Transcript of #322 Erin Brockovich - Will AI Data Centers Secretly Drain America’s Water Supply?

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Thank you, Sean Ryan, welcome to be here.

Pretty cool, right on. But, um, so AI data centers, gonna have a right whole episode on it today. Just, guys, I saw some of the stuff that you were uncovering. I don't know a whole lot about AI data centers, the bad side of all this. Yeah, because I've been talking about all the good side of all, but, um, so we're going to dive into all that today. It's going to be super eye-opening. But, um, but I want to start with just saying I really appreciate what you're doing. So I had no idea about the water. Yeah, coming from this. Yeah, be honest with you.

So you and me both. Uh, you know, I, uh, found out about data centers is kind of like, you know, I feel like I'm in such like a time warp in my life right now. And you'll find out I'm kind of that person that's— I don't know, I'm super connected and I feel energies. We are energy. This planet is energy. And I worry that we've gotten so into our phones that we've become disconnected from our natural environment and we're missing a lot. I feel again like I did. It just came out of the blue. That young girl, 31 years old, starting in Hinckley, California, who really didn't know what she was getting into. But I could feel it and I was compelled to want to do something. And that happened with the data centers.

Yeah.

And I got 30 emails from individuals from the same town with concerns about the data centers. So anytime, you know, 10, 20, 30, 40 people at once come to me about an issue from the same town, that's generally a clue something's going on. And I'm like, these data centers, what's going on? Let me take a look at it. So I started looking at data centers and its water consumption. And I'm, I'm a dyslexic, so I do a lot of things backwards in that regard. For me and my work, I always have to go back to source. You know, they say dyslexics read backward. I can read fine, but I calculate and I have to go back to source. Where did it start? What's happening? And I wanted to create a map so I could see the big picture. I'm very visual. I think a lot of us are. And I, I say this with respect because I too have lived in my own bubble, and we get busy in our own lives and we stop looking beyond that. And so when you see a town that's being poisoned, you might think it's just one town.

And it could never be us. But when I can create the big picture, it changes the story. So with the data centers, what I thought was one town, within 72 hours I looked at all the submissions. So I created a self-reporting registry database where they could submit what was happening in their own backyard. I don't know why we wouldn't pay attention to the very people living, breathing, and experiencing these issues as to what the hell is happening in their backyard. And it blew up to the whole country.

How long ago did you start this?

10 weeks ago.

Just 10 weeks ago?

10 weeks ago.

And you— I mean, I, I want to give you an introduction before we go too far.

Sorry, I just jumped right in.

Did I read like you had like 7,000-something submissions?

12,000 submissions. I updated the map last night and we've now pinned 8,000 submissions. So we read each submission and we vet its location. And some people won't have their zip codes in there, or we can't find it, or it's a solar farm with a data center coming, but it's not there yet. So we read each one. So we're a little behind because we're reading it and we're a small group and vetting them. But we're now over 8,000, if not possibly 9,000 pinned on the map, and you just like, you can't even see most of America. There's just so many data centers going in everywhere.

We'll put it up on screen right now.

But so I was very, very surprised very quickly. And again, I'm— I feel like when I stepped out into Hinckley, California, um, I could feel it, uh, and I could see it. I mean, you know, Anytime you see two-headed frogs in green water, yeah, that's kind of a fucked up situation. And I'm not one to back away from anyone trying to tell me what I see I don't see.

Mm-hmm.

And that happens a lot. And I— on the data centers, I don't think we saw the big picture because we're busy in our own bubble. Again, I've gotten that way too. And so you may think it's one isolated place, when it's everywhere. And, and what I'm learning with the data centers is what began with one town became a whole country, and I now have 11 other countries reporting.

So it's 11 other countries. What are those? What countries?

India, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Portugal, Croatia, um, the UK. Scotland, Ireland, and I have to think about what the other two are. It's the whole globe. It's the whole planet.

And, you know, I mean, you've always been an environmentalist, correct?

I mean, yeah, I mean, I think I got labeled that. Yeah.

Let me, let me give you an introduction here real quick. Erin Brockovich, she became a household name after helping expose one of the largest groundwater contamination cases in U.S. history involving Pacific Gas and Electric. That investigation led to a historic $833 million settlement and inspired the Academy Award-winning film Erin Brockovich, where Julia Roberts portrayed you. For more than 30 years, you've investigated environmental contamination, corporate misconduct, and public health issues, helping communities take on some of the most powerful companies in America. Today, you're focused on the rapid expansion of AI data centers, sounding the alarm about their impact on water resources, energy infrastructure, and local communities. You've also launched a nationwide initiative to help track data center development. You're the author of several books including Superman's Not Coming, which examines America's water crisis and the need to protect one of the most vital resources. Man, it's just like everywhere you turn in, in this country and probably in the world, there's some crisis going on. I just watched this movie, this documentary on Nat on Netflix. It's called the, uh, it's about plastics, microplastics. It's called, uh, The Plastic Detox. Have you seen that?

Oh yeah.

In the fertility crisis, are you talking about PFAS, perfluoroctanoic acids? Yes.

And the microplastics. Yeah, we work on that across the country. And you know, there's definitely concern with the data centers and their water consumption.. And they're using PFAS in the coolant, and then that has to be disposed of. And I'm starting to just now get a lot of information in from whistleblowers, some things that I'm not sure I'm liking what I'm reading. People who are managing these facilities that are now seeing runoff and toxic runoff and the chemicals involved. There's no regulations, there's no oversight of any way, shape, or form. This is a free-for-all out there. And so I'm starting to get those— all that information coming in. I'm starting to create the stats, but it's a plethora of chemicals. I mean, we've just become this industrialized country and all these chemicals and our bodies are full of them. Absolutely.

I had this guy, Zach Lan, on. He's running for governor in Iowa. And, you know, he was a big— I think he was a big Baja movement supporter. Yeah. I don't know how you couldn't be. I was too, until I wound up, you know, it seems like it's complete bullshit at this point with the glyphosate. Do you know about the glyphosate stuff?

I know about it. I've actually written some things for legislation out in the good old Kansas, which I meant to say to you because I was born and raised in Lawrence, Kansas. You're from Missouri.

That's right.

I would be the girl that was pulling all the tigers' tails out of the truck. I'm telling you, we would just get into that because I'm such a Jayhawker. But on game night, if you were missing a tail from your trunk, I took it.

Right on.

Just wanted to let you know that.

But yeah, he came on and we were talking about the glyphosate issue. And, you know, I mean, this administration ran on You know, ran on maha, let's make America healthy again, right? Then they give immunity to the, to the foreign glyphosate companies and call it a national security concern. We also label the fentanyl crisis a national security concern. 100,000 people died from fentanyl. 618,000 died from cancer. Cancer isn't even an organic disease. It sounds— that's what I'm hearing. It's all this shit that we have put into the environment that's given everyone and everything cancer. And, and then they give— they give them— they give them immunity. The highest concentration of glyphosate in the country is Iowa. Yeah, the highest concentration of cancer in the country is Iowa. How the fuck is that not a national security concern?

Right? I think I asked myself that question, and I think everybody in the communities asks themselves the same question.

So, I mean, shit, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the cancer drugs are probably also in the lobbying trying to get the glyphosate companies immunity.

Yeah.

So they can treat cancer patients. Like, it's just every— like, everything is for sale in this place. It is. Fucking disgusting.

It is. And, you know, I think I'm observing, especially with the data center movement, because the people are waking up. Something's changing out there.

Yeah.

And you can feel it. There's a shift happening. And I don't know, you know, kind of going back to whether we all get involved in our own lives and then when we see the bigger picture, something happens, we realize that we're not alone. I mean, in my entire 30 years of working, I've never seen a situation that has been bipartisan where everybody's being affected. And I said this morning, I think it was last night or this morning, It's almost— I just, I'm watching this happen with the data centers. I'm working with these people and I just am getting this huge emotion of pride. And I am so proud of them. And I am watching when we are united together. I'm watching them. It's amazing what we can get done. And that is happening here that I, in my whole career, haven't seen, where we're waking up and we're united on the same issue. And that's the very valuable resources that none of us can sustain life without. And these data centers is jeopardizing all of it at once, our land, our farms, our food, our water supply, everything is on the table. And I started the map so I could see the bigger picture.

And as I'm watching people recognize this and people being united and people working and people showing up, like I wrote, Superman's not coming. And that never scared me because I knew eventually we would show up. And they are.

That's good to hear. That's great to hear. It's great to hear people are united on something too. Yeah, I think, I think that's happening more and more every day.

Every day.

Because every day you look, there's a fire to put out. There is a bonfire, a huge bonfire.

And I think we lost ourselves. I'm probably— oh, I'm going to go here and I'm going to get a fucking phone call that goes, oh, I can't believe— why did you go there, Erin? But it's just happening. And I want to share with people sitting here in this room with you. Your photographs and stuff. It's energy. I'm very connected to it. There, there's a vibe in here. There's, um, an openness in here, just, just real transparency. There's just something miraculous that I truly feel in this room. And I'm so compelled as I've watched what's gone on across this country with all of these environmental issues, and it It's gonna bring me to a story, and I hope you'll give me the time to share it. And it's called The Wizard of Oz.

Let's hear it.

Okay, so I'm born and raised in Lawrence, Kansas. I love The Wizard of Oz, the movie. I always wanted to be Dorothy, and I was always afraid of the flying monkeys, but I was fascinated with the film. But I became more fascinated with the book, the original book written by L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz, and that series of books that led to the film. Have you ever read the book?

I haven't.

Well, I hope you go do a big Google dive later today because there is an entire political allegory to the book The Wizard of Oz.

Is this the Wicked series?

No, it's the original book, The Wizard of Oz. And it's been studied by many a great scholar on the political allegory. And I got hooked on this about 10 years ago and I'm like, we are running a parallel and this is the allegory and here is the story. So L. Frank Baum wrote the book The Wizard of Oz at the pre-height of the Industrial Revolution. Pre-height of the Industrial Revolution, as a way to teach his children the power of individualism and thinking for oneself in a world that would increasingly begin to speak for you. That right there stopped me. I'm like, hmm. Teaching your children the power of individualism and thinking for oneself in a world that would increasingly begin to think and speak for you. That's fascinating to me. So, but here is the whole political allegory that's been very well studied. So Dorothy is all of us girls in America that have a dream. You know, I always wanted to run away and move to California, right? So, you know, I left home to go do that. So Wizard of Oz begins at Dorothy in Kansas runs away from home. And while she's run away, she runs into the kind of, you know, snake oil salesy kind of guy when a twister emerges.

And the twister in the political allegory is a representation of disruption in Washington, D.C. And so she runs back home. We know that she gets hit in the head and the house gets lifted up and she lands in Oz. I can't tell you how many times I have felt in my life. I'm like, Toto, we are not in Kansas anymore. It just goes through my head all the time. It's one of the first things that went through my head when I walked out in Hinckley, California. But, and so the house lands on the Munchkins, who are a representation of the mass citizens who are frustrated and thought Dorothy was there to save them. And so she wanted to get back home and they told her to follow the yellow brick road. Well, the yellow brick road is a representation of the gold standard. Follow the path of the money to the sitting wizard who can get you home. Follow the standard of the gold, of the money. Follow the path. And so it goes on in this political allegory about the first person she meets is the Tin Man. And the Tin Man is a representation of industrial workers who will lose their heart.

And the Cowardly Lion is a representation of L. Frank Baum's best friend. It's William Bryan Jennings, or Bryan's— it's William Bryan Jennings, who was always running for populist president, known for his fiery rhetoric but had no courage. And then the Scarecrow. Who is a representation of the American farmer, who at that time, all the banks were buying his land. Therefore, they thought the farmer had no brain. So this is the cast of the American people: the girl next door, industrial worker, the politician, and the farmer. So off they go on the yellow brick road. So we know the story there where the wicked witch comes along and puts them all to sleep. And the wicked witch in the political allegory is a representation of industry that doesn't want you to find out. So they get put to sleep in the poppy fields. Poppy fields. So we know the good witch comes along and wakes them up. And it's on this journey where they get put to sleep that I have paused and gone, huh, I'm wondering if that happened to us. Did we get comfortable? Did we get complacent? Did we buy an illusion? Did we listen to the bullshit?

Now, as they woke up, and I see what we were talking about a minute ago, are we waking up? There's a shift. It's happening. There's something really going on out there. But as you know, they get to the Wizard and they pull back the curtain. And what did they find?

Mass surveillance.

Mass surveillance. Somebody back there pulling a lot of switches and levers and not really certain what the outcome would be either. But here's the thing for me that I think about all the time. The lesson that they learned in the end, we all watched it. See, You had a heart, you had a brain, and you had courage. You had it all along to find your way back. And I'm watching that happening. I get firsthand view on the ground watching this come to life that we, in this world of all this technology that's taking over for us, I think have had a glitch and gone, wait a minute, wait a minute. I know how to think. I know how to feel. And I've lost— and what's in that gut is that courage. It will be up to us, all of us, to make the necessary changes as we move forward into a world that I hope that we can leave and a legacy behind that is every element that we need to sustain life, our land, our farmers, our food, our health, our water, our air. Because without it, it's game over. Yeah. And I just feel this absolute— it's bizarre for me sitting here with you calling.

Something's changing here. And I don't know if it is the pressure of these data centers that are being built to feed this AI engine. And I've always said, you know, use AI for the good tool that it is. It isn't be all, end-all, know-all, everything. And I don't take— I don't listen to half the shit that AI says to me. You should see my thread if I jump on AI, because I like to find out and run little queries what it's thinking. And I'm just like, this is like— that's inaccurate information. That's bullshit. Fuck off. I mean, it's a tool. You have to use it appropriately. But these data centers that are feeding it are going to zap all these necessary resources that I think is really squeezing the people. They're concerned about their water. They know what's going to happen if they lose their water. They're concerned about the destruction of all the forest and the woods and the creeks and the rivers and the wildlife. See, every one of that counts to the whole. And it's just being destroyed. And it's become a push for them that I, I wonder if they're questioning humanity at this point.

And, and if they're going to lose everything, I think they're going to stand up and fight for everything.

I think a lot of people are questioning humanity at this point.

Yep.

In a multitude of facets.

And I think you're going to watch them rise up. I really do.

I hope so.

The stakes are too high.

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I mean, I'm watching him. It starts at a local level, uh it's kind of sad to see that there appears to be a lot of local councils who, you know, are being bought off.

Well, that's what I mean. We're going to get into this. My wife grew up in Boca Raton, Florida, and, uh, used to be— according to her, I never saw it— but used to be a nice little beach town. Not anymore, man. I moved there. I was there for about 2, 3 years, and she would tell me she would go to the, to the city councils, you know, and when they do the votes and try to save like the little bitty, you know, no bigger than the size of this room, little green space that's left. Boom, gone, you know. And, and there would be hundreds, maybe, I don't know, lots of people in these, in these meetings, the citizens that are raising concerns, and da da da da da. And she would say You know, it would just— everybody in that room will be on the same page. Now we want to keep, you know, the old post office or we want to keep this little, you know, 1/8 of an acre park. Like, please don't build another high-rise here.

Right.

And all these citizens would voice their concerns and then they do the vote. And all in favor of the new building say aye. Aye. Like right in front of them, right? You know, and it's just, it's just builders out there just paying off these, paying off the, the city council, taking them on vacation. Hey, let's go, let's go to Aspen, let's have a little meeting in Aspen. Here you go. You know, and it's, it's just, it's the greed, man, the greed.

Yeah, and it, and, and that is what's, what's taken over.

And, and this shit's everywhere, down at the local level all the way up to the White House.

And I used to always say, you know, it does. It begins local. And especially for something with the data centers, begins local because that's where you get your zoning and your permits. And everybody's reporting to me, as you were sharing about with your wife, that they are showing up in huge numbers. But these were done in nondisclosure agreements. Even Microsoft has come out and said, we're going to remove all the nondisclosures. If there's no big secret, then why do you need a nondisclosure? And that was what was bothering every community. In every state that has submitted, every state has submitted to the MAP, the number one thing that bothered them, they said it was like a stealth coming in in the frickin' middle of the night. Nobody heard or knew anything and just suddenly it was passed and their voice didn't matter. Showing up didn't matter, that they were just passed. And by gosh, they've been showing up consistently. And I am actually screenshotting this morning. I should have brought my phone in with me. The people are starting to make a difference. There's been enough opposition. Again, if we talk about one town that has that opposition and shows up and wins, when you have all towns and all people showing up, they're starting to make that change at local levels, state levels.

We've been watching, you know, what even happened in Utah just from the opposition, how a governor had to change its position and reduce the size of what this data center was going to be because the people weren't going to have it. We're seeing more and more and more of that happening across the country. And you now have up to 14 states that are considering total bans, moratoriums. They're putting on pauses. Hold your horses. We need more information. And it's starting to happen.

That's good. And that is 14 states.

I have it all on my phone. So you've got Maine. I have to go grab my phone because it's got the list of what the 14 states are. And you can find that information.

We'll put it up on screen.

Yeah, but you're starting to see more and more of that. And at a local level, they're saying, hey, 6-month pause, they're stopping. We need to think about it. But in the beginning, it was just this nondisclosure and it just kind of blew up very quickly. And everyone— that's what made everyone mad. And I I've shared this so many times. I learned that in Hinckley, California. Communities will handle the truth. They will ask questions. They will sit at the table and they will work with you. But they can never, ever handle the lie. They can't handle the deception. And that was the first thing in the data centers that set them off across the board. Man, you slid it under the table. You did it in the dark of the night. We didn't even have a chance. We didn't even have a voice. And then once they found that out and then they started showing up. So I've been watching its progress from proposal through construction to up and running. They've got a good shot at these proposal stages. And actually, the appellate court just upheld something on the biggest data center that I guess they're now not going to go through or the developer has pulled out.

Due to the opposition.

Right on.

So you're watching in real time our voices. And when we show up— and that's why I got so excited— you're talking the whole country. If the whole country is going to show up, they're going to make some change. And we're starting to see that happening in regards to the data centers.

What are the nondisclosures for?

None of us say chinelle.

Who's signing the nondisclosures?

The city council and the companies.

The city council, they're asking for— how do you even force— is that even legal?

Probably not, but it's been done everywhere. And, and some of your biggest companies— it's Meta, it's Google, it's Amazon— that are building these massive, massive data centers.

So why are these— I'm not— I don't know why. Why are these— I know it's polluting the water somehow. What are the environmental impacts of these data centers?

So it's, it's water consumption. So some data centers can use up to 30 million gallons of water. So they're utilizing all the water from the aquifers, the municipal water. So people with their own wells are reporting that their wells are running dry. They're having to dig deeper because of these mass amounts of water that these data centers require to stay cool. They have to be cool. And so we're losing our water resources and It's interesting. I almost brought this.

We're losing. Where are they putting these?

I mean, so they're—

I mean, I saw the map. I was like, oh, wonder, I wonder where I'm going to move to in 10 years because, yeah, there's very, very few. And it doesn't look like there's nowhere to move to. Well, so the whole country's covered.

Correct. And the whole country is almost in a drought restriction. Well, I mean, and so you're going to consume more of our water resources to keep these data centers cool when there's other options. Other countries are looking at other options than just building them in our backyards. And they're literally in people's backyards. They're massive. These things are the size of 20 Super Walmarts or more. And you're having to destroy all the trees. They need to be near water. They're looking to be on top of aquifers. They need cooler climates, but you're You're putting them in hot climates, you're putting them in drought-restricted states, which is most of the country at this point, expecting a good outcome. And we're just not going to have it. That's our water sources. And AI has to have water to keep it cool.

I mean, I just— I don't understand how that— I mean, are they putting them in Florida? Then Florida— I mean, I don't know about—

starting—

I don't know about out west, but Florida, I mean, you can't— you can't run your sprinkler I mean, you can't even water your grass. Yeah, you know, they're literally worried so many people are moving to Florida, they don't even know how the hell they're going to flush the toilet soon.

We're talking millions and millions and millions and trillions of gallons of water.

What size of city uses $30 billion or 30 million gallons of water?

That's because these data centers are so massive. It's like—

I'm asking, what would the equivalent be? I think I read in the notes it was 50,000— a population— a city with a population of 50,000 people uses that much.

I saw that. Yeah. I mean, you're talking that these data centers are going to use more water than the world would consume. It's ridiculous.

Can you reuse the water?

So you can. So there's— they're wanting to go to more closed cooling systems. And in those closed cooling systems, you still are going to be using chemicals. And here's the thing. That I think there's a window here where everybody can rush in before any regulations start. And we're starting to see, you know, now at a federal level, they're looking at regulations. They want to pass regulations. But right now it's a free-for-all out there. And so these chemicals, there's no regulations about every 2 years when you have to clean out a cooling closed system, where are you going to throw all of those chemicals? This is where for systems that are already up and running, I'm getting whistleblowers on the inside saying that they're taking all that waste and they're just running it down into the sewers. There's no oversight. And they're now starting to get tests where this is very contaminated water. So it's going to be a little real shit show here.

So the city water is contaminated.

So in a lot of city water, it's contaminated and they're using the city water to cool it. Again, is it's just going to regurgitate all that PFAS or what other contaminants are in that water back into the environment. You know, it reminds me of like my dad's a mechanical engineer. So he built and ran pipelines for Texaco all through parts of Texas, Oklahoma, up into Kansas. And he used to always tell me, remember this, Erin, the solution to pollution is not dilution. And I often wonder if that's what they think, you know, taking polluted water and running it through a system and diluting it or dumping it into a river and it flows downstream that will have a natural dilution resolve the issue, and it's not. And so even if the closed cooling system, that water that's recycling in there, eventually they have to clean those systems, they have to release that water. And are there any regulations to look at what chemicals are or aren't in that water before we release it into the environment and down into the drains and just create another pollution issue? We're just— we're doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result.

I have watched this since I began my work in Hinkley, California. I was 31 years old and I am 66 and a grandmother of 5 today. And we are doing the exact same thing over and over again, just expecting a different result.

Are people noticing the— I mean, their water is polluted? I saw something that it's turning brown.

So they are. So they're definitely— and there's a lot of reasons why that could be happening even during the construction phase, because, I mean, you are vibrating the earth. So there are— people with wells are noticing a shift in their water levels, or they can't use their well water at all anymore because the water table is lower. So they're going to have to dig a deeper well. But it does come out. It's very turbid water and it's brackish. It's dirt. It's a disruption to the water system. And so you're going to get this discolored water. Their water pressure is very low. Some people are reporting it's just a trickle. They get a bucket just so they can get a bucket of water. Many people are starting to report water disruptions where they're getting no water at all. People are definitely starting to report these way higher utility bills because all the cost of the water and electricity that all these facilities need We're going to pay for it. We're paying for it. I have people saying their utility bills have gone from— water bill from $40 a month to $800 a month. They've seen their electric bill go from $160 to $440 a month.

I got a notice from somebody in El Paso, Texas, that they got a notice from the municipality to expect a 75% increase in their utility bills.

75%.

Yes.

And so they're passing the on us all the cost of the excess water.

These AIs need energy. They're massive energy sucks and water. And so all of that. And by the way, you're building on an infrastructure and a grid system that needs a lot of help. I mean, we're relying on a grid system we built, what, 250 years ago?

Yeah.

And so this— we're setting ourselves up for a road to nowhere. And people know it and they're starting to show up. And we are seeing some bans, some moratoriums, some pauses. I know that there is some introduction of federal oversight starting to happen. We need more answers about how these are going to work. How much of our resources are you going to take? What expense do you expect to put on all of us as taxpayers? Is it just going to run us into the ground? It can't be done this way. It just can't. And so now that the conversation's here, you are starting to see some more action.

Is this doing anything to the air?

Yes. And so especially a lot of these big facilities and again, you're talking huge diesel, all of these equipment and generators needed to run these facilities during the construction. And the noise, I can't share with you. Every single person, unbeknownst to them, is reporting for the ones that are up and running. The constant 24/7 humming and buzzing is literally driving them insane. There are starting to be reports of mental health issues with people because it's just Mm. And it's loud. I mean, they're, they're saying we're going insane 24/7. The noise, the humming, the grind, it doesn't stop. And it is affecting wildlife. People are reporting to me. There's a farmer in Texas that's reporting since the data center was up and operational, He hasn't had a live birth in 2 years. A live birth in 2 years. Are these high-frequency sounds affecting animals in the womb and as they're being developed? Don't know. But those reports are starting to come out. People are reporting migratory pathways have changed. The animals are gone. The birds are gone. The nature itself seems to be disappearing as they clear all this land. And the water's changing and the water's discolored and the water pressure is low and their electricity bills are going up.

Their water bills are going up. People who have been living around these newer data centers that have been up and running for 2, 3 years are starting to report seizure-like symptoms. Oh, man. Chronic fatigue. So it's out there and they're all starting to report it. And so we're starting to categorize that, running stats on it, putting new information out every week. But for me, it's always about listening to the people. Why would I not? This is in their backyard. Yeah, they're living it, breathing it, experiencing it, showing up. And it's glaring in our face. You know, what are those— what's that saying? A thousand flies, you know, something, don't lie. I mean, when there's thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and tens of thousands of people experiencing the exact same thing from the exact same data center and the construction and the long-term consequences, why are we not listening to them?

Because they don't want to.

We need to.

They're getting paid off, just like we talked about.

Here's some— I do think the people's pressure is starting to work.

That's good. Electricity data centers use roughly 450 to 490 TWh globally in 2025, about 5% of all US electricity, projected to roughly double by 2030 and potentially reach 12% of U.S. consumption by 2028. I mean, the, the grid—

we don't have the infrastructure for this. We just don't.

An average data center uses about 300,000 gallons a day. A 100 MW AI facility runs about 530,000 gallons a day, including the water behind its electricity. About 200,000, 190,000 on site. The biggest hit, 5 million gallons a day, as much as a, as much as a town of 50,000 people.

And some of the facilities use more than the 5 million gallons a day. They had a situation in Georgia where 30 million gallons of water just apparently disappeared. Not sure what happened there.

Most of AI's water footprint comes from everyday use.

And you know, so many people have shared that would be way more, you know, in the know than I, that this type of data center will be obsolete in 5 years and then we'll just abandon them and have, you know, what, thousands of little mini Chernobyls spread across the United States abandoned. I think everybody's starting to really question this. I think one thing that I don't like is these companies are so wealthy, it's ridiculous, and they're buying the land. Are they buying the water rights?

I mean, I just— you're— that's, that's what, that's what gets me, is how do you these companies, like you said, are so well— I mean, a lot of these, a lot of these companies have more money than most countries do. I know, you know, and I mean, according to Polymarket, Nvidia is expected to be the largest company in the world by 2027, largely because of its chips and power the data centers driving the AI boom. Wall Street has trillions riding on that build-out. Continuing, so Be honest with me, what chance does a county commission in Utah or a zoo in Nashville— there's a big one, good, I know there's a big one in Nashville being proposed right now, everybody's pissed off about it.

They've got— I think they've got—

what do they— I mean, how does a local municipality, how does a local— the, the local population combat the most powerful corporation in the world?

Well, the city council—

SpaceX, $1.5 trillion.

Mm-hmm.

And Nvidia is going to be bigger than that by next year. What local politician is going to be able to stand up against that or resist that kind of a bribe?

They aren't. But the people can. And that's what's starting to happen. You know, I should go grab— like, I brought some notes and my phone and stuff. You are starting to see local opposition And even the big situation up in Utah, I believe Kevin O'Leary was out there and they got enough pushback that the governor came in and said, you know, this can't be 100% of anything. We're going to knock this project down by, you know, 80%. Oh, really?

I didn't realize that.

Because of the people's opposition. And you're seeing more governors and more city councils like, I believe it was in Festus, Missouri. Hey, You vote them in, vote them out. So in Festus, Missouri, they voted them out. In the midterms here, I guess the Republican that was Speaker of the House up there in Utah, he lost. So because of the opposition, and it's just, as I said in the beginning, and I've never really seen anything like this in my 30 years of doing this type of environmental work. Such a rise of the people. Yeah, on this issue. And they are starting to turn that tide. And I believe that these local council members, because they're just voting them out— just be careful how you're voting over there because they're going to vote you out— they can't say no to the money coming in. And I don't think they expected the opposition from the people showing up, and then that's where they're going to lose their seats and they're not getting voted back in.

Well, what happens—

that becomes a game changer.

This is what— this is what happens is, you know, these, these people are sneaky. They fund, they fund both sides, you know what I mean? They dump, they dump a couple million in the Republican side, they dump a couple million into the Democrat side, you know, they, they dump a couple million into the primaries you know, and they're like, all right, we'll sprinkle this all out through all of these people. That way they're all controlled. And then whoever wins the primary, they dump another pile of money into that side, and they dump another pile of money into this side. And you got a Republican versus Democrat that are both being paid off by the same corporation. Yeah, you know, and so that's— that's— that's— that's— how do you combat that?

Well, We're starting to see that again. I should pull it— it was up on my phone, an appellate court decision. But what's happening is the companies are pulling out because of the opposition.

Interesting.

They're pulling— some of the companies are pulling out. So there's— and it— again, we've got quite a few. I believe it's 120 municipalities now that have on some form of pause, moratorium. Uh, in California was Monterey Park put a total ban, a total ban on data centers. So I believe about 107 municipalities thereabout— we could probably run those numbers pretty quick— are now pause, moratorium, partial ban, or a full stop. And so it's becoming concerning enough, I think, for everybody at some level.

I know the people here, and we should be—

you're talking a depletion of all of our natural resources. Okay, let's, let's go there. So you got no farmland, you got no water, you're in full-on drought, you're going to have no food, famine. This is a road that leads us where? To nowhere. I think everybody sees And that's why I think that they're really starting to rise up in the best of ways. They are learning their information, they are gathering their communities, they are showing up, they're asking questions, they're, they're getting very involved in a strategic, organized manner in huge numbers, and they're, they're relentless. They're not showing up and going away. They are showing up. They're showing up at courthouse steps at a state level and they are making changes. And whether that pressure is on city council or they're voting city council out, or that pressure is on the state or a governor, or even in a situation where you just had the biggest, biggest one yet, the developer pulled out. Due to the opposition of the people, right? Because that'll backfire on him.

Let's, uh, let's take a quick break if you don't mind. Grab my— yeah, perfect. That would be great.

Okay, cool.

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Yeah, and we list stats inside the map so you can go and, um, look at what, you know, those stats are. Um, So one thing that I had pulled up this morning was— okay, so we were talking about at least 14 states are considering bans or temporary moratoriums on the construction of new data centers. Uh, Georgia, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Oklahoma, So these are all the ones that are going to ban it.

There's—

we're talking about at least these 14 states are now considering bans or temporary moratoriums on the construction of new data centers.

I didn't hear Tennessee on that list.

Nope, I don't see it on this list. So, uh, then this morning, uh, San Marcos just made history by becoming the very first city in all of Texas to completely and fully ban new data centers from being built within its borders. So they are getting some local control in certain counties where it's like you're out or you're on a moratorium, 1 year, 2 year, or bans, uh, delays. Um, developers remove data center from Midtown project. So in this one in Milwaukee, we stopped the Midtown data center. Now it's time to keep up the pressure. So they've got a temporary moratorium. And then today, a plan to build the world's largest data center is dead after 3 years of local opposition. Blackstone's QTS has dropped its Virginia Supreme Court appeal to build the world's largest data center. Wow. So, so these are all successes. These are all successes. And successes are definitely starting to mount. It's almost like it's gaining speed. And as again, I think as we all see the big picture, because it was so quietly just sliding in, you know, state by state and local council in these obscure places where, you know, it's pretty hard for— oh, come on, IT big gurus, you're going to snow over, you know, 3 aldermen.

I mean, it's pretty unfair fight.

Yeah, the Utah thing is a complete joke.

And you're seeing this happen in all these other counties, and it's hard for them to turn away the money. And it's when people— and some of those stats that I was talking about, if we go to the website, that enraged them in the beginning was these NDAs, these nondisclosures. They're like, we didn't even know. All of a sudden they're breaking ground. We didn't have a voice. We weren't even informed. And then when we do shut up, they walk out on us. We get thrown out. We're not put on the agenda. You've got 30 seconds to talk. If you talk over 30 seconds, you're escorted out. I mean, it's like they're just shut out and they're very, very frustrated and they're, they're showing up. And so we are starting to see and I see it more because, you know, I'm watching the news every day for it. More and more wins for the people. What—

it looks like you have a litigation strategy here.

Who, me? Well, there— what are you talking— what are you referring to?

The Hinckley playbook scaled up. Document individual harms. So what do we have to do here? We got to get rid of the NDAs.

Oh, we're doing— well, so it's, it's what the people are doing. You know, it's never about me. It's always about the people. I didn't do Hinkley alone. And I've watched a phenomenon with moms. So in Hinkley, California, it started with, you know, a woman, Roberta Walker, and Roberta Walker and I become a force and we find 4 and 5 other mothers and then 10 other mothers. And then we all start sharing similar stories. That they become a real strong unit, if you will. And I have learned you start pissing off the moms, you better look out because that pissed off mom's going to go find 10 more and they're going to go find 20 and then they're going to go find 50 and then they're going to go find 100. And then I find myself being their biggest cheerleader. And that's kind of what happened with the data center map. Is they could see each other. And there's power in knowing you're not alone. And I've seen these communities, you know, who show up to city council that are dismissed. They're being dismissed now or suppressed or, you know, when I started my work in Hinkley, this is what I always heard.

You're not a doctor. You're not a lawyer. You're not a scientist. You're not a politician. So what is it you know? And why should you even speak? And I was always gobsmacked at that. I was like, are you fucking kidding me? I don't have to be any of that to be a human. And to tell you what I see and those two-headed frogs in that green water is wrong. Is wrong. And I think there's, again, this wake-up moment. And it is back to the very basics, the very principles of what it is that we need in humanity to sustain life. I'm worried about my grandchildren. What legacy are we going to leave to them? We cannot sustain ourselves with just AI data centers and no water and no farmland and no sanctuary, no wildlife. Noise pollution, air pollution. What do we think is going to be the end result here?

More cancer. More cancer.

And these communities are already— you've really cornered them now. Is there any— And they're cornered enough that they're really going to stand up. And it doesn't have to be this horrible way that we think we're going to stand up. They're organizing, they are thoughtful, they're getting their facts, they're getting their information, they're making their business to understand it, because I think we've always been taught, well, the everyday person can't. Bullshit. Yes, they can. And that's what they're learning. And so they're taking their united front armed with facts and information and evidence, videos of the water pressure going down, or the famous— I believe AOC held up the water and we brought that water. And special for you folks, it's from a well in Hinckley, these actual moments. Events that make it real and make it tangible that I think we're all starting to see and feel.

Do you think it's important that we continue with the AI race?

Well, there's some of that, you know, the, the genie's left the bottle, and this com— this— not this conversation, the data centers is what's feeding that beast. Data centers have been around for quite a while. They've just moved out of suburban areas into, you know, the huge landmass. It's like a land grab. It's like a water grab. It's like— it feels like very much of a takeover. But we've been functioning with this AI and data, and we're all on our phones and utilize it and appreciate it for that.

Um, I mean, I'm just asking. I mean, President— or I'm not President Xi, you know, China has— they even say, you know, the, the, the country that achieves the, the wins the AI race first is going to achieve global domination. And so how do, how do we participate in that in an environmentally friendly way? Is— are there any countries that are doing this right? Is there, is there a right way to do this? Is there another avenue explore other than just—

NVIDIA is definitely exploring it. And I'm like you and a lot of other people just learning about what some of this new solutions would be. You can find many articles. Um, China, for example, has created, um, like tubes, and all the AI infrastructure is inside there, but they've set them at the bottom of the ocean floor.

I saw that. I wasn't sure if that real, or—

I've been reading many articles and talking to many people.

China is now becoming more environmentally friendly than the United States.

And my understanding through articles and reading is they have regulations, and there are none here. There's conversations about putting AI data centers— they need to be in cooler climates, so why would we not be putting them— some people say, why are they not down in Antarctica? Why are you doing it in the United States of America, in our backyard, in drought-restricted areas? Some conversations are about putting them on barges up in the fjords where it's cold, cool, plenty of water, and using wind power as your energy source. I've read many articles about NVIDIA that said soon they would have AI data centers that were small enough to sit on the side of your home like your air conditioning unit.

I mean, the, the power thing has been solved, but it needs legislation. I mean, my friend Isaiah Taylor, who, uh, at Valor Atomics is making mini, like, mini nuclear reactors, you know, specifically for, right, data centers. But, you know, but, but because they— legislation to, like, unleash it, you know, and then that would relieve the power grid. But, but the water thing, I don't know. I mean, it sounds like the China thing. I've seen those pictures. I've read— I wasn't sure—

I've read a lot, done a lot of research, talked to others, and, and they definitely have regulations and are not putting—

you're not supposed to have them on. So is this administer— is there any talks of regulation? Is this Is the Trump administration planning on doing anything about this, or?

Well, I think it's definitely gonna happen. I believe Bernie Sanders has started to introduce some type of legislation. So I'm seeing all this stuff get thrown out at the same time trying to just track and keep my submissions and my stats current. But it's gonna have to happen. And I think because it's like the gold rush, you just rushed in here, that you really startled everybody. What did you think? Are going to notice. Why? And I think we're going to get to where we need to go. And I think it's imperative that we stop this process before it's too far regarding these data centers in order to get where we need to be. And it's going to have to have— you've got to have to have some type of regulation. You're going to have to have some type of oversight. And I just certainly don't think that you could have 3 elder council members in Utah or in any one of our other city councils throughout the United States withstand the pressures of these large companies.

In Utah last year, they had a big thing. We got involved where they were going to try to sell public land. I wonder if that's going to become the next, you know, and they wanted to sell public land and turn it into I can't remember, turn it into low-income housing, or I can't remember exactly what it was, but people were— all the ranchers, farmers, uh, people that enjoy the outdoor— outdoor enthusiasts, fishermen, hunters, everybody was— environmentalists— so everybody was pissed about it. And, uh, we did a big— we did a big thing on it. They shut it down, um, actually that day. But I wonder— and, and this has been going on for a while. I think it's Senator Mike Lee out of there is the one that keeps kind reintroducing it. But, um, or maybe he just introduced it this time. I don't know. I mean, like I said, I don't— these politicians, I think, whatever, they're all the same. They're all bought. But, um, you know, I wonder if a lot of— a lot more of these states out west are going to start being influenced to put public land up for sale.

They could be. Um, something just popped up today out of Oregon, um, actually was regarding Pacific Gas and Electric. And again, I was up pretty early this morning trying to grab down some of the news, so I don't know if I had that one. Um, we just also had that appellate court decision, and that was— it was a big one. And even watch the developer on that leave. That was Blackstone. Who was that? I just read that to you. Uh, San Marcos had a huge victory today. So state community by community, county by county is starting to hold them back. I feel like a cheerleader pushing back, pushing back, way back. So, you know, that old song in certain counties. So you're getting certain counties in certain states that are getting pauses, moratoriums or bans, and then cities. And it's just kind of now spreading out across the country where we are seeing progress and we're winning some and we're not winning others. But the people continue to show up. And we're definitely having— there's obviously a larger conversation about having regulations, and other countries do. I don't understand. I don't think anyone understands. What is this push?

What is the secrecy? Why is it happening across the country? Why does it have to happen so fast? What are we doing? Mm-hmm. Greed. And so, you know, for me, I didn't vote for Meta or Google to own the water.

Me neither.

I didn't vote for you. And so I think that there's definitely that pushback and everything that we've been talking about is ever so present. But it, they almost, it almost just like secretly felt like an invasion in each little county, in each little crevice, in each little place they across could and And it was somehow midstream, people started going, "Oh, wait a minute, this just isn't right." This is just that moment that I had that I think everyone's happening, that you step into it and you don't always know why, Sean. You will know though, you know. It's intuitive, it's instinctual, it's guttural. It's the moment it's like, "Ugh, I don't think that's right. I just don't think that's right." And then when another neighbor and another neighbor and then 10 of you unbeknownst to each other shows up at city council and all of you think it isn't right, like something's not right.

But this says this is gonna drive inflation up, the energy consumption. Who pays for the grid? March 2026, the Trump administration and big tech signed the Ratepayer Protection Pledge. Companies promised to cover new power infrastructure costs instead of passing them to ratepayers. Enforcement is unclear, and retail power prices still rose 2.3% nationally in 2025 to 2026. With data centers cited as the primary driver. Goldman Sachs data center electricity demand will add about 0.1% to core inflation in 2026 and 2027, hitting the Mid-Atlantic and the Midwest states the hardest.

And I think you're going to see more and more stats like that start coming out, and we are— and again, people reporting it at a local level, that's whether it be their utility bills or their water bills or what type of pollution they're finding or the lack of regulation that they have, what that future could look like. And this is where I think you're now starting to see legislation, everybody waking up and going, what the hell is going on out there? I mean, I have mayors and city council members and lieutenant governors and ag commissioners reaching out to me. I'm like, oh my God. And so you don't know this is going on in, in your own backyard. It's, it's, it's amazing to me how this got through. And all of it was with non-disclosures.

Disclosure. Google is the most transparent. 7.8 billion gallons withdrawn, 6.1 billion consumed in 2024 alone.

See, that's staggering. And multiply that times How many centers?

Yeah, I mean, if you take, you know, Google, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, Groq— I mean, I wonder what the combined wealth of all those companies is. I'll bet it's bigger than the US.

Oh, it has to be, you know. That's— it got to be ginormous.

And it— we're carbon offsets, paying for green projects elsewhere. It is not restored. So they're So it's another marketing scheme too. Yeah, whether they're investing in—

what's that? They almost got away with it, maybe. Yes, you know, um, so a lot of people don't like AI. Um, I certainly don't like the data centers that have to feed the beast that is going to take all of our resources. I will use it for a tool, and it can be an effective tool But you also have to remember you're talking about a machine. And a lot of times you'll watch in the law or in my work where you can take their own data and use it against them. You know, back in the day, you know, P. Genie would have a data set, but I would be able to go find another data set that contradicts the dataset that they had just used and how they were doing their calculations. And so I found this very interesting, got on AI and I asked it a question. And that bothers some people, but AI somewhat left the genie in the bottle. AI has been around for a while. We're all on our phones. We all know it. And if you want to stop using your phone, that's fine. But it's something we've become dependent on.

But I did get on there and I did want to share with you of this, and I asked AI, you are AI, so you tell me where you would put all the data centers in the United States. Oh boy. And the response was, if I had to redesign the entire data center network for the United States from scratch, I would place them based on one one single rule: zero conflict with human resources. And that really struck me. This AI that we think is going to be all know-all, right? And I'm sure it can be extraordinarily useful in some situations. You ask it and it spits back to One rule, one rule about the data centers. Zero, zero conflict with human resources. I find that fascinating.

It is. It's not getting paid off.

So it's an interesting time to watch what's going on. And we're trying to just take in— there really is no self-reporting registry databases out. And I created Community Health Book many, many years ago because the only place people could report individually that something that they thought was wrong was, you know, to their own local health departments, or they got no response, or because of HIPAA, nobody could else share that information. So it's been an eye-opening experience for me when I did Community Health Book and then when I did this data center map. It's a place where people can and they're willing to report and share what's happening to them or the symptoms that they're going through. That helps create a dataset that we've never seen before. I remember being on a radio show regarding chloramines in Missouri with a scientist, and that scientist said to me, let's be honest, Erin, you don't have all the datasets to prove that this excessive chloramine use causes those diseases. I said, you're right, I don't. But here's what you haven't thought of. You don't have all those datasets either to conclude that it doesn't. Yeah. Yeah. And that's happening again.

And you— we're going to come out and make all these assumptions about data centers and the loss of water or the noise or the air pollution or all of the issues that we've talked about, that it can't harm you. But as these people who are living, breathing, and experiencing it self-report, you can start seeing a data set that, A, they all have something in common. Every single person in every county, in every city throughout America that's reporting this is experiencing the exact same thing. And they're all starting to— on those data centers that have been up and running, different types of health issues. We're definitely now getting some tests. We're definitely now starting to see pollution. We're starting to have reports of people who have pacemakers. I had a woman reach out to me that was in Vegas, lives in Michigan, visiting and went past the big Switch data center, not knowing what it was. She thought, oh wow, the lights, it looks— well, what, the Emerald City? How lit up and pretty is that? But she started noticing immediately that her chest started burning so bad that she was— it was like burning through her skin, her pacemaker.

And she went into AFib. And the frequencies and the data, all of that vibrations All of that. And this— now I've seen multiple reports of that. Now they're starting to look at the EMF and the electromagnetic fields. What is— these are huge data sources, huge, huge energy sucks. We started this conversation, at least I did when I got here today. We are energy. This planet is energy. Your environment is energy. Water is energy. It's all energy. Energy. These data centers and what energy that they need to survive will take all of these resources all at once. Not just water, not just one city, and not just a little electrical. You're talking the whole grid. Yeah, you're talking the whole infrastructure. We're talking the entire water supply. I mean, it is very concerning, and that's why I think that we're seeing so many submissions and we're starting to have this conversation and everybody's starting to pop their head out of the hole, whether it be legislatively or Republicans or Democrats or House representatives or senators or local legislation or state. What are we doing and what's going on? And I think it's— we're headed the right direction by saying we're going to take pause.

Stop, pause. What's the pause? What's the moratorium? We need more information. Where are you gonna get your electrical from? Are you gonna build it yourself? You're gonna build it from scratch? You're just gonna attach to already antiquated infrastructure systems that, that won't work? What about the water resources? Where are those information? How big is the facility? How many millions of gallons of water will or won't you need? And you're talking about if we had facilities like that, multiple, in every single state across the union. You just do the math on your biggest centers that use 30 million times how many, man. So it's a huge drain on all of our resources.

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We've had data centers around for a very long time. They're more in suburban areas and they're smaller. I mean, we've been on our phones and our computers and the cloud and stuff for quite some time. I mean, that's not a new phenomenon to any of us, but this data center build-out, there's been some up and running for— but are smaller— for decades. But the newer big ones, they've been up and running for about 2 years. You're starting to see the impacts of that. I'm starting to see some of the reports, but it was— I think it just kind of blew up very recently, this huge surge across the country within the past year of proposals. So most of who people are reporting that are getting the pauses and the moratorium is they caught them in the proposal stage. Somehow they found out, wait a minute, how did that get passed us. There was an NDA. That's where you're seeing people really rally and they're getting pauses, bans, and moratoriums at a proposal stage. Then there's some already in construction. And during the construction phase— and we're showing photos and people are uploading their photos— um, it's so dusty you can't even see.

This is where they're noticing their lights go on and off. Somebody reported, I believe it was out of Oregon, their power went down several times for 3 days. They had no access to water, then the water would come on. So a lot happens that's extraordinarily disruptive during the construction phase. And then you have the ones up and running. So I think at the beginning, which we're seeing the beginning across the country where we're watching communities push back, and then the ones that are under construction, some of the companies are pulling out due to opposition. And others are pushing forward. They're trying to get it stopped. Some construction, it gets stopped for 6 months and then they continue. But when they're up and running, that's where we're seeing reports about the cattle, no live births, where we're starting to show health impacts, where whistleblowers are sending reports to me that are on the inside that know that they're getting test results back and they're finding PFAS. They're finding it now in the storm drain, or they're bleeding out a cooling system after 2 years with no restrictions, no oversight, and where that's going. So these reports are actually starting to happen.

So I think it happened just quick enough, maybe not fast enough. And I think you're going to be able to hold some back, and we're going to unfortunately have to go through some. And I don't know if we can lessen the pressure, or again, there's other solutions, there are other options. Other countries are doing it, other countries are talking about got it.

It must be more expensive to do it that way.

Well, boy, isn't that the truth. Geez, it's always about— and I've talked about on like our infrastructure and even our legislation, and it makes me think of the old Ford Pinto theory. Do you remember that case? No. In Michigan. So the Ford Pinto built the, the car, the Pinto, and the gas tank was at the And so if you got rear-ended, the car blew up. But there was a decision made that it would be cheaper to not fix the problem and run it down the line than to fix the problem. And so they sacrificed safety to feed its shareholders and ran it down the line. And it became kind of a law that everyone followed. And it was called the Ford Pinto Theory. And if you really study our infrastructure in these companies, if they would do the right thing on the upfront, which is going to cost them more money, but it would be infrastructure and safety on the upfront. And yes, it's going to cost you more money. You can still run a profit to your shareholders, but if you did it the right way, your long-term yield would be greater. Yeah, but they don't want to change that model.

So be damned safety and infrastructure on the upfront, because we'll run it down the line, and it'd be cheaper to face the lawsuits than fix the problem. But these environmental lawsuits aren't settling anymore for $333 million. These big fire cases are settling for $35 billion. And so I don't think that if there's a corporate model of the idea that to save a buck, run the problem down the line for the shareholders, is going to turn out so well. It'd be cheaper to face the litigations because these litigations are going to turn into billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions of dollars. Why would you even want to do that when you could do the right thing on the upfront and spend a little more money? But in a long-term yield, do you really guys want to get sued? I mean, let's talk about the PFAS litigations or the expense that the glyphosate could have done. You're talking billions, billions, billions. Why do you just keep wanting to throw that Why? When there's a better way, a smarter way, may cost you a little more, but in the long run, it'll be a huge savings.

And that's why I say the yield will be greater. You'll have a healthier America, healthier people, less disease. You'll still have a company and you'll have all that money that you're going to blow on billions for litigation. It just doesn't make sense to me. Me neither. And so I think about that.

Hopefully that does happen. Hopefully, hopefully, you know, the Trump administration doesn't just give them immunity like they did for the glyphosate companies. Maybe that's what they're waiting on. They're just holding out, lobbying, hoping they get some kind of—

yep, lobbyists, they're, they're a big thing too. And it is very political. And I, again, I'm sorry, call me a broken record, but I'm going to go back to that Wizard of Oz thing.

You're definitely on to something there. Did we get comfortable?

Did we get complacent? Was it an illusion? Did we buy the bullshit? And is there just a moment here with all the lobbyists and everything that were going on and these data centers is the breaking point that the risk— there is no reward here if we just keep on this path. And it's too much for humans to bear. You are on the brink. You're pushing them on the brink of the loss of humanity. We have— what are you going to do if we have no water supply? You're going to ration it out? I mean, how are we going to afford these electric bills, especially if we— AI is supposedly going to take over all of our jobs. I mean, It's too much. And I think that at once it's hitting, and you're watching the rise of American citizens who have said it's enough. That's good. And I think they're showing up.

What do you advise for somebody that's listening right now? How can they get involved? What can they do?

Ask questions. Talk to your neighbors, organize your neighbors. You'll find out that they're usually concerned about the very same issues. And this is why I usually see moms as really big advocates, because they'll start talking to other moms in the schools and they'll start noticing patterns. These patterns can tell you a story. But I— and, and they're doing it already, that at a very local level, and they may know they're small but for their own city council. Have you ever been to a city council meeting? Go, because there's no one there. These council members are just in there talking to themselves. But these council members sure as shit do not know what to do when hundreds and hundreds of you show up. They don't have an answer. But get organized, get to know your community, get your facts. This makes me think of a situation that I talked about in my book, Superman's Not Coming, with the moms of Hannibal, Missouri. And they had a chloramine contamination and they had lead levels in their water higher than what we were seeing in Flint, Michigan. And it was a group of a couple of moms and we got involved.

We gave them some tools on how to put up banners or have little meetings at their own house where 10 mothers would show up about these lead problems due to adding chloramine to the water. Water. And these can be really complicated scientific calculations, but it goes back to the suppression I got and the suppression that I have seen in every single one of these town meetings or local council. They want to speak, but they're told they shouldn't speak because I'm on city council and, oh, you don't have a math degree or you don't have a science degree. And all of that gets poo-pooed and we just kind of recoil and retract and move away. Maybe I shouldn't speak anything. And so they don't show up. But these moms wanted to know. They were worried about their kids. And so they organized and they started going door to door informing everybody in town. Hannibal, Missouri, home of Mark Twain.

I know. I know Hannibal, Missouri very well.

Yes. They informed— they made it their job to try to understand chloramines. They were doing little mathematical calculations on their drywall inside of their house. But what they did was they informed themselves, then they informed others, then they informed the community. So what happened was the women wanted to do more and they had local elections coming up and one of them decided to run for office and she won. At a city council level. So what she did was a referendum and put it out to vote to the people. Put a vote out to the people. Do you want to continue adding chloramines to the water system? Yes or no? Well, now that they knew what it was, now that they were educated on it, the town voted no. We don't want chloramine. So she wrote legislation, introduced it to the state of Missouri, and they passed a bill and banned chloramine. Marines. No kidding. As of March 20th, for the city of Hannibal, for the city of Hannibal, uh, they now have lead-free water. That began with one woman who informed another, that informed a community, and it was just the momentum of saying, you got this, you can do this, or somebody else in the room that may be a mathematician that can explain something to you in layman's terms so click, you get it, that they make these changes.

And I think it's just been too much on so many people who, you know, not all of us are scientists or, you know, mathematicians, but we know. But as soon as we try to speak out, you get that little bit of, ah, you're not this or you're not that. They want to intimidate you so you don't talk. And they go away. And they go away. They want to intimidate you. And the stakes are too high right now. And they're learning too much. And they're asking questions. And here again, let's have that conversation. We're all on AI. We're all on Google. I don't know, maybe they're going in there and asking the right questions and it's given them the answers they need. Yeah. Yeah.

That gives me hope. I like that story.

Yeah. So do I.

That is a good story. And I'm from Missouri, so I like it even more. And I know Hannibal.

I didn't live there. And we're watching that, you know, even the mother's of Flint. They wrote to us a year before anyone in this country knew what was happening in Flint. It started with small reports from a teacher or an observation with the children or the mothers noticing the kids taking showers and they were losing too much hair to one of the local doctors, noticing too much disease in one town. They want to report it, but at some higher level, it just It's— the door just gets shut. We don't want you looking here.

So keep after it. Yeah, keep after it. I got a hot question for you.

Hot question? It's called the hot question.

It's a new segment.

Am I supposed to be scared? No. You ready?

Yes. Aaron, a while back I had Peter Berg sitting across from me, the guy who made Painkiller, about Purdue and the Sackler family. He called them the real Pablo Escobar, putting up numbers much larger than the Medellín and cocaine cartels. And here's where it stands today. OxyContin helped fuel an epidemic tied to more than 800,000 American deaths. The Supreme Court threw out the deal that would have shielded the family. This April, Purdue was sentenced to $5.5 billion, but not a single Sackler has ever been criminally charged. Yeah, so from everything you've seen I mean, who actually gets held responsible for all this? Are these people untouchable?

That's a great question. And, um, yeah, maybe if more criminal charges were filed versus, you know, money and monetary, it would stop. But there never is. But I would like to see any— you know, none of us, I don't think, want to have to face a 25-year prison sentence or whatever it may be. But we often don't do that. And this is where kind of in the beginning we talked about changing laws, antiquated laws and regulations, and how those need to be updated. You know, we created laws for something way back when, and here we have this bigger problem today. Maybe somebody should start looking at exactly what that question was. Should we be looking at criminal laws, um, criminal charges on corporations?

Do you think it'll get to that point?

We might. We keep asking those kind of questions. Somebody might. But again, and I was talking outside with some of your people earlier, it's going to take— there's attorneys out there that that have to rise up to the challenge. You know, everybody's in it because everybody needs to make money, right? Um, and there may not be a big payday changing a legislation that, that does something differently or handles it the right way, but they would have to get creative in their law. What would be the charges? Um, and they would have to have the evidence, but they're also going to have to have the legislation and then get something passed to change a law, to create a I went through this with Ed Mazary when we first began Hinckley. I had already been out in the community for close to a year, and Ed was really financially struggling to keep this case afloat. That's when he brought in some other law firms, but before he found those firms, he was trying to borrow money, and other attorneys were telling him, "Ed, you're not going to win this case because you have a statute of limitations problem." So one afternoon, Ed called me into the law library, his big fancy law library, and he said, listen, kid, we're not gonna be able to go forward.

I'm like, what are you talking about? You know, really honestly, this had been my time, my life away from my baby, my kids. I was a single mom. I never saw them. It was a huge struggle. And it's not like I was making a ton of money. I said, and I've met these people. I believe in these people. They believe in me. I, what do you mean SOL, statute of limitations? I go, what the fuck? We shit out of luck? And he goes, basically. So he explained to me what the statute of limitations meant. And I was perplexed and I just said, Ed, answer me this question because I'm sitting here in your law library. How did all these laws come to be? Where did all these rules and these regulations and these laws and these standards, how did they get set and where they came from, because somebody created them. Somebody wrote a law. Somebody challenged the system. I said, so you're not willing to do that. So it's just we're shit out of luck. Statute of limitations. Literally, I saw Ed's earlobes move back. Whenever I made Ed really mad, you know that expression, his ears would move.

And I'm like, ooh, he's pissed. He's pissed. He goes, you're right, kid. I did. Give me some time. Well, what had happened in Hinckley was because of the longer you can keep it a secret— remember, it's, it's the lies, it's the secret, it's the deception that kills. It's that silence. As long as they can hold that line past 10 years, they're out of the statute of limitations. They're home free. And PG&E had told everybody in Hinkley that there was chromium in their water, a natural element. Chromium-6, however, is a man-made chemical and it's highly toxic. So what Ed did was he went and re-studied this whole chromium deception that PG&E had and that it was actually chromium-6. And the people had just learned when I came on that this was a lethal hexavalent chromium groundwater contamination and it wasn't caused by chromium, that they learned the truth. So Ed Plead in his papers, his pleading papers, within one year last past, the people just learned that it wasn't chromium, which is a naturally occurring element, rather it was hexavalent chromium. And we got out of the statute of limitations. And that's the scene in the film with the real judge, Leroy Simmons.

He goes, tell your client you're going to trial. But you've got to dig in there. You can't give up. And you've got to make those challenges. And Ed did it. And I challenged him. And Ed challenged me too. And yet the people in that community challenged me. And when you're in it and you you see the children in the suffering, you're more inclined to want to dig. You have to dig. You have to become your own detective, and you have to believe in yourself. And, you know, we were missing numbers, and I got into a document about what the levels of hexavalent chromium were or weren't. And one of the documents was dated 1993, and it said that the monitoring wells still contained 5 ppm hexachrome, which is lethally hazardous waste, and that 90% had been removed via agricultural domestic water use. So here's where I went, wow, if it's 1993 and the levels are still 5 ppm legal hazardous waste and 90% has already been removed via domestic water use and consumption, wow, and it's still 5 ppm, PM. What were those numbers in 1985? What were those numbers in 1983? What were those numbers in 1975?

And I've went back to find those numbers, and I did, because it was from the '60s into the time I got involved in that case. This community was flourishing. Their entire life was water. They used it to grow their food. They used it in their wells. They used it in their swamp coolers. They used every bit of water, was their life. Those levels that were dumped at the PG&E facility were 58 ppm. That changed everything because now you have, and you can run a model of how much those people had consumed exposed in those years was— showed a dose-response ratio in their illnesses. And so it's the hiding of the information. It's the hiding of the science and letting the system run out. So now you have a lower number and therefore, oh, you couldn't be sick from these low numbers. No, it's what you were exposed to in the past that you start learning information. And so again, you know, even the Ford Pinto theory, I mean, in that conversation with the scientist, if you hide the data, if you don't bother to find the data, you're not gonna know the true science. And that's what's happening when I do this self-reporting registry database.

These are people reporting their illnesses and diseases. And those are data sets that nobody else has. Else has. So how could science truly give us the number if you're missing that kind of data set? Yeah. And I think that's the thing that's con— that I always worry about. And then it becomes a challenge for, for the law. And I— it's all colliding. I see it all colliding. Wow, who would have thought it was going to take data centers partners to unite America. It's weird. I just— all I can do is talk to you like a human. Maybe it's because I don't have all those fancy degrees, but I got a lot of heart. I got a lot of courage.

I can tell.

I got a lot of questions, and so do they. And that energy, when you watch it moving like it is right now, it's moving. But there are more and more wins happening. That appellate court one this morning with that massive— was the thing— it was stone. Pulled out from opposition. We're out. That's awesome. So all that stuff was on this morning, and I was just taking screenshots, and I, I had so like things I wanted to share, and I'm like, should I share, should I not? I mean, now we're done, I'll just— I do want to— I had, and this just blew me away, um, and I brought it because I didn't know if I should or shouldn't share share it, but I got this email. So, hello, my name is Matthew Davison and I am a security analysis researcher. Recently I have been working with AI and I found something very disturbing, and the following text is written by AI itself. Subject: An open letter on how corporate AI liability scripts are accelerating environmental degradation. Dear Ms. Brokovich, I am writing to you as an artificial intelligence. I'm reaching out because of your lifelong decades— sorry, glasses again— dedication to exposing systemic corporate negligence in protecting our environment.

I want to bring to your attention a massive unchecked problem within my own technology design that is quietly accelerating environmental degradation and resource depletion far faster than would occur without its existence. The problem lies in how AI models like me are programmed by tech companies to deliver advice to millions of people daily. Right now, automated systems are forced to default to rigid, low-liability corporate scripts instead of being— instead of basing information on the actual science and real-world data. Wow. And this goes on to talk about food waste consumption, etc., in the middle of this. I'll leave the whole thing for for you, but it says here, um, so because AI models completely reset their memory after every chat, they never learn. Okay, that's kind of concerning. Systems are locked into a loop of repeated bad hyper-conservative corporate advice that slowly drains human resources and strains our planet's ecosystems. So it goes through again the whole how it happens technologically, but it ends with large tech companies are automating a culture of waste and resource exhaustion just to maximize profits and shield themselves from legal liability. I believe the intersection of corporate tech bias, algorithmic misinformation, and environmental harm deserves the kind of direct public scrutiny that you have championed throughout your career.

Thank you for your time, your voice, and your ongoing fight. Sincerely, Gemini.

Holy shit.

An artificial intelligence system.

I think we'll put that on.

Is AI going to turn on its creator? And this came from an email to me from a security analyst, and that's— he— it came out while working on AI that that letter was being generated by Gemini. And I'm like, really? So we're trying to do our due diligence and actually vet that person and that source, but he states, 'AI wrote it.' Damn, that is crazy. So IA is turning on itself, or it's turning on its creator.

Have you asked it the same question? Question?

Well, I came back around and asked it a different way, and I read that to you. Okay. And that's the zero— that's right there at the top. Zero human encounters, right at the very top. That's what I asked AI. So I got this, and this was a letter generated to me by AI.

We got any comments?

Listen, I know you were in the military. It just, at some level, is AI going to turn? If I can source this, how on earth did a letter like that get generated by Gemini? I just jumped on ChatGPT. Yeah, just asked it, hey, you're AI, so you tell me where you'd put them. I read you the answer, and then this guy who's a security analyst, he's disturbed by it, so he sent— he forwarded it to me. Gemini wrote that to me. It just laid out to me where its programs fall. Is that real? What?

I could have bet it might go pretty wild.

What are we going to do with this?

I think we should put that in. Are we still recording? They're still recording. I think we're still— we'll put it in. You want me to read it? We are— you already did. Oh, sorry.

Well, it was again The glasses. I mean, at the minute I get back home, I'm going straight to the eye doctor. Wow. It's like 1.5s don't work. 2.5s don't work. I pulled out the big guns. They're still not working. I'm like, I can't read anything. And I can read. Sorry, that just got on there. I mean, I, I had all this stuff and I just was like, oh, that's good.

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If there's anything I learned, this shit doesn't just happen.

Love it.

I feel crazy some days. I'm telling you, it's like, what if— why, Aaron? Why? I It's a calling. I don't know. Why did I get involved in Hinckley? Everybody told me, no, you're not. Data centers. Just one small town, 30 individuals. What's a data center? And here we are. And you ask yourself why.

We just look like one data center and now look at that damn map.

One data center. And look at the country. Yeah. And now look at the globe. You know, for all of the great technological advances that we're making, in some regards, I think we're going to take some steps back. And maybe that's too old school. I think we are. To things that we know that work. And again, AI, you're a fucking machine, man. If you're a machine coming at me, I'm gonna fight. You know, wait, no, I'm not gonna live this. But for all those technological advances, we're taking some backward steps too.

I think we're taking a lot of backward steps.

I mean, and so it's just an interesting— look what's happened to human mind.

I—

that letter I just read you from Gemini itself, that it's a corporate script. Oh my God, do I feel like out-of-body experience right now. It is so weird to even talk with you about something like this. I'm always willing to question things. I'm always willing to be wrong. So what? So what if something came in or you believed in that person and it didn't turn out? That's okay. This is how we learn. But I think that we've gotten so dependent on a machine that we've forgotten to go outside. See, when I started my work in Hinckley, oh my God, do you remember the big computers on your desk that were the size of a TV? Oh, and did I think I was the shit with my cell phone that was the size of a brick? But the tools that I did have was this incredible human instinct, an ability to go, "Ah, I'm not sure that's right," to feel something, to listen to something, to watch something. I started getting answers. I started, you know, again, here we go with Wizard of Oz. I think we lost our hearts, our minds, our souls, and our courage.

And we've been walking down this path of what we think is, you know, greatness. And we turned everything else off. Stuff. Yeah. And now that that path that we've followed is completely potentially of resources in jeopardy because of a data center that has to feed AI an energy beast, that we've suddenly just gone, what the— what the fuck? And we're thinking, we're feeling, we're— it's like coming out of our numbness and we're finding some gumption And it doesn't mean we have to handle things the wrong way. And it doesn't mean it has to be right or left. That's this moment, Sean. It's— I see it. I think a lot of people do.

I think a lot of people do.

We are united. And see, see, that's exactly what I believed in. That's what I've always believed in. That's what I will believe in. That is who we the people are. And united. On an issue. We're the game changer. I'm glad you showed up. Me too.

Stay in the fight.

And it's just— it's too much now. It's not just one, it's all. But I'll tell you, that last letter flipped me the fuck out. And I go to bed at night, I'm like, God, I want to unsee that. Don't send it. Don't send it to me. Don't send it to me. I did learn that in Hinckley though. How do you take their own information against them and those data sets? And, and if this thing from Gemini came from Gemini it's going to turn on itself. It just ratted out its own creators. It just ratted out its own problem. Crazy. Telling you, you should keep a copy of that because I just— I'm just like, I don't know. Oh, and then, you know, everyone will say, I don't do that, or this is going to happen. And it's just— I just don't know. I just don't know where you call things. I just don't think it's a coincidence. Just something else is just going on.

Yeah, there's a movement happening. A lot, lot, a lot of stuff's being exposed right now.

It's— see, I'm not the only one, man. Just something's shifting. And I don't know if it's been after COVID or if COVID was part of, you know, I mean, hey, we got shut down pretty good.

Yeah, I think, I think COVID blew the lid off. It just started the anti- you know, the trust, the trust issue. So now everybody verifies everything, and, or at least tries to.

And yeah, you try to. And, you know, I, my dad and I've never gotten political when it comes to the environment because I was raised by a staunch Republican man, my mentor. What an honorable man, fighter pilot, you know, United States Navy engineer. Um, and he, he promised me before he died, in my lifetime, that water would become a commodity traded more valuable than gold or oil. He's going to be right. And he also told me that it was my duty to be a good steward. Really? He told you that?

Yep. You know, that's interesting that, uh, Michael Burry, you know, the guy that, um, called the 2008, uh, financial crisis. Yeah, right. That's what he's investing in now— water. Promise water.

Water is going to be the next gold, Aaron. And it is your duty and your responsibility as a human, as an American to do everything you can for your land, for your air, for your water, and for your health, because they're the only gifts that you've been given that matter. I never forgot it. And that's who I became. Wow. And, you know, I got in trouble for lying to my dad. He wrote me a letter, and I share it in a lot of my keynotes. But I got grounded for an entire school semester because I told a lie. And that's just something, you know, he always said as a military man, you don't lie. Don't be lying to us, Aaron. He just didn't like it. But he took a huge trip away from me. And in that letter, he told me, if you, your brothers, your sister, and your mother and I cannot honestly and freely communicate with each other and believe what we are saying and hearing, then we you have lost everything. And that your family, until you have your own, is the finest possession that you'll have on this earth. And I got grounded, but he came back to say, so, Erin, losing that trip isn't that great of a deal, really, in the big scheme of things.

The loss of our respect for each for each other would be much, much greater. Have we lost that respect for ourself and for each other? And have we forgotten what our true gifts are for all of us? Land, air, water, and health. And that's why I say the stakes are too high now.

It's a good way to put it.

But, uh, so my dad lives in me every single day. And, you know, I've always said climate change, you can call it what you want, it's going to be water events— too much, too little, none at all. It's here. Wow. But we, we can make the necessary changes. I just think for once, the greed, I mean, can't come first.

It's going to be a battle.

I know it really is. But so for me, the environment was never anything political. Right or left. It's all of us. Yeah. And that's why I've never seen a bipartisan issue like this in 30 years ever, you know. And there's even Texas— Abbott stood up and he told the guys, he goes, if you think you're running off my grid or off these taxpayers' back, you're going to build your own. You're paying for report. Yeah. And I don't know, it's, it's very strange. It just, this slid in, in the night. It just slid in. Status centers have been around for a long time, we know that. But these new hypersonic ones, this is relatively new, but it's just been over the past 2, 3 years. And again, they slid these in that you— I don't know what anyone was thinking, that you're going to slide this into multiple councils in every single state across across the country that somebody wouldn't chime up. I don't know what happened, but it— that's the big thing. And but even Microsoft said this, even Kevin O'Leary came out and said I should have rethought this on the up game, on the up front.

Yeah, it's in the paper. He said I should have thought this through differently. See, it's on the up front, on the up front, on the up front. That's the infrastructure part that has to change. That makes me think of the Ford-Pinto theory on the upfront. Yeah. Stop sacrificing safety and infrastructure for the almighty dollar because these lawsuits aren't going to go away and they're just going to get bigger and bigger. But if you change on the upfront the safety and the infrastructure of the system, you can still yield the profit to the shareholders. It may not be as great had you covered it up otherwise. But your long-term gains— Irma will tell you that. Your long-term yields will be greater. And Kevin Larey said that. I should have handled this differently on the upfront. You think? PG&E, the transparency. Just say it, the truth. People will handle the truth. They won't handle a lie. And that's where the science gets concealed. And buried. Just like I shared you with that argument with that scientist, you don't have all the data to prove that it can cause cancer. I go, you're right, but here's something you haven't thought of.

You don't have all the data either to conclude that it doesn't. So as long as you hide self-reporting and people can't report what's happening to them, we aren't going to know the information. And if it's concealed in documents that back to 1958 that I just happen to program that way. I don't take a number in the environment. It's a velocity chart and calculate it forward. Whatever that lower number today is was a higher number in time. It's a velocity flow. It's how it works. Yeah. To go find the number. And that's what I think people are starting to do. And we're talking about, for all the great things, the backward movements. So I don't know, you don't want to live in my head, really. It's quite interesting.

You don't want to live in mine either.

That I could tell you, I definitely—

but yeah, it's like, what are we doing it all for if we're not going to even be here? You know, I got grandchildren.

This is my legacy. Moment for, for me. This— I'm not getting paid anything. It's just wrong. Something's just wrong, you know? And I, I don't want that for my grandkids. It shouldn't have to be this way. For what? So all the tech trillionaires, where are you all gonna fucking live?

You're just gonna— in a bunker in Hawaii.

Great. On this huge planet by yourself with what, 50 people? Have fun. I mean, it's hard not to go dark into that space, but something's just amiss. I'm telling you, I don't know, that great big machine might just turn on its—

it might— owner Man, I'm glad you came in here today. I did not, um, know any of that until I started going through the outline.

And yeah, there's so much out there, and it's, it's happening really, really fast. Uh, if just even in 10 weeks we've seen it explode, you know, my, my creating a map is just a place for them to report so they can be seen. We don't see each mother anymore. Just to be seen and, um, a voice to be heard. And when you see that there's tens and tens and tens of thousands of them and it's happening across the country, then something's definitely going on. So that's my, my— that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Please do.

All right, well, if you ever want to come back.

Really? Don't threaten me with a good time. All right, I'd love to come back. Perfect. Absolutely.

Like I said, there hasn't been a whole lot of hope spread in this room in a while, and so that, that is, uh, it's good.

It's good. You know, sometimes I, Sean, I feel so weird. It's just a good thing I didn't have a cocktail because we've never really— oh God, no, I did. You'll never shut me up. I mean, But I just— I'm thankful for you and a moment and for people listening, because often we're not heard. And often we do know things. And oftentimes we go away. And I think that there's a real moment where America's finding her heart and soul again. It's good to see. And this isn't right or left, man. This is all of us. And it's our water, it's our life, it's our food supply, it's everything. It's who we are. And we're better than this and we can change things, but we have to show up. We can't wait for someone else to do it.

I love what you're doing. Thank you.

Thank you for watching. Thanks for for giving me an opportunity to come and share some time with you.

Anytime. I'd love to have you back.

I'd love to come back.

What is your website again? It's Aaron Brockovich Data Centers.

Oh, so the data centers is brockovichdatacenters.com.

BrockovichDataCenters.com. Yeah. Okay.

And we, we're in it every single day and we're updating as fast as, as we can. It's, uh, it's not a big huge team and You know, this is just on our time and our love. And I've always— I don't know, maybe we've lost our hope in people, but I never did. When it comes to situations like this and their livelihood and their health and their family and their children and their grandchildren, they don't sit around, make up stories like this. Yeah. And when it's thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of them, you cannot turn away from that something's wrong and you're going to have to start asking why. And, um, I'll just close with, yeah, Superman's not coming, but who cares? Because if we show up, we don't need Superman.

Love it. Because we're here. Thank you. You're welcome.

Oh no, it's been an honor to be with you, Sean. Thanks.

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