WHAT’S INSIDE THE DATA CENTER?

🚨 What’s inside a data center in 2026? Most people think cloud storage: Gmail, iCloud, Netflix, bank records, hospital files. That’s only half the story.
The new hyperscale AI data centers from Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google, Meta, Oracle, OpenAI, and xAI are not filing cabinets. They’re AI factories. Inside: GPU clusters, large language models, training data, model weights, checkpoints, embeddings, enterprise data, and the prompts you type into ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini, and Claude.
Tonight on The Ryan Samuels Show: data center vs cloud storage, training vs inference, what information AI data centers really hold, data privacy and ownership, national security, and why the United States is in an AI infrastructure race.
Live conservative commentary on AI data centers, big tech, and who controls the data.

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SPEAKER_25 0:48

Good evening, America. Welcome to the Ryan Samuel Show. We have a really good show this evening. We are going to cover data centers. Data centers are the topic, but here is the question. What if I told you the most consequential buildings in the United States are not in Washington? They have no dome. They have no gallery. They have no voters. They sit behind fences, humming in the dark, and they do not sleep. What if I told you they are not warehouses for your vacation pictures? That was the story we were sold. A cloud, storage, convenience, a digital attic for for the family album and the tax return. A harmless place where yesterday's email goes to live. That story is obsolete. What if the new data center is not an attic? What if it is a factory? A factory that does not stamp steel. It stamps thought. It trains machines on the written record of our civil a civilization. Books, code, conversations, medical charts, court files, your questions at two in the morning, and then it sells the answers back to you as if they were wisdom. What if every prompt you type is not a question? What if it is a deposition given without counsel? Taken without warrant, retained without an end date. The Fourth Amendment was written for papers in a desk and effects in a home. The founders never imagined a warehouse in Virginia that could hold the papers of a hundred million homes at once and search them in a second. What if the search is no longer conducted by a deputy with a warrant signed by a judge? What if the search is the business model? Five corporations Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Oracle, and the model makers who rent their floors, OpenAI, XAI, the rest. They do not merely store what you gave them. They still compute on it. They distill it. They keep the weights, the so-called mind of the machine, and they keep the residue of you that made the mind possible. What if the government does not need to build this? What if it only needs to ask or buy or regulate or frighten? National security? The race with China. The emergency that never expires? What if the gravest threat to liberty in this generation is not a midnight raid? What if it is a polite terms of service agreement and a building you will never be allowed to enter? Tonight we ask a simple question the press will not ask cleanly. What is inside the data center? Who owns it? And whether a free people can remain free when the memory of the nation no longer lives in the citizen, but in the machine that does not answer to him. Stay with us. Don't go anywhere. Don't forget, you can call into the show five six one seven eight six, two nine one six. We will be right back. City councils are having meetings left and right. I think, I think we have some videos of them. And it's all about AI. And the reason they're doing it is number one, it's being done locally mostly. By local civil councils, local ordinance, local mayors, local county commissioners are allowing these data centers to be built. And they're allowing them to be built in places where they're using a ton of water just because of how much energy they use and how much heat they produce, and that they have to be cooled down. It really is a pretty scary thing. One of the things that I've actually found out by doing a little bit of research is that they make an insane amount of noise. Here is a video about Virginia where residents are actually like having to put mattresses in their windows.

SPEAKER_04 6:20

Imagine living next to this and having to hear this constant ringing. So, Hari, we're we're at your front door. Yeah. And I mean you look in the distance. There it is. There it is. It's right there in all its glory. There it is, the Vantage Data Center, standing tall with its blue walls, massive generators, right next to the Sterling, Virginia neighborhood. What did you think when they first turned it on?

SPEAKER_06 6:48

Well, we were told in the beginning that it's just they test the generators to make sure they're working in case of an emergency. That is what we were told in the beginning. And then as the year and the months have gone on, they just never turned off.

SPEAKER_04 7:02

They're just never turned off. Hari says they told them the generators were just temporary. That was more than a year ago. The massive data center was never hooked up to the power grid, so the generators are the only source of electricity. You just hear this noise, it's just like you just want to curse. It's that bad.

SPEAKER_24 7:19

Right period also lives right next door. Our concern is property values. Unless we can mitigate this, and we're talking about lawyers with options of what we can do and all that. You know, we know that our we're not going to get the values for our homes that we could have gotten before.

SPEAKER_04 7:38

It's about more than money, it's quality of life. One neighbor here even put plexiglass up against the window to block the noise. And they have their own sound meters to monitor the noise. This is a dashboard that some of my neighbors set up. Virginia is the data center at the center of the world.

SPEAKER_25 7:58

Could you imagine you're just living in your house and then they build this monstrosity across the street from you and run it off of diesel or gasoline generators? With just insane? Like, I would be pissed too. I would be pissed too. But these these data centers, like, look how massive this one building is. So, how much information can you store in one building? How much information are you in storing in hundreds of these data centers across the country? What like what national security measures are involved to protect it from foreign influence and foreign hacking and foreign malicious espionage activity?

SPEAKER_09 8:48

They can build their own power plants as part of their factory so that no one's prices will go up. And in many cases, prices of electricity will go down for the community and very substantially down.

SPEAKER_04 9:00

President Trump's plan to keep the data centers off the power grid is good for keeping electric rates down. And there are positives with data centers. They create jobs when they're built. Of course they create jobs. Create local tax revenue, which helps schools and can help lower. Yeah, taxes, gotta have those.

SPEAKER_25 9:24

That's a good one. They're pretty much inevitable.

SPEAKER_04 9:26

Arguably becoming essential infrastructure. The neighbors here don't disagree and they don't hate all data centers, but think they shouldn't be so close to neighborhoods. What would you say to people in other parts of the country where they hear, oh, a data center's considering coming?

SPEAKER_06 9:41

Do everything in your power to try to stop it from being built in an area that has any residential properties within, you know, 10 to 15 miles of it.

SPEAKER_04 9:54

And the mattresses come in, by the way, Blake. There is one guy who put a mattress up over his window because the noise sometimes gets so loud. Uh, in terms of the data center here, uh, they have said in the past that they're monitoring the noise. They don't believe that they've gone outside the norms or what's allowed within the county here. Uh, but obviously the neighbors would disagree.

SPEAKER_25 10:13

Of course. You expect a data center to come out and admit that they're doing something wrong or something they don't like. This isn't just in Virginia. Yeah, this is happening in Virginia, but it's happening all across the country. Here is this is from a data center in Massachusetts.

SPEAKER_08 10:37

What would you do if a data center moved into your backyard? I am in Lowell, Massachusetts, where a data center is quite literally moved into the middle of town. This is a perfectly normal New England town, and boom, data center. It's just feet away from some residents' properties.

SPEAKER_18 10:55

Yeah, my yard and I'd build water on my head. You know, raindrops like and it'll be from the cooling towels.

SPEAKER_12 11:02

And when they turn them on, the black smoke that comes out of this stack here and the one next to it, it's so bad, it comes up here and it just settles.

SPEAKER_01 11:11

And then she thing that sets off emissions is like right next to my house and it makes like a lot of noise. So it wakes me up in the morning, so I can't really see it.

SPEAKER_18 11:18

But my wife wouldn't enjoy a yard because she couldn't come out, it was too noisy. And for her to go to the car, she had to wear earmups. Like right there, actually. Yeah, you know.

SPEAKER_25 11:30

So the noise thing is cooperated not only in Virginia, but in Massachusetts. And why aren't they on the local grid? Is it because they'll just take up too much power? That's something we gotta find out.

SPEAKER_12 11:42

Yeah, they're they have you have a ratio for sale science on houses in the area. The uh putting the house on the market.

SPEAKER_21 11:50

Now we're leaving. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 11:52

Because of the data center? Yep.

SPEAKER_21 11:54

This isn't what we want. My wife has been here her whole life and was born on this street in 1963.

SPEAKER_08 12:03

One of the biggest concerns that people keep telling me is that the values of their properties may go down now that they have a data center in their backyard.

SPEAKER_12 12:12

People have said, Oh, is that a prison over there? So I do think it would knock down the value of the house. People would come and look at the house and look out the back windows, and they'd see that.

SPEAKER_19 12:23

How about these houses for my son, for him to grow up in it, and for us to build a home? That it can affect the home value, it can affect the water that we consume.

SPEAKER_08 12:36

I am on someone's back porch, and this is their lovely view of the data center.

SPEAKER_25 12:42

It's just like a huge black box that kind of ruins the view.

SPEAKER_05 12:46

Just remember driving by and that big building was there, like a big they're massive.

SPEAKER_08 12:53

Black, scary building. Everywhere I go in town, I keep just running back into the fence. This black, spiky fence. People also keep telling me that they're freaked out by the amount of cameras that are along the fence and can see into their yards and houses.

SPEAKER_12 13:09

And those cameras, I mean, I think they're very invasive.

SPEAKER_01 13:13

It's like four different cameras pointed at my house, and like you can see like me coming out, me coming into my house, and sometimes you can't even see through the window.

SPEAKER_08 13:22

Eileen Castle, who lives in this house but didn't want to be in the video, told me that there was a camera from the data center that she believed could see into her kitchen. Mockley, the company behind the data center, staunchly disagrees with this. They sent me 13 letters from people who are in support of the data center being there. They say that Lowell's always been an industrial place, so the data center shouldn't be seen as out of the ordinary for the neighborhood, that the neighbors are exaggerating the noise and that the cameras can't see into the neighbors' homes.

SPEAKER_25 13:49

Well, if they're exaggerating the noise in Massachusetts, they must also be exaggerating the noise in Virginia and the rest of the country. The noise is just the beginning of the problem. The noise the noise, whatever, it's noise. It's a factory. It'd be no different if they put in a sewing machine factory or a fig Newton factory. Like factories make noise, they're they're producing things. But it's taking over agricultural space, which is concerning for some. So this is Texas commissioner of agriculture, Sid Miller. He is very concerned about data centers in Texas. Let's just hear what he has to say.

SPEAKER_15 14:43

Okay, and then comes this not unrelated but not directly connected story about AI and farmland. If we don't get our cattle supply up, wouldn't couldn't one argue, well, you're doing something with your land, you know, selling it to an AI company that can make money off of it, you know, versus unless we're going to get more cattle, what's it doing?

SPEAKER_16 15:04

Well, uh we we do a lot of that, actually. That we lose about a farm a week here in Texas, either data centers, solar farms, wind farms, housing, parks, airports, I mean, you you name it. So urban encroachment is is getting more farmland than any. Are you worried about these data centers? Very worried about the data centers. We're going way too fast. Here in Texas, the reason they're coming to Texas, there's there's and our counties have no oversight uh ability, so they can just do whatever. If they can pick a place that has no groundwater conservation district and the county has no ordinance, they can do whatever they want. So that's why I called on the governor Abbott for a one-year pause, a moratorium. Let's let's wait, let's let the legislature meet, let's put some guidelines, some oversight on this industry. And September 1st of 27, we'll we'll we'll have a we'll have a handle of this. He refused to do that. Then I called him and said, Well, if you're not going to do that, let's do a special session. You can call the guys in uh and gals in tomorrow. We'll get on this. If it's the only thing on the call, we'll have it done in a week. Uh give it immediate effect. We we can control the growth of this industry. He refused to do that. And the reason he's got a huge conflict of interest, Governor Abbott's taking millions of dollars from the data center industry. I said, you know, Governor, you ought to just give that back. If you truly are flip-flopping and you were big on bringing the data centers in, but now you you're trying to, you know, right before the midterm election, trying to, you know, garner votes by looking tough on data centers, give the money back. He's refused to do that. No moratorium, no special session, has not returned the donations. All right.

SPEAKER_25 18:17

Interesting. Interesting. And I wonder if there's a correlation between losing a cattle farm a week in Texas and with beef prices going so high through the roof that Trump is now importing beef from other countries in order to drive the prices down. If they're losing a farm a week in Texas, 52 times times 50 states a week, that's a lot of that's a lot of farms. 50 farms a week of cow. Of cattle or of whatever else they're raising, gone. And you wonder why cattle prices are going through the roof. Here is Donald Trump bragging about data centers. I don't agree with this. I do not like this at all. I hate it.

SPEAKER_09 19:10

And I can say if I were the mayor of a town or the governor of a state and I had a chance to get a big uh plant in, an AI plant or a data center, I would absolutely want it because the jobs are enormous and the money paid, the taxes paid are just enormous. And if you don't take it, you're gonna be left behind because there are plenty of places that want it. So I would say that maybe it can use a little public relations help. But if I were a governor or mayor mayor, I would want that plant in my and I can say from the horse's mouth.

SPEAKER_25 19:44

So why would Governor Abbott fight him? Why would Republican governors fight him? Sure, it's good, it's great. You got electricians, you got plumbers, you got construction workers, you got data center employees, you're producing massive jobs that are benefiting the entire world. Yeah, there's an upside to it for sure. But the rapid speed in which they're going up under the guise of keeping AI and controlling AI to basically be in a technology war with China and the rest of the world that we have to own the AI space and we have to build it faster and better than anybody. It's it's being done under the guise of safety, under the guise of national security. At the same time, you've got flock cameras all over the United States tracking people's license plates and sharing information with each other, being stored in data centers or anywhere else. Here's Mike Rowe talking about electricians.

SPEAKER_13 20:50

Mike Rowe joins me now. He's the Dirty Jobs guy. Right, Mike, you've met with data center electricians in Texas. They're under 30 and they're making $200,000 a year. They don't have any college debt. Why do you think that some schools dismiss skilled trades as kind of a consolation prize? Why do they do that?

SPEAKER_10 21:11

Two things. The electricians that I've met most recently at a data center in Plano were making $260,000 a year. It's true they had no debt, but the most consequential component of that meeting was the fact that all three of them had been poached three times in the prior 18 months. That's what's going on in certain parts of the country in the electric game right now. It's like the draft in the major leagues. For the second part of your question, I'll tell you this. 16 years ago, this month, I was in DC. I testified before both houses of Congress about the need for some kind of national effort to reinvigorate the trades. That was the first time I said those words out loud, along with the phrase we have to stop categorizing an entire chunk of our workforce as people who have won some vocational consolation prize, because that's what we did. When we put our thumb on the scale for one form of education, right? A university four-year degree, when we said that that was the best path for the most people, we implicitly suggested that anyone with the temerity to embark upon a different path was indeed the proud owner of something second class.

SPEAKER_25 22:39

All of that is true. And I'm glad that people with trades are making money. A ton of money. But that does not mean that data centers are good or are a great idea. It doesn't mean that they're not dangerous to your freedom or your liberties. It doesn't mean that government is not going to use them to further abuse its power. That's that's my concern. And AI serves a substantial threat if it's not controlled. And it has to be controlled by the people. It has to be limited in its scope, it has to have accesses that government cannot access. Because if it can scour everything in a moment's notice. If you take AI and you punch in if you use Grok or Chat BTT, punch in a Ryan Samuels show. It'll tell you everything. Everything where we are, every review, who I am, where I'm from. Where I went to college, everything in a moment's notice. Now imagine the government can do that with every individual, right? I'm a public figure. It's different. I understand that. I'm out in the open. But if they do that to John Smith of Biloxi, Mississippi, who's just a normal average day John or normal average day Joe, and they can search all of his emails, all of his text messages, all of his phone calls, have all of the flock cameras, find out where he was, where he was. But just one person at one keyboard. That's the dangers of AI. And that's where that's where it is already. Imagine where it'll be in 20 years. Here's Donald Trump again celebrating. How awesome it is.

SPEAKER_09 24:39

You can't fight it. You have to go with it. And you're going to have all that protection, and we're giving you automatic protection, but you're going to make a tremendous amount of money, you're going to reduce taxes, and you're going to have something that if you don't have it, everybody else wants it. So these are the smartest people. Most of you, most of you in this room, we have a couple probably on the other side of things. They disagree, but I don't know how they can disagree. Your community and your state's going to become rich, and there's very little disruption. And again, if you don't take all that money, somebody else is going to take it. You might as well do it yourself.

SPEAKER_25 25:15

The ratepayer Again again. He's saying the same thing. That's a different subject, a different time. The Republicans wholeheartedly support this. They support big business. They want to get the economy going. I get it. I understand. I do. I'm not mad at them. Donald Trump wants the best economy in the world. This will help you maintain the status of the best economy in the world. This will help you build on that status even further. This is this the data center situation is producing more jobs, more income, more tax income than any program since probably FDR. Because they're doing it all across the country. Great for the economy. Horrible for your liberty. Horrible for your liberty. Horrible for agriculture. And then you hear why they're talking about they're pushing lab grown meats. It's because we're we're getting rid of all the farms and we can't produce enough meat supply to support ourselves. And then on top of that, we had the border wide open for four years under Joe Biden. We can't afford to feed ourselves, so we have to produce meat in a lab? We have to genetically modify corn syrup and turn it into food. All things to think about.

SPEAKER_20 26:52

Well, everybody is talking about data centers in Texas because Texans are big mad about data centers.

SPEAKER_25 26:58

Good. Good. They should be.

SPEAKER_20 27:03

And so the governor invited them all into Texas with very generous tax breaks, the most generous in the whole country. And so there's now this gold rush of data centers into especially rural Texas. And so Greg Abbott is messaging different, but his actions are the same. He's basically auditing himself. He's writing letters to himself. It's to the agencies where he appoints everybody. Everybody knows that come November 4th, the day after the election, he'll sing a new song, right? The only way we can have real protections in place for people is to pass laws. And so I've called on Governor Abbott to have a special session today. Remember when he had a special session last year on mid-decade redistricting? That's right. Well, the people of Texas have been telling him that we need protections against data centers. He refuses to act in a meaningful way. And so people don't buy it. He is backpedaling on the data center issues, and people see it for exactly what it is. It is an election time political ploy.

SPEAKER_25 28:04

It's not an election time political ploy. This is MS Now, or formerly known as MSNBC. I'm sure you can tell by the images of the cast that they are all retards. It's not that. Let's finish the video and then I'll tell you more about that. Oh, would you pass if you were governor?

SPEAKER_20 28:25

People want to seat at the table so that they can have a say in whether and how these data centers come to their communities. Right now, in these rural areas, they have no zoning regulations. Their local officials have no say over anything with these data centers. So, for instance, they are coming into these rural areas that don't have paid EMS, they don't have paid firefighters, and they're these hyperscale data centers. Somebody was electrocuted building one. They don't even require licensed electricians on site. There are just no rules.

SPEAKER_25 28:54

And so there's all sorts of ways we need to protect Texans against what is happening, but they just to say you don't need a licensed electrician to do the electricity or to at least supervise the electrician is the dumbest statement I think I've ever seen on MSNBC. Carpenter Mikey. I would assume your name is Mike. If you want data centers, put them in the middle of the desert. You're not destroying anything out there. That's a good point. You should probably try to put them where they're not disrupting anything. I definitely agree with that. But Governor Abbott did get massive backlash from Texans. As you should. You should for this, 100%. They're saying he's backpedaling because it's election season. No, he's afraid of Donald Trump. If you're a Republican politician, you are afraid to go after or go against Donald Trump. If he's not going to get his agenda passed, he's going to destroy you. We saw it with Marjorie Taylor Green. We saw it with Thomas Massey. I'm not saying like right, wrong, or indifferent. I'm not. You make that decision by yourself. What I'm saying is that that's not why. He's trying to answer to Texans, but he also has to deal with the backlash of the Republican Party, who wants a strong national economy, who wants to get people back to work, who wants to get gas prices down, who wants to get inflation down. Because the economy is the number one important thing for the midterm elections, for any elections. It's going to be the number one most important thing in the 2028 election, where hopefully J.D. Vance becomes the next president of the United States. That's what it is. Let's listen to this Fox News report about just AI's rapid growth.

SPEAKER_23 31:05

I believe it, Jesse. Let's settle the argument here. Is it data centers or data centers? Because we or Galaxy. I have a new one.

SPEAKER_02 31:12

It's not galaxy castles anymore. Okay. Golden tickets. Golden tickets. Filly Wonka. Everyone wants a golden ticket in their yard, right? Yep. Because these towns have to shake these companies down. Zuckerberg is spending $143 billion this year building out AI infrastructure. And he has a billion-dollar slush fund. They're just gonna throw at towns. What do you want? What do you need? They're giving $50,000 bonuses to teachers in this town in Louisiana. They're going to police chiefs. What do you guys want? What do you guys want? We'll give it to you. Superintendents. Give you anything you want. Let me tell you a little bit about a place called Loudoun County, Virginia.

SPEAKER_25 32:03

Should a private corporation be able to give local public school officials bonuses in order to get them on their side to build AI data tracking centers. No! You're bribing them. You're bribing the police. That's what you're doing. So I've always made this argument and I've gotten a lot of backlash, right? I believe wholeheartedly in capitalism. I believe in individual liberty. I believe in capitalism. But I also believe that once you become a publicly traded company, once you become a public entity and you issue an IPO or an initial public offering, and millions of, if not billions, of people fund you one way or another, right? Say millions of people fund you through their 401k or their investments. You're no longer a privately owned entity. You're a publicly owned entity. You're the same thing as a government. So you should be held to the same standard as a government. You should have the same restrictions as a government when it comes to liberty and restricting speech and spying on people. Nobody in the history of man could ever anticipate technology would get this far. Nobody.

SPEAKER_02 34:02

They just cut property taxes by 60%. You want to know why? They got data centers there and they slap taxes on them, and they're making an extra $1.3 billion a year. They don't even know what to do with all the money. There's like not a single pothole. They're building schools, extra fire trucks. All you have to do is you shake Zuck down Bezos. You say, guys, you want to build a data center? Fine. We're going to slap a 2% tax on it, and it's going to, it's going to be a golden shower of money.

SPEAKER_25 34:41

Does that sit right with you? Because it doesn't sit right with people in the United States. It doesn't. And people are showing up. People are showing up to these cities' councils meetings, and the city council doesn't care. They're getting paid millions of dollars. More money than the city or the county has ever seen in its history combined. They just gave us a billion dollars for this town. We don't care what anybody in this town has to say. But they're using eminent domain. Now, this is one of the things I talk about all the time. One of my questions I usually ask is, Is the con is are parts of the constitutional unconstitutional? And the answer to that question is yes. Now you say, Ryan, how can how can a part of the constitution be unconstitutional? Well, one that restricts or removes somebody's property without due process without being convicted of a crime simply because the government needs it. That would be the second part of the Fifth Amendment of eminent domain. Now, this is an argument that Hamilton made that, you know, we need roads and we need public schools and we we need everything. And we have to be able to take somebody's property if they don't want to sell it to us. That's what these private entities have colluded with the federal government and your local governments to do. We want to put a data center here. People live here. You have to kick them out of their homes and give their property to us, and then we're going to give you fair, whatever fair market value is for the house. Nothing extra, nothing more for your inconvenience. That's in our United States Constitution. It's called eminent domain, the Fifth Amendment. Look it up. It's a horrible atrocity at the Constitutional Convention. James Madison hated it. Thomas Jefferson hated it. Benjamin Franklin hated it. John Adams even hated it. I mean, you could probably call it a compromise. But if you have the right to life, liberty, property, the pursuit of happiness, then that can't be taken away from you. You know what else is your property is your hand. They can't chop it off. But it sets the precedent for the greater good. And that gives the government a tremendous amount of power over you. As long as it's for the greater good, then government can do it. And what will government always do? Make an argument that this is for the greater good, as we have seen Donald Trump do today. Here is a family I haven't watched the video, I just read the title. Being kicked off of their farm from eminent domain for a data center.

SPEAKER_22 37:52

My name is Brianna Rice, Robinson Road. Speaking for myself, I'm 28 years old. While most people, my age, are planning vacations, I'm spending my time for fighting for survival of my cattle farm. I'm here because a massive data center was approved just a couple of miles from my land, project sell, and I'm being hounded by Georgia Power for an easement to build transmission transmission lines through my property for the Fit Data Center. I'm a local farmer, not an industrial developer. These 500 KV lines aren't for me. They are for the data centers that the boards and surrounding counties continue to approve. I have mail from lawyers stacking up on my kitchen table wanting to take my case because they know my land is being targeted for amendment domain. Okay. Let's see. I shouldn't have to worry about the specific wording of a legal contract just to keep my own land from being industrialized. When the Fed data center was first brought up, it should have been brought attention to all that would be impacted. I did not have a voice to speak my mind, and that feels like an infringement on my First Amendment rights. These easements are permanent. They affect my cat ability to graze my cattle, they lower my property value, and they destroy the rural character of this county forever. This board makes decisions to approve these massive, massive projects, but it's residents like me, young people trying to build a life here, who pay the price. You're voting to turn our farms into a network of high voltage wires and noisy industrial buildings. I'm asking you to realize the real world impacts of your votes. Every time you say yes to a data center, you're saying no to a local farmer. We aren't just numbers on a map. We are the future of the county. And right now you're making that future impossible. Respectfully, take that cow off the logo. Thank you. And I do have bigger fish to fry.

SPEAKER_25 39:58

That's supposed to help you. Going to your local city council and your local communities, it's supposed to help you. But it doesn't if they're all being paid off. Imagine somebody took a check so that they will cut a check to somebody else for your property. What if that means you're not free? If the government can come and take your property whenever it wants for any reason, any road, any park, any building. How are you free? The biggest flex on the United States of America has always been that you own your own land. That's something reserved for kings and royalty and noblemen across the world before the United States. We had property. They gave it out for free when they wanted people to move west. You just went and stuck a flag in the ground and you took 40 acres. They were yours. Here's another lady speaking about data centers. Pissed off.

SPEAKER_05 41:28

You have been given so many warnings. We are done warning you. You can either end this project, resign the fact that immediately, or we will take legal action.

SPEAKER_25 41:44

The city God, that was ear screeching.

SPEAKER_03 41:53

Protests have erupted over the last couple of months over the $1.8 billion data center the city's councilman approved to be built.

SPEAKER_05 42:02

You are using an abuse of power, and you are guilty of public endangerment. Because again, it has been factually proven that these hyperscale data centers they poison people, they curb children, and they will accelerate the climate crisis we are all facing.

SPEAKER_25 42:19

Nobody's facing a climate crisis, but okay.

SPEAKER_03 42:22

The data center will be owned and operated. You almost had it, kiddo. Read it by Core Weave, a company that calls itself the Cloud of AI.

SPEAKER_25 42:32

Yeah, that's what I want. A cloud of AI on top of AI, which is a cloud controlled by people whose brains are in the clouds. Here's another MSNow program about Texas. Texas seems to be the heart of this battle, as it usually is.

SPEAKER_17 43:25

Tell me more about this, because that seems to be the complaint a lot of people have, one of the complaints people have, that you're you're giving them these tax benefits, but not really creating jobs.

SPEAKER_00 43:33

100%. It's one of the main complaints, and for a very, very good reason. You know, I've been covering economic development issues going back to 2008, and honestly, that was the last time that I saw people as angry at an industry as they are now at data centers. Back then it was the banks today, it's the tech firms that are building these data centers everywhere. And the tax subsidies are a big part of it. A data center is one of the absolute worst economic development tools that you can have in a community. It doesn't create jobs, as you said. It doesn't create any knock-on economic effects because the only thing that wants to be located next to a data center is another data center.

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I swear, MSNBC, man, they drive me insane. You have this perfect opportunity to be against data centers and be right about it, and you turn it into some dumb comment with the worst voice a man has ever possessed. How could you say a hundred million dollar building is in producing jobs? Somebody's got to build the building, somebody's got to lay the concrete, somebody's got to do the pipes, somebody's got to do the framing, somebody's got to do the electrical. Somebody has to do the employment, somebody has to manage the place, somebody has to be an engineer, somebody has to do the elevator, somebody has to do the stairs, somebody has to do the carpet, somebody has to do the tile, somebody has to do the toilets. And MSNBC's argument against data centers is that it doesn't produce a job because the only thing it produces is another data center next to it. I I never cut videos off. But I'm cutting that one off because it's just so stupid. He's saying the same thing, notice. Like almost word for word. Just this is him out on the tarmac.

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Some people feel differently. I really want them. If a Republicans against the data center, that's okay with me. I will I'm only saying that if I ran a community, now there are different types of communities, but generally speaking, if I ran a community, if I was a mayor or if I was a governor in a state, I would want to have. The data centers because they bring tremendous income. They're clean. They produce their own energy. The new ones are producing their own energy. I would want to have data centers.

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Some people feel this is the classic Donald Trump. And it's great for a multitude of reasons. It's great for a multitude of reasons. Donald Trump has no political philosophy. He is a businessman. He wants to make this place great the way that he feels it should be. And he's not really interested in certain things. He doesn't really get passionate about abortion, or he doesn't really get passionate about gun rights. Him and Pam Bondi had actually said previously that you should take the guns first and then do process later. Take the guns first and then do process later. He's not a massive pro-gun guy. He banned bump stocks on rifles. He is a free speech guy because he fell victim to being banned from Twitter and Facebook and all social media to the point where he had to buy his own social media platform. But as far as a president or a traditional conservative president, like, say, a Ronald Reagan, would stand there and talk about individual liberties and freedom of speech and freedom of the press and freedom of privacy and the right to be left alone. You don't see Donald Trump doing that because he's not really that interested in it. And it's not necessarily a bad thing because what he is doing and how he is pushing these data centers is going to be very good for the economy, and that's what he wants. He doesn't care about the ancillary nuance that gets in the way. He doesn't want to be bothered with it. My college roommate's family farm is now at the bottom of a lake, and they had to sue to be compensated fairly. Guess where a state is really bad about this? So that's the thing about eminent domain. And if you guys are just jumping on now, Eminent Domain, the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, says they can steal your property, and then later you get due process. But the due process that you get later is not that you get to go to court and you say, listen, Facebook came here. My government took my property and they put a Facebook building on it. And then the government goes, hmm. The judge goes, hmm, was that really necessary for the greater good? No, we're giving you your property back. That's not how it works. You argue about the value of the property. That's all it's about. How much is your property worth? That's the only thing the hearing is about with an eminent domain procedure. They take your home, and then the government argues it's worth less than you say that it is after they stole your property for their corporate friends. Truth. But that is true. Fact check me right now. Prove me wrong. You won't be able to. And how do you stop it? How? How could you possibly stop a situation where local city council members who make forty thousand, forty-five thousand dollars a year in small towns, in rural towns, who are paying school teachers thirty thousand dollars a year. That Facebook can't be here after Facebook swore that they're gonna give them a hundred million dollars to disperse however they see fit. They're for the police officers, for the county roads, a new city hall, a new courthouse, a new school, maybe a local college, maybe a coliseum, maybe a sports team. How are you gonna tell a small town city council, don't accept that money? They're not going to. That's why big business and government should be completely separated. Don't forget, this Friday, we have Arnold Jan coming on. Now, Arnold's story is incredible, it's amazing, and I can't believe it's not one of the biggest stories in the United States. He sued multiple judges, multiple lawyers in his family court case out of Texas. Now, he's gonna be here live on the show to tell you his story. I've reached out to the people that he has sued, that he's made these allegations about. They have given me interesting statements. We're gonna go over it Friday. Friday at 9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. It's going to be streamed here, but I'm gonna use Rumble Studio because it's just a little bit more effective. Do not miss out on that. Put it in your calendars now. It's gonna be a huge show. And then we have a very special guest, which I'm gonna announce tomorrow on the show. Don't forget we're live Monday through Friday, 9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Family Court Fridays has officially begun. Arnold Dean is our first guest. I have hundreds of requests for people who've just been completely and utterly destroyed by the government. In family court. There's so many requests, I don't even know if I'm gonna be able to get through them all. But we're gonna find a bunch of them and we're gonna do them every Friday. JD, how are you, buddy? Welcome on. It's theft for sure. It is theft. It is theft. Jefferson was in France at the time as the ambassador to France, and he argued through Madison that the only way property can be taken is if it is voluntary by the individual. Or if it is taken by due process, that I stole your house or I stole your car, and you're telling the court that Ryan stole my car, and I'm saying, no, this is my car, this is my property, you can't take it, and I go to court and I lose, and then the government takes what's my property and gives it back to the person whose property it was to begin with. Eminent domain is a is a very big wrinkle in the Constitution. We should do a whole show on it, honestly. Because it's one of those things you just cannot uncorrect. Mikey says eminent domain should be for government only. Quit stealing people's livelihood and family homes for corporations. If the corporations want the land so bad they can pay, but I will never the the price, I will never sell price. Yeah. If they have all this money to give all these teachers, if your house is worth $400, $400,000, why can't a big corporation come in and say, hey, I'll give you $700,000? Instead of paying off the government, they should be paying off the people, and the people can choose if they want to sell their home or not. I agree with you, Mikey. Glad to have you here. But thank you so much for tuning in. Don't forget to hit that like, share, and subscribe button, and we will see you tomorrow night.

SPEAKER_11 53:55

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