Hello. Welcome back to all my relations. I'm Matika Wilbur from the Swinamish and Tulalip tribes. I'm here today with Dallas, who's getting ready to share with you his third episode in the takeover. Dallas, hello.

Ah, hey, we're chah.

Good to see you, Matika, and all the people listening today.

Hi.

Dallas, today we're talking about AI, about generative AI, about data centers in Indian

country. Your guest, Ashley Lamont, is super cool. I just love everything she has to say.

I'm really excited for this, but tell me, why do we need to keep talking about data centers and

generative AI? You know, why is this important to you right now? And how is this very specific

to Indian country and what Indian countries should be thinking about right now? I wanted to talk

about this because it's such a great intersection of so many things I find interesting, but also I think

that, you know, has a deep impact on Indian country. I read this report by Honor of the Earth as a

nonprofit organization that works on protecting the Earth. It's a nonprofit organization that

works on protecting the planet. And they state that between 103 and 160 hyper-scale data

centers are being planned on or near native lands. I read that. And I was like, oh, crap,

we need to talk about this. It's about data sovereignty. How are communities, how tribal nations are controlling what data is saved, what data is used,

who consumes it.

It's a conversation around water usage.

I mean, that's a big topic point that we're going to get into in this conversation with

our guests.

It's a conversation about fossil fuels, right?

Because right now, the argument that's being presented

is that we need more fossil fuels to feed the AI markets. Can we actually reexamine that? Can we

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