Bipartisan outrage is uncommon these days, so when you see it, you’d best stop and take a look at what it is, who’s selling it, and who or what benefits.
The rear-view mirror bipartisan outrage over the response to COVID is the result of living the damage it did and continues to do. The culprit was globalist stooges, some of whom continue to protect those responsible, like Fauci, who was just covering his own ass. And while instances like these encourage us to put our hands on the backs of their water carriers and slowly walk them toward the truth (that government should never have that sort of authority and the players any sort of immunity), not everyone wants to go.
The latest fake outrage is data centers. AI data centers in particular. It pains me to see people on the right carrying that water because the majority of the buckets and the water are being paid for by the Chinese Communist Party, and its meat puppets on the political and globalist left.
I won’t get into all the finer points I’ve already recently discussed here and here (and here, and here), but this is political espionage on a corporate scale. If our AI isn’t better than theirs, they will eat us for lunch. AI is coming. Commercial AI will be important, but advanced Defensive AI might be more important than the nuclear arsenal. The Chinese don’t want America getting ahead at all, so they are scaring us into believing we need to stop development.
The particulars are irrelevant, but the current animus centers on electric rates and local water supplies. To address this, Mr. Trump has launched the Ratepayer Protection Pledge. The tech industry is promising not only to pay to build out generation capacity and the infrastructure they need to operate, but also to enhance local grid resilience (which is also a bipartisan issue) and to provide excess power to meet local demand.
They agree to hire local workers for construction and plant operation and maintenance. And any and all upgrades to the local transmission system will be paid for by developers to the benefit of everyone.
IN short,
Companies will build, bring, or buy the new generation resources and electricity needed to satisfy their new energy demands, paying the full cost of those resources whether by building, or buying from, new or otherwise additive power plants. Where possible, these companies will also add more capacity that serves the broader public by increasing supply.
The president has invited governors to sign on to the pledge to get states on board and ensure oversight and compliance that meet their state and local needs.
Twenty-three governors have signed so far, not one of them a Democrat. Three Republican governors who have not signed on are Phil Scott of Vermont, Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, and Ron DeSantis of Florida.
Scott doesn’t surprise me given his precarious electoral circumstances. He needs Democrats to vote for him, and the Democratic Party has sided with China on this one. The Left is deep and long on the fearmongering paid for by the CCP, and while Scott is a liberal Republican Governor, he may not yet see a way around supporting it.
Ayotte is a mystery. She’s pro-small-scale nuclear. Has advocated for its development. If you let them, big tech will not only pay for the R and D; they will pay for everything else that gets you local generation and infrastructure we need, or upon which we can build at no cost to utilities or ratepayers.
Ayotte has signed off on finding a path off the New England grid, which is comprised of five nut-job green energy fools and New Hampshire. We’re looking for a way to leave ISO New England. We’ve disbanded the fake green energy commission and pointed the Granite State toward a future not just of energy independence from ISO and the New England grid hogs praying to the EV Gods, but also of being a potential net exporter of electricity to those same neighbors, the profits of which could further reduce costs in New Hampshire.
The Ayotte mystery is, however, compounded by the absence of Ron DeSantis. He’s a bit of a robot, but a damn clever one, and he’s more individual liberty-focused than any other Republican governor at present. And without Trump in his way, he could certainly do better if he ran for president again, but he’d have to do it against Rubio, and that’s going to put him in the same position as last time. Sorry, DeSantis fans, but electability matters. Governor Ron would make an amazing president, and he would also be an amazing AG.
Anyway. I respect his libertarian street cred, and he is willing to try things no one else will. For that reason, I’m wondering what it is about the pledge that has him waiting.
Ayotte, by the way, is not following his lead. De Santis is a very anti-establishment Republican, whereas Ayotte is a governor because she’s an establishment Republican, which tells me the GOPe is either buying or selling the CCP water on AI.
I think that’s helping China on the basis of a lie.
Big Tech and the engineers will not only solve the power problem but are already solving the cooling problem, which addresses the “advertised” water worries.
Oh, and if Democrats are all pissed off about it, whatever it is, we should seriously consider embracing it.
And if you happen to be a Republican who has bought into the fearmongering, I invite you to do two things. Do your own research on who is funding that opposition and those narratives. Invest some time in the technological advantages of nailing small-scale nuclear sooner rather than later, and in the benefits of building out AI data centers for your electric bill and the local economy.
And then remember that if we don’t have defensive AI, none of that matters. Our enemies will just invade our systems and shut down the power and networks we have. That’s not meant to be fearmongering. It’s an incentive to consider the obvious upsides rather than leaning on narratives likely spread by people who don’t just hate America but hate you, liberty, free markets, affordable anything, Western civilization, and actual human rights.
