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The Confessionals

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🗓️ 26 December 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Today’s live show dives headfirst into the uncomfortable question no one wants to ask: what happens when artificial intelligence starts consuming more power than the system can handle? As AI data centers explode in size and demand, our already fragile power grid is being pushed to the breaking point, raising serious concerns about rolling blackouts, energy rationing, rising costs, and who ultimately gets prioritized when electricity becomes scarce. We’ll explore how this race for computational dominance could quietly reshape daily life, strain communities, and usher in a very real dystopian future where human needs come second to machines—and whether there’s an off-ramp before the lights go out.

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0:00.0	Due to high energy demands, you've been selected to donate five power hours to your local artificial intelligence server farm.
0:12.0	Not again.
0:14.0	Oh boy! Is that a slingshot?
0:16.0	Yeah, yeah, babe.
0:19.0	I'm just saying.
0:21.5	It's right.
0:22.1	Okay?
0:22.5	We got to go.
0:24.0	Put me on.
0:26.8	I'm just saying.
0:28.0	No distraction.
0:29.4	No distraction.
0:31.3	Work emails to you not account at work.
0:34.2	My life.
0:36.5	Welcome to the show, everybody. Hey, that's my line. Welcome to the show, everybody.
0:38.0	Hey, that's my line.
0:39.2	Welcome to the show, everybody.
0:40.6	Thanks for tuning into another live.
0:42.6	We are here.
0:43.9	Glad to be here.
0:45.0	Listen, I don't know about you guys where you've been for the last couple hours, but me, Tony, I showed up to the office at like quarter to seven in the morning.
0:53.9	And I got two guys who work
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