Valuetainment - April 14, 2026


“Vote Them OUT!” - AI Data Centers Cause Missouri Residents To REVOLT


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Voters in Missouri town oppose $6B AI data center, and Gov. Jay Nixon says no more data centers in his state. Also, a new report from the U.S. Department of Energy says data centers are a threat to our energy supply.

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00:00:00.080 Let's talk about these data centers, man, that a lot of people are worried about.
00:00:03.580 Voters oust half of Missouri City Council for greenlighting a $6 billion AI data center.
00:00:12.580 So if you want to pull this up, check this out, guys.
00:00:15.360 And this is going to lead to a story with Maine, which they kind of go together.
00:00:20.280 And Tom, if you wanted to kind of go and, you know, combine the two stories together, feel free to do so.
00:00:25.360 You don't have to wait for me to separate the two stories.
00:00:27.980 So the billion is, so where's this page at?
00:00:30.320 Page 24.
00:00:32.900 Is it page 24?
00:00:34.060 What page is this thing on?
00:00:35.120 23 and 25.
00:00:36.100 23 and 20.
00:00:36.900 I'm on 23.
00:00:37.720 I don't see Missouri on 23.
00:00:39.300 Really?
00:00:40.260 Oh, there it is.
00:00:40.840 Okay.
00:00:41.420 Voters in Missouri's town ousted four city council members Tuesday for supporting the AI data center in the area.
00:00:48.140 Voters in the town.
00:00:49.540 Is this a video, Rob?
00:00:50.640 Yes, sir.
00:00:50.940 Go for it.
00:00:52.760 Fess's council approved $6 billion data center despite public pushback.
00:00:55.920 Look at this.
00:00:57.320 No data center!
00:00:59.540 No data center! 1.00
00:01:00.300 Shit. 1.00
00:01:01.200 No data center! 1.00
00:01:02.300 Did you say no data center?
00:01:03.460 They don't want data center.
00:01:04.800 No data.
00:01:06.200 Tuesday vote followed months at times.
00:01:10.400 Ruckus opposition against the CRG Clayco plan to build a hyperscale data center on 360 acres in the town.
00:01:18.120 The four city council members who lost their re-election bids were defeated by candidates who ran against the data center and supported more transparency.
00:01:24.740 This data center fight has struck the community to the core and really honestly ignited a community-driven effort.
00:01:31.160 Here said Dan Moore, who defeated the pro data center incumbent Bobby Benz, told St. Louis Public Radio, people are awake now and we're not going to let this continue on anymore.
00:01:41.000 Tom.
00:01:41.620 So here's what's going on.
00:01:44.220 Two things happened in America.
00:01:45.960 Now, connect the dots really, really fast.
00:01:47.920 We have been not allowing appropriate permits for new power in this country.
00:01:54.740 And we think nuclear power is Three Mile Island 1977 or something like that.
00:02:01.280 Whenever the disaster happened, I think it was 77.
00:02:04.160 Check me on that.
00:02:06.280 And so we haven't been doing it.
00:02:07.980 Meanwhile, and we also see, oh, my gosh, the tsunami in Fukushima
00:02:12.780 and all the people that got radiation poisoning in Japan when that power plant.
00:02:18.880 And then newer power plants have been built in crazy places like France, allowing new fifth-generation, I think it's fifth- and sixth-generation data.
00:02:29.380 They haven't been doing that in the U.S.
00:02:31.080 Meanwhile, our power consumption has been going up just with regular IT and EVs.
00:02:37.500 California, you can't even get an off-peak power plan for your house that's as inexpensive as it was 10 years ago.
00:02:45.220 10 years ago used to get cheap power in the evening sun goes down you can run the air
00:02:48.600 conditioner at night and it costs you less per hour of electricity or per kilowatt not no more
00:02:53.520 you have all the evs how is this going to data centers data centers are arriving on the scene
00:02:59.520 when america's terrible energy policies under obama and biden have led to an electricity shortage in
00:03:08.200 america because we don't have enough power plants and so now the data centers have thrown it over
00:03:13.140 the top. Power has gone up. We covered two weeks ago that the bid for power in the eastern region
00:03:19.560 around Baltimore was up 30x over five years. 30x. Bam. Yeah, exactly. And do you have the chart
00:03:28.080 showing, Rob, the chart showing the build out of data centers? So now the citizens are going in
00:03:34.060 and saying, hey, man, it's a multicolor chart. It's not today, Rob, to you directly. So now
00:03:42.680 Now, Maine has said we're outlawing these.
00:03:45.060 There will be no data centers here, number one.
00:03:48.380 Number two, we have Missouri people showing up because they're equating data centers with electric costs.
00:03:55.120 And so they don't – and data centers have been overpaying people for their land.
00:03:59.820 Remember the woman we covered a week and a half ago, Pat?
00:04:02.000 She said, I'm not selling my farm for 20X.
00:04:04.180 And people around her and her neighbors were like, hey, we're really – I really appreciate that you did this.
00:04:10.400 There it is.
00:04:11.660 So now take a look at this, Pat.
00:04:13.400 Look at data center pipeline.
00:04:15.580 Here's the announced data centers,
00:04:17.420 and the blue at the top is the ones that are actually under construction.
00:04:21.400 They are being blocked by citizens.
00:04:24.100 So guess what?
00:04:25.060 Electrical power is going to keep going up for the data centers that are built
00:04:29.400 and the fact that America already has an electricity shortage
00:04:33.360 because of EVs and other usage.
00:04:35.960 and you have Oracle and Google actually got permission to build small micro nukes to supply
00:04:43.260 their own data center and the the president something that I've been outspoken about
00:04:49.080 he got the rate player rate payer pledge and I'm like Mr. President that was a nice pledge to get
00:04:56.500 in Q1 of this year just a couple months ago but you need to turn that into rate payer legislation
00:05:02.460 so that you protect the consumer.
00:05:05.000 But that's what's going on.
00:05:06.500 Citizens are now showing up, Pat,
00:05:08.220 and they're equating the next data center
00:05:10.520 with the next utility hike,
00:05:12.480 and they're not having it.
00:05:13.760 And those are not crazies.
00:05:15.160 Those are citizens sitting in a gymnasium
00:05:17.340 coming unglued in Missouri
00:05:19.960 with their city council who wants to vote for it
00:05:23.020 because you know what it means?
00:05:25.300 Property tax money for the city,
00:05:27.600 and they think it means, you know,
00:05:29.840 40 to between 40 to 100 construction jobs for about a year and a half and then usually only
00:05:37.460 about 10 to 15 data center workers but they want the property tax money but the people are freaking
00:05:42.340 out about electricity yeah well i'm not going to be the the data center guy but i will say what's
00:05:48.320 important for the viewer out there understand that local politics is the most important politics you
00:05:53.480 should have in your life we're so focused with what trump is doing what trump is tweeting or
00:05:58.600 if you don't live in new york what did mom donnie say i don't care about california gavin newsom
00:06:03.600 you know my boy swalwell all this but here's the question to you do you know your local mayor
00:06:08.240 in your town do you know the name i guarantee you know mom donnie's name because he's all over the
00:06:13.060 news i know i know i didn't pay attention to local politics i'm just starting to really pay
00:06:18.340 attention i'm here in miami shout out to mayor francis suarez the new mayor of the eileen higgins
00:06:22.600 democrat came in mayor stephen minor in miami beach florida greatest state in the union by far
00:06:28.180 away shout out to ron de santis byron donald's likely to be the next governor unless jay collins
00:06:33.280 has something to do with it i think fishback is taking his fish back i don't think that's happening
00:06:37.440 but the most important thing for you is understand your local politics because that affects you
00:06:42.700 way more than anything that trump does by far so shout out to these voters and these uh in missouri
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