Jack Lawson: The Fragile Grid: How AI and Data Centers Are Creating New Points of Failure
The David Knight Show
David Knight
4.6 • 765 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:19.0 | And you can find his books, Civil Defense Manual. You can us now is Jack Lawson, and you can find his books, |
| 0:22.7 | Civil Defense Manual. You can find that at jack Lawsonbooks.com. |
| 0:27.0 | He also has a substack that he puts up very interesting articles. |
| 0:30.9 | He's had so much experience in survival type of situations, and he knows a lot of people who are very well-schooled and who are expert and have lived |
| 0:41.8 | this. |
| 0:42.4 | And so there's a lot of excellent tips in this book. |
| 0:45.6 | I wanted to get him on today because I wanted to talk about the vulnerability that I see |
| 0:50.1 | in terms of infrastructure. |
| 0:52.3 | The very first time I talked to Jack, we were talking about how vulnerable |
| 0:56.1 | our infrastructure was, you know, to an EMP attack or something like that. And that was a long |
| 1:01.8 | time ago. And we see all of these vulnerabilities really multiplying and interconnected. And so our entire society, our grid, and everything |
| 1:14.6 | that supports it is getting more and more complex. And, you know, we see this happening with, |
| 1:20.4 | with the AI stuff that is there. The AI coming in and being inserted into our society is going |
| 1:25.9 | to be a whole other point of possible failure when we become dependent on that. |
| 1:30.9 | I mean, we're going to pull that NJAC into the Pentagon. |
| 1:33.5 | They're very excited about pulling AI in the Pentagon. |
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