Big Tech’s AI Expansion Sparks Massive Grid Strain & Community Backlash
Brian Kilmeade Show
FOX News Podcasts
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🗓️ 23 July 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So I want you to hear Chris Wright talk about these data centers, cut 51. |
| 0:04.7 | Part of the rate payer protection pledge is if you're going to use a gigawatt of power, |
| 0:09.3 | build, help support the building of more than a gigawatt of power. |
| 0:12.7 | It's not just covering your own costs. |
| 0:14.8 | It's improving the economics and the economic opportunities for the community around you. |
| 0:20.1 | And the signers of the ratepeer Protection Pledge have embraced this. |
| 0:24.6 | So that's, we know 40% of all the new data centers are being protested. |
| 0:28.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:29.6 | One of which was, I don't want my utility bill to go up because the data center is sucking all the power. |
| 0:34.6 | So they say you gotta, this is almost a voluntary thing, right? |
| 0:37.9 | You have to have your own power and add to the grid of that state. |
| 0:42.1 | You know me. I don't want more regulation, but I do think that I want more than just a |
| 0:45.9 | pledge. We have come full circle with Big Tech. I think I was not a fan during COVID when a lot |
| 0:53.1 | of us felt censored for having different opinions. |
| 0:56.7 | And then, of course, Big Tech has been cozying up to the president. |
| 0:59.5 | And then I think there is a lot of good within AI and good in data centers. |
| 1:04.1 | I think a lot of people don't trust Big Tech. |
| 1:06.2 | And they're looking at Mark Zuckerberg and they're thinking, yeah, a little pledge doesn't |
| 1:10.0 | really work. |
| 1:10.7 | We need more than |
| 1:11.5 | that because we don't trust you. So I do think that this needs to be something more than a pledge. |
| 1:16.5 | And I have been arguing that I think you should have representatives from these big tech companies. |
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