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media is opening up to this live issue. And let's put this up here on the screen, quote,

the new price of eggs, the political shocks of data centers and electric bills. New York Times

starting to pay attention, actually doing a decent enough job of going over and actually, you know,

interviewing some of the people

who are most affected. So they actually opened the story with cattle ranchers in Georgia,

quote, they had one thing on their minds when they cast their ballots for the state's

utility board to make a statement. They were irked by their escalating electric bills,

not to mention extra 50 bucks a month levied by their local utility to cover a new

power plant more than 200 miles away. But after they heard a data center might be built next to their

ranch, 60 miles southwest of Atlanta, they had enough of Republicans who were far too receptive

to the interests of the booming AI industry. First time I ever voted Democrat, Mr. Payton, 58,

says. So you can see in that anecdote,

the political price now, as this has propelled two Democrats in the state of Georgia to upset.

You also, as I have said here before, there are opposition organic movements across the nation,

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