:06:11.709 --> 00:06:14.069 men in the world live. You know where there's not 97 00:06:14.110 --> 00:06:16.879 an AI data center? In Mark Zuckerberg's neighborhood. You know, 98 00:06:16.889 --> 00:06:19.019 there will never be an AI data center in Sundar 99 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:21.720 Pichai's neighborhood. You know, there will never, ever be an 100 00:06:21.759 --> 00:06:26.500 AI data center in Sam Altman's neighborhood. Because the AI 101 00:06:26.519 --> 00:06:30.759 data centers they're building in Florida and in Georgia and Alabama, 102 00:06:30.839 --> 00:06:34.060 Mississippi and Tennessee and Texas are so large you can 103 00:06:34.079 --> 00:06:38.399 see them from space. They are so damaging to the 104 00:06:38.620 --> 00:06:41.779 local environment. And I'm not talking about like the sort 105 00:06:41.800 --> 00:06:44.819 of ephemeral, like, oh, is it climate change? No. 106 00:06:44.850 --> 00:06:44.939 No. 107 00:06:46.170 --> 00:06:49.949 The turbine generators that run the power systems for these 108 00:06:49.990 --> 00:06:54.269 things scream all day and all night long. It is 109 00:06:54.310 --> 00:06:56.389 a sound you will never forget once you hear it. 110 00:06:58.029 --> 00:07:01.350 I want to play a quick clip of an ad 111 00:07:01.389 --> 00:07:05.709 we did in Florida for a super PAC helping David Jolly. 112 00:07:06.610 --> 00:07:09.310 Because Byron Donalds in Florida has dug in so hard 113 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:11.180 on data centers. But I want you to listen to 114 00:07:11.199 --> 00:07:12.720 the noise. It's a real sound that we got. 115 00:07:16.110 --> 00:07:20.540 Water all the things that make our state so magical 116 00:07:21.259 --> 00:07:25.300 you thought you were getting this came to florida for 117 00:07:25.319 --> 00:07:30.959 the sun the weather the water all the things that 118 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:34.300 make our state so magical you thought you were getting 119 00:07:34.339 --> 00:07:40.230 this but the man they call data center donalds wants 120 00:07:40.290 --> 00:07:43.370 a different sound and so do his billionaire mega. 121 00:07:43.129 --> 00:07:45.149 Donors it's this. 122 00:07:46.540 --> 00:07:49.360 Donald's and his friends want to build thousands of data 123 00:07:49.399 --> 00:07:54.589 centers right in your backyard. They run 24-7, a noise 124 00:07:54.689 --> 00:07:59.230 from hell. They make our already sky-high electrical bills even 125 00:07:59.269 --> 00:08:03.879 worse and drive down your home value. But data center 126 00:08:03.889 --> 00:08:07.819 Donald's owes big tech, and he'll do everything they say. 127 00:08:08.829 --> 00:08:11.009 Florida does not leave, California will. 128 00:08:11.089 --> 00:08:14.290 So when you hear Byron Donalds, get used to hearing 129 00:08:14.329 --> 00:08:18.379 this sound every day, every night, forever. 130 00:08:18.500 --> 00:08:26.600 All right, so that's just one example. And frankly, since 131 00:08:26.660 --> 00:08:30.370 Trump has now staked out this position, I want people 132 00:08:31.290 --> 00:08:34.190 to start asking those vulnerable Republicans in the 26 districts 133 00:08:34.210 --> 00:08:38.129 that we're going after and others, And those vulnerable statewide 134 00:08:38.169 --> 00:08:42.250 Senate races, where they are on data centers, because now 135 00:08:42.909 --> 00:08:45.610 Trump has put them in a trap. Now Trump has 136 00:08:45.649 --> 00:08:47.090 put them in a trap where if they say, I 137 00:08:47.490 --> 00:08:49.590 don't want data centers, then the next thing that's going 138 00:08:49.610 --> 00:08:52.429 to happen is Trump's going to notice. And people will say, 139 00:08:52.700 --> 00:08:57.840 you're not loyal to the president. This is a unforced 140 00:08:57.980 --> 00:09:02.259 error on the part of Donald Trump that frankly was inconceivable. 141 00:09:03.740 --> 00:09:05.840 Even in 2024, he would never have made this kind 142 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:09.919 of error. He had a sensitivity in 24 to the 143 00:09:10.080 --> 00:09:13.179 efficacy of the message about the economy and inflation and 144 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:18.370 gas prices and grocery prices that no matter how mendacious 145 00:09:18.429 --> 00:09:19.850 it was, no matter if he didn't have a solution 146 00:09:19.909 --> 00:09:21.090 to it, the fact that he would make it worse 147 00:09:21.149 --> 00:09:24.289 didn't matter. He had that gut sense and he has 148 00:09:24.350 --> 00:09:26.509 lost that gut sense. But now these Republicans are going 149 00:09:26.529 --> 00:09:28.809 to have to come out and either publicly say, I 150 00:09:29.629 --> 00:09:32.610 love Donald Trump and he's right on data centers, or 151 00:09:32.629 --> 00:09:35.620 they're going to have to say, No presence wrong in 152 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:36.980 data centers. I'm not going to vote for them. I'm 153 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:42.740 going to push against them. Please, Donald, keep talking. And 154 00:09:42.759 --> 00:09:45.179 you too, Byron Donalds, keep talking about data centers. I 155 00:09:45.250 --> 00:09:48.269 want you to talk about data centers all day, every day. 156 00:09:48.590 --> 00:09:51.409 I never want you to spend a moment. I want 157 00:09:51.429 --> 00:09:54.789 you to spend every waking minute talking about data centers 158 00:09:54.809 --> 00:09:59.370 from now on, because the fact that data centers are 159 00:09:59.389 --> 00:10:02.919 so popularized, and people just love them. They just love 160 00:10:02.960 --> 00:10:05.659 data centers. They think data centers are the greatest thing 161 00:10:05.679 --> 00:10:10.179 since prepared mustard. They think data centers are making their weight. 162 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:15.950 They don't. And when I tell you every poll that 163 00:10:15.990 --> 00:10:18.629 we have examined this year, when I say that every 164 00:10:18.690 --> 00:10:22.269 poll we've looked at this year has shown data centers 165 00:10:22.610 --> 00:10:27.950 to be so fricking unpopular to be so, so politically 166 00:10:28.090 --> 00:10:38.240 poisonous guys. It's universal. There are no surveys, national surveys 167 00:10:38.259 --> 00:10:42.299 that I'm aware of this year that have said, Oh, 168 00:10:42.360 --> 00:10:44.059 data centers are super popular. I'm going to show you 169 00:10:44.080 --> 00:10:48.480 a couple quick slides on this because this is from 170 00:10:48.500 --> 00:10:52.070 the heat map poll. And I'm going to add this 171 00:10:52.129 --> 00:10:54.629 on stage. I'm going to go full screen. Again, I'm 172 00:10:54.690 --> 00:10:57.370 sorry if it's kind of hard to see. So in 173 00:10:57.389 --> 00:11:01.009 a year, we've gone from about 45% opposed data centers 174 00:11:01.250 --> 00:11:05.070 to just under 75% opposed data centers where they live, okay? 175 00:11:06.970 --> 00:11:10.789 For something to move that much in a year, it's 176 00:11:10.850 --> 00:11:15.190 not a psyop. It's not some liberal talking point as 177 00:11:15.250 --> 00:11:17.980 Trump is trying to put, Trump allies are trying to 178 00:11:18.009 --> 00:11:21.200 push out. It's not some Chinese PSYOP, blah, blah, blah. 179 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:28.279 It is a political tectonic shift in the country. Here's 180 00:11:28.299 --> 00:11:35.120 another one for you. Data centers are underwater with Democrats 181 00:11:35.139 --> 00:11:43.370 by 75%, independents by 65%, 67%. Republicans are still underwater 182 00:11:43.730 --> 00:11:47.330 by about 45%. And rural voters, who are the ones 183 00:11:47.389 --> 00:11:51.700 taking the hit, who are the ones getting the data 184 00:11:51.720 --> 00:11:55.899 center shoved in their face are right where independents are 185 00:11:55.980 --> 00:12:00.360 and not far into where Democrats are. Y'all, when I 186 00:12:00.419 --> 00:12:03.500 tell you that this is a losing issue for Republicans 187 00:12:03.559 --> 00:12:07.070 and for MAGA, I want Donald Trump to keep talking 188 00:12:07.110 --> 00:12:10.409 about it. Tell me I'm wrong, Donald. Keep talking about it. 189 00:12:10.470 --> 00:12:15.649 My God, it is poisonous and it's going to stay poisonous. 190 00:12:16.110 --> 00:12:17.990 I've got a memo that came out a couple of 191 00:12:18.009 --> 00:12:22.450 weeks ago Where is that? Did we load that? Maybe 192 00:12:22.490 --> 00:12:25.169 we didn't load that yet. Hang on. A memo that 193 00:12:25.190 --> 00:12:27.809 came out in the Ohio Senate race a couple weeks ago, okay, 194 00:12:28.409 --> 00:12:33.490 from the NRSC. And the NRSC, I've just clipped a 195 00:12:33.509 --> 00:12:38.909 part of it for you here, talked about why, about 196 00:12:38.950 --> 00:12:42.990 two weeks ago, why John Husted is losing to Sherrod Brown. Now, 197 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:45.519 there's a number of reasons. Sherrod's a good candidate. He's 198 00:12:45.539 --> 00:12:49.090 really born-again hard. But they say data centers are the 199 00:12:49.269 --> 00:12:54.090 anchor hanging around Husted's neck. This has become a sleeper 200 00:12:54.149 --> 00:12:56.690 issue of the entire election cycle. Now, the purpose of 201 00:12:56.730 --> 00:13:01.070 this memo from the NRSC was not to protect John Husted. 202 00:13:02.149 --> 00:13:05.230 The purpose was to raise money from the data center 203 00:13:05.370 --> 00:13:09.389 industry and from the AI industry. Just as Byron Donald's 204 00:13:09.429 --> 00:13:12.509 campaign is being floated by the AI industry, their biggest 205 00:13:12.549 --> 00:13:14.750 super PAC is all funded by AI money and big 206 00:13:14.769 --> 00:13:18.470 tech money. His campaign is flooded with data center money 207 00:13:18.529 --> 00:13:24.000 and AI money and big tech money, as is Busted's. 208 00:13:25.059 --> 00:13:27.519 And the NRC was essentially saying, we know how bad 209 00:13:27.559 --> 00:13:30.240 this issue is. We know how much it sucks. We 210 00:13:30.259 --> 00:13:33.919 know how angry you are. Give us more money, data 211 00:13:33.940 --> 00:13:35.940 center guys, so we can keep forcing it down the 212 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:40.190 throats of the people of Ohio. It has turned so poisonous, folks, 213 00:13:40.210 --> 00:13:45.360 that in Florida, process this for a second, Even Ron 214 00:13:45.399 --> 00:13:48.019 DeSantis is like, oh, data centers, we've got to sort 215 00:13:48.080 --> 00:13:51.899 out data centers. But Donald's, again, all in on data centers. 216 00:13:52.139 --> 00:13:53.299 His lieutenant governor. 217 00:13:53.059 --> 00:13:57.360 Choice, and he's a Republican, by the way, he picked 218 00:13:57.399 --> 00:14:00.639 a guy for lieutenant governor who sponsored the data center 219 00:14:00.659 --> 00:14:03.200 bill that gave them the power to come in with 220 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:06.519 NDAs and to secretly place these data centers in Florida 221 00:14:06.720 --> 00:14:07.710 with no liability. 222 00:14:10.049 --> 00:14:12.830 He's also pro-gun control, which, again, is a weird choice 223 00:14:12.889 --> 00:14:16.919 for Florida. And he's also a Miami Cuban, which, welcome 224 00:14:16.940 --> 00:14:20.659 to North Florida, which is Alabama, which is, you know, 225 00:14:20.779 --> 00:14:22.549 as one Republican said to me the other day, he goes, whoa, 226 00:14:22.570 --> 00:14:27.669 looks like Byron's got himself a DEI ticket now. Anyway, 227 00:14:28.549 --> 00:14:31.490 but I want Trump and Donalds and these other Republicans, 228 00:14:32.450 --> 00:14:36.669 in Texas, Greg Abbott is in trouble. Gina Hinojosa is 229 00:14:36.870 --> 00:14:42.919 on his heels. Greg Abbott in Texas is like, No, 230 00:14:42.940 --> 00:14:44.159 we're going to back off on the data centers. We're 231 00:14:44.179 --> 00:14:47.029 going to hold off on this for a minute. Really? 232 00:14:48.230 --> 00:14:51.049 James Tallarico is running against Ken Paxton, of course, and 233 00:14:51.190 --> 00:14:54.029 doing very well, as we all know. And Paxton is 234 00:14:54.049 --> 00:14:56.970 still all in on the data centers, hoping to get 235 00:14:57.029 --> 00:14:59.000 some tranche of big tech money rolling in at the 236 00:14:59.379 --> 00:15:05.860 last minute. Guys, this shit is amazing. I want Republicans 237 00:15:05.879 --> 00:15:09.470 to keep fighting for data centers. Please, guys, keep fighting 238 00:15:09.490 --> 00:15:12.100 for data centers. It is my dream that you will 239 00:15:12.129 --> 00:15:14.940 die on this hill because it is a hill you 240 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:19.899 will die on politically. Now, there is a rising wave. 241 00:15:19.919 --> 00:15:22.059 You guys should all prepare yourselves to hear this. MAG 242 00:15:22.100 --> 00:15:24.980 is going to say, opposition to data centers is all 243 00:15:25.039 --> 00:15:29.600 because of the Chinese. They've got an influence campaign. Now, 244 00:15:29.639 --> 00:15:31.779 these are the people who've said, oh, no, Russian influence 245 00:15:31.799 --> 00:15:36.740 campaigns never existed to help Trump. But suddenly this Chinese 246 00:15:37.220 --> 00:15:40.470 data center campaign is the magical power that has hypnotized 247 00:15:40.470 --> 00:15:45.340 300 million Americans to hate data centers. It ain't. By 248 00:15:45.360 --> 00:15:47.899 the way, China's going to do just fine in the 249 00:15:48.019 --> 00:15:51.559 AI war against us because they're moving at speed and 250 00:15:51.580 --> 00:15:55.860 scale for a bunch of models that are publicly deployable 251 00:15:55.980 --> 00:15:58.759 on lower power hardware. We are in a race with 252 00:15:58.779 --> 00:16:05.210 China on AI. But right now, it's not going to 253 00:16:05.250 --> 00:16:07.309 be contingent on whether we build out the data center 254 00:16:07.370 --> 00:16:12.519 capacity faster. They're innovating faster. Just is. The Kimmy model 255 00:16:12.580 --> 00:16:16.279 is very powerful. Anyway, that's a rabbit hole. We don't 256 00:16:16.299 --> 00:16:19.039 need to go down on this on this live. But guys, 257 00:16:20.049 --> 00:16:21.970 if you're in a district with one of these Republicans 258 00:16:21.990 --> 00:16:24.330 who is vulnerable. First off, let me know in the 259 00:16:24.370 --> 00:16:27.070 comments if you're in a district with a Republican who's 260 00:16:27.129 --> 00:16:29.769 cheerleading for data centers. 261 00:16:29.789 --> 00:16:30.649 OK. 262 00:16:31.250 --> 00:16:34.320 Oh, yeah. Somebody just mentioned Musk. That is another reason 263 00:16:34.379 --> 00:16:37.580 why Paxton is trying this. He's hoping Musk will swag 264 00:16:37.620 --> 00:16:39.860 a check for $ 100 million or $ 200 million, some kind 265 00:16:39.919 --> 00:16:44.000 of bullshit like that. And I don't know that's going 266 00:16:44.019 --> 00:16:50.679 to happen. In part, for a sort of technical reason, 267 00:16:53.909 --> 00:16:59.710 that the guy running Paxton's campaign is a notorious Republican 268 00:16:59.769 --> 00:17:03.730 Party grifter, okay? I mean, not like notorious, like a 269 00:17:03.769 --> 00:17:06.470 little bit notorious, like rape and pillage. He has things 270 00:17:06.529 --> 00:17:10.019 on his slides and his pitch deck. Like, I keep 271 00:17:10.019 --> 00:17:14.759 67% of every dollar a campaign spends. It must be nice. 272 00:17:19.420 --> 00:17:22.339 But the people that right now are in this political 273 00:17:22.380 --> 00:17:26.079 wedge on the Republican side, you should ask them. If 274 00:17:26.140 --> 00:17:28.079 you're in their district, you should go to a town 275 00:17:28.099 --> 00:17:30.819 hall meeting if they'll do one or ask them on socials. 276 00:17:31.750 --> 00:17:35.769 Do you agree with the president on data centers? Remember, 277 00:17:36.009 --> 00:17:38.279 all things in Trump's world are mediated through one of 278 00:17:38.339 --> 00:17:44.019 two modalities, Fox News or social media. The response he's 279 00:17:44.039 --> 00:17:49.019 gotten so far on true social, it's going to rattle him. 280 00:17:50.480 --> 00:17:52.740 It's going to be even worse if Republicans start getting 281 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:56.400 asked about this. And, oh, yeah, I interviewed Aaron Brockovich 282 00:17:56.420 --> 00:17:58.529 a couple weeks ago on the podcast about data centers. 283 00:17:59.089 --> 00:18:02.180 It was a phenomenal conversation. He has a great site 284 00:18:02.200 --> 00:18:04.140 where you can report data centers in your area and 285 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:10.289 also find out like who's accountable. This political stink bomb, 286 00:18:11.250 --> 00:18:14.490 this thing is radioactive waste and the GOP has not 287 00:18:14.569 --> 00:18:19.250 figured it out. So caught. And I love it so much. 288 00:18:20.319 --> 00:18:24.799 They're so caught in this and yes, is, is Mark 289 00:18:24.819 --> 00:18:30.440 Zuckerberg and, and, Are Mark Zuckerberg and Mark Andreessen and 290 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:34.259 Peter Thiel and all the various Silicon Valley players, big 291 00:18:34.299 --> 00:18:38.140 tech players, AI players, are they spending a lot of 292 00:18:38.160 --> 00:18:41.220 CapEx on AI? Yes, they are. Do they want to 293 00:18:41.269 --> 00:18:45.109 build them everywhere? Yes, they do. Do they care about 294 00:18:45.150 --> 00:18:49.829 your community? Abso-fricking-lutely not. Not a bit, not one iota 295 00:18:50.009 --> 00:18:52.799 do they care. That is why all these communities are 296 00:18:52.839 --> 00:18:58.089 forced to sign MBAs. And there's no economic boom coming 297 00:18:58.130 --> 00:19:03.069 from these things. Georgia spent $ 475 million last year incentivizing 298 00:19:03.150 --> 00:19:05.589 AI data centers to come to Georgia. They have collected 299 00:19:05.589 --> 00:19:10.650 $ 40 million of tax revenue. I'm sure that's going to 300 00:19:10.710 --> 00:19:13.559 iterate out pretty much the same way everywhere else. If 301 00:19:13.599 --> 00:19:16.319 you thought it was a rip off of your taxpayer 302 00:19:16.359 --> 00:19:20.480 dollars back in the day to give billionaires money to 303 00:19:20.500 --> 00:19:26.240 build a stadium, you were right. You were correct. If 304 00:19:26.259 --> 00:19:28.980 you think it's a bigger ripoff of your taxpayer dollars 305 00:19:29.019 --> 00:19:34.289 to subsidize Elon Musk and Sam Altman and Mark Zuckerberg 306 00:19:34.309 --> 00:19:37.849 building data centers in your neighborhood or on your farm, oh, 307 00:19:37.869 --> 00:19:44.490 you are even more right. And guys, counties in North Florida, 308 00:19:44.950 --> 00:19:48.450 where I live, this is a very, very red state, 309 00:19:49.450 --> 00:19:51.980 red part of the state. state, excuse me. This is 310 00:19:52.019 --> 00:19:55.500 Southern Alabama. If you take a left out of my street, 311 00:19:56.119 --> 00:19:59.200 you're in Georgia in about two minutes. No, maybe six minutes. 312 00:19:59.950 --> 00:20:05.849 But Georgia, very quickly out of my street, okay? Farmers 313 00:20:06.789 --> 00:20:11.170 in Florida And ranchers in central Florida, which is, Florida 314 00:20:11.210 --> 00:20:13.180 is the number eight state for cattle ranching in the country. 315 00:20:13.200 --> 00:20:15.319 You bet you didn't know that. We've been doing cowboys 316 00:20:15.359 --> 00:20:18.119 here since way before there were cowboys in the West. 317 00:20:20.640 --> 00:20:26.140 Florida farmers and cattlemen are the number one targets for 318 00:20:26.200 --> 00:20:29.309 these land acquisition guys and these data center acquisition guys. 319 00:20:29.890 --> 00:20:31.869 And they want to come in and burn down, I 320 00:20:31.869 --> 00:20:38.569 don't know, 2,000, 3,000, 5,000 acres of farmland. and build 321 00:20:38.589 --> 00:20:40.730 data centers on them. They want to build what they 322 00:20:40.750 --> 00:20:46.349 call hyperscalers, the biggest of big data centers. The other 323 00:20:46.369 --> 00:20:49.319 thing about Florida that my science-y wife has pointed out 324 00:20:49.339 --> 00:20:54.200 to me is our aquifer is so stressed out in Florida. 325 00:20:54.220 --> 00:20:56.779 We've got way too many people who've moved here. Data 326 00:20:56.799 --> 00:20:58.779 centers are going to be pumping out the Florida aquifer, 327 00:20:58.799 --> 00:21:04.009 which is going to mean sinkholes. has had sinkhole problems 328 00:21:04.130 --> 00:21:06.309 for years as people move here and they drain the 329 00:21:06.410 --> 00:21:10.089 aquifers and then the limestone collapses, right? I speak from 330 00:21:10.130 --> 00:21:14.809 experience on this because in the 80s, our home in Carolina, Florida, 331 00:21:15.109 --> 00:21:18.789 got sucked down by a sinkhole. The data centers are 332 00:21:18.829 --> 00:21:21.470 going to turn that into a daily occurrence because they 333 00:21:21.519 --> 00:21:25.400 suck down so much water. The ones that want to 334 00:21:25.660 --> 00:21:28.940 build near rivers, say goodbye to your fresh seafood and 335 00:21:28.960 --> 00:21:32.519 your oysters in Florida. They get to build on either 336 00:21:32.619 --> 00:21:35.539 the Flint river, uh, on the here in West Florida, 337 00:21:35.559 --> 00:21:38.599 the St. John's over in, in Jacksonville area. They want 338 00:21:38.640 --> 00:21:40.980 to build these things where they can get cheap water 339 00:21:41.089 --> 00:21:44.089 and cheap power and cheap political figures who will be 340 00:21:44.190 --> 00:21:48.829 bought off for nothing. So that's why it's poisonous everywhere. 341 00:21:50.089 --> 00:21:53.509 This is happening everywhere. The most conservative counties in Florida, 342 00:21:55.029 --> 00:22:02.230 some of the most conservative, Escambia, Wakulla, Martin, um, These 343 00:22:02.309 --> 00:22:05.759 counties have said no. They put moratoriums on all over 344 00:22:05.779 --> 00:22:08.079 the place. There are moratoriums popping up in Texas for 345 00:22:08.099 --> 00:22:11.619 data centers all over the place. They want you to 346 00:22:11.700 --> 00:22:16.200 subsidize their AI transfer of your wealth, and people get it. 347 00:22:16.880 --> 00:22:21.140 And politically, they understand how freaking poisonous this is. So 348 00:22:21.200 --> 00:22:24.240 Trump being all in on this, Trump being all obsessed 349 00:22:24.279 --> 00:22:35.849 about this, it is absolutely... Sorry, I just had to 350 00:22:35.890 --> 00:22:38.910 deal with some business there. It is absolutely an issue 351 00:22:38.990 --> 00:22:41.099 I want Republicans to be dug in on. I want 352 00:22:41.119 --> 00:22:44.059 them to support the president 100% on this. Let me 353 00:22:44.079 --> 00:22:46.099 play J.D. Vance's clip here, and then I'm going to 354 00:22:46.180 --> 00:22:46.440 roll up. 355 00:22:46.700 --> 00:22:49.640 Take advantage of some of the federal deregulatory efforts that 356 00:22:49.660 --> 00:22:52.619 we've undertaken. If you build a data center, you should 357 00:22:52.640 --> 00:22:55.700 be putting power back into the grid, not taking it out. 358 00:22:55.779 --> 00:22:58.279 And if that is happening, I don't think the data 359 00:22:58.299 --> 00:22:59.480 centers are that controversial. 360 00:23:01.980 --> 00:23:07.240 Oh, au contraire, couch boy. The data centers are not 361 00:23:09.269 --> 00:23:12.609 going to be putting power back into the grid. This 362 00:23:12.710 --> 00:23:19.509 is what we call in politics a big fat fucking lie. J.D. 363 00:23:21.710 --> 00:23:26.390 does not recognize that these data centers are politically poisoned 364 00:23:26.410 --> 00:23:28.049 because he's got to follow Trump because he wants to 365 00:23:28.069 --> 00:23:31.890 run for president. All the BS, right? The trap he's 366 00:23:31.970 --> 00:23:35.660 in just then is trying to wedge a little tiny, like, oh, 367 00:23:35.680 --> 00:23:37.839 they're going to put power back. No, they're not, JD. 368 00:23:39.309 --> 00:23:46.369 They're not. Again, this is a proxy for class and 369 00:23:46.509 --> 00:23:51.690 economic dislocation that has entered into the brains of Americans 370 00:23:51.799 --> 00:23:53.880 in a way that is going to be really hard 371 00:23:53.920 --> 00:23:56.259 to shift. There's no amount of money you can spend 372 00:23:56.299 --> 00:23:58.839 in the next 65 days. It's going to convince a 373 00:23:58.880 --> 00:24:03.730 guy in North Florida or South Georgia or or Tennessee, 374 00:24:04.109 --> 00:24:09.170 that a data center on his farm is going to 375 00:24:09.190 --> 00:24:13.470 be a net positive for the community. That a neighborhood 376 00:24:14.130 --> 00:24:17.890 listening to the data center screaming all night is going 377 00:24:17.910 --> 00:24:20.259 to be a net positive for their community. That a 378 00:24:20.299 --> 00:24:25.480 data center that pollutes the water table at scale is 379 00:24:25.500 --> 00:24:27.420 going to be a great net positive for their community. 380 00:24:28.279 --> 00:24:31.380 There's not enough money in the universe to change the 381 00:24:31.420 --> 00:24:35.920 minds of Americans when they're at, they're at basically five 382 00:24:35.960 --> 00:24:42.609 to one against data centers. He is obviously not listening 383 00:24:42.630 --> 00:24:45.410 to come to the pollster. Trump is not listening to 384 00:24:45.450 --> 00:24:48.769 his pollsters clearly because this issue is coming up everywhere 385 00:24:48.970 --> 00:24:51.650 and it's coming up hard. Um, we're going to be 386 00:24:51.670 --> 00:24:54.410 doing some ads at our targeted races against these Republicans 387 00:24:54.450 --> 00:24:59.460 on the data center issue, because guys, I've never seen anything, um, 388 00:25:00.460 --> 00:25:04.519 I've never seen anything move this. Final buzzer, you made 389 00:25:04.559 --> 00:25:09.319 a great point just now. The technology in the data centers, 390 00:25:11.549 --> 00:25:14.349 I want you to remember that the investment in data centers, 391 00:25:14.390 --> 00:25:18.690 these people are like locusts. They're going to build these things. 392 00:25:19.210 --> 00:25:20.589 They're going to use them for a couple of years. 393 00:25:20.609 --> 00:25:22.730 And you know what they're going to do after that? 394 00:25:22.769 --> 00:25:24.089 They're going to dump them. And you're going to be 395 00:25:24.130 --> 00:25:27.130 left with these abandoned shells in the middle of what 396 00:25:27.170 --> 00:25:30.519 were farms and neighborhoods and cities and communities. and suburbs, 397 00:25:32.839 --> 00:25:34.480 and they're going to say, well, you clean up the mess. 398 00:25:35.859 --> 00:25:39.279 That's what they always do, guys. They want the classic 399 00:25:40.960 --> 00:25:46.359 post-free market economic model of socialize the risk and privatize 400 00:25:46.400 --> 00:25:54.170 the benefit. If they were really so intent on selling 401 00:25:54.190 --> 00:25:55.890