This podcast was sparked by what I think was an excellent article on the true nature and uses of data centers that I found here on Substack. I don’t know who the author actually is, but their understanding of this issue matches my own.
The people who back data centers are trying to make it look like our opposition is inspired by “Chinese propaganda”, and even worse, they seem to be putting the framework in place to treat our opposition as terrorism.
The “terrorism” label means they can suspend our rights pretty much at will.
There is something we can do, as the article points out:
Read what your retirement money is actually buying, and pull what you can out of target-date funds that auto-allocate into AI infrastructure indexes.
Show up to zoning meetings before the build is announced, not after. The fight is won or lost at the permit stage.
File public records requests on water-use agreements and tax-abatement deals while they’re still being negotiated. Once signed, they’re nearly impossible to reverse.
Sources and Methods:
Data Centers and Immigrants
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/30/ice-immigration-privacy-data-advertising-00939078
Data Centers and US Troops:
