Tim Pool

And they say, we don't care what you, the voters actually think.

It's almost as if

They don't have real agency.

It's almost as if these politicians are not duly elected and don't actually care what the public thinks.

I wonder, could there be some nefarious group secretly in control of everything, telling the city councils to do whatever they want, no matter what?

I'm half kidding, by the way.

Elon Musk's XAI.

Pollution in data centers.

What you need to know about a Tennessee bill.

Indeed.

Right now, we've got Elon wrapped up in some of the controversy.

You've got this bill.

They say if recent data center developments in the state are any indicator, such as Elon Musk's XAI facility in Memphis, the legislation might lead to more pollution near data centers.

The bill would open the door to a massive influx of unregulated methane gas plants across the state.

Basically, what they're saying is, hey, these data centers, they got to have their own power because everybody's electricity is going up because of them.

So how about you have your own power?

And now they're like, what, we're going to have a whole bunch of methane power plants popping up everywhere now, too?

Yeah.

The proposed legislation defines a data center as a building that requires at least 50 megawatts of power and primarily houses equipment to process data.

We get it.