Sarah Shannon
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1,721 appearances
6 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Aug
Sarah Shannon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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About fourteen hundred built in the US last year.
Yeah,
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
For something that didn't functionally exist.
Five years ago.
It's extraordinary.
Like the footprint of these is enormous.
And the fact is that essentially the seven big tech companies have been with their capital expenditure on these.
That's all those stock market prices you've seen, that's been driven by this.
They are spending billions.
I mean actually possibly maybe even trillions on this in the next couple of years.
Yeah, and the Colorado River level has been falling and falling and falling.
Like water politics is is a huge deal in in America.
But you're right, and they're spread out often across more permissive states or more farm-based states.
But the essentially there have been lots of pockets of local resistance.
And because this is this America, this is playing out through lawsuits, which is good news for journalists because it means there are lots of documents to look at.
The New York Times had a had a great story from Louisiana.
And this actually reminded me of like a big steroidal American version of Teaside, the great private eye story of Richard Brooks.
Because the Facebook's parent company was asking that local officials not only for a tax break to be smuggled through in a bill that was about fiber optic uh cables, but also making local officials sign non disclosure agreements.
essentially the the the the bet from all of these tech companies, and correct me if I'm wrong Matt on this, is that there aren't gonna be that many winners, right?
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