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Data Centers are DRAINING Your Energy. Here's the Solution | 6/5/26
05 Jun 2026
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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
We're living in a time where it's really easy to forget what this country is actually about, how it came to be. And we talk about the founders like they just appeared fully formed out of history. But that's not how it happened. That's why I think young George Washington is so important right now. This is a film that takes you back before he was president, before the revolution was won.
Before George Washington was George Washington, that symbol. And it shows you the young man he really was. Not perfect, not polished, but somebody who was shaped by failures, hard decisions, and courage. And by a sense that there was something bigger than himself at work. Great leaders are not created in comfort. They're forged when things are hard.
Chapter 2: Why is George Washington's early life significant?
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It's Friday. Oh, it feels good saying that. Hello and welcome. I'm glad that you're here. We've got a lot on our plate today. I mean, I've got tons and tons and tons of stuff that I want to comment on, but I also want to hear from you today. 888-727-BECK. If you're an insider, you have your special insider line.
You can get in line to call up anything that I've missed, anything you think I got wrong, any comments you want to make. The floor is yours, 888-727-BECK. I want to talk about what's happening with a story from Jill Biden and Melania Trump, the inaugural day. I just love this story. She's one badass woman. Do not screw with Melania Trump. She is just, she's not a wilting flower.
Let me tell you that. More on Platner. Looks like the New York Times is playing a game. Interesting thing on that. The vote count in California. Ukraine. Glenn Greenwald and I had a exchange on X yesterday in the middle of like 800 things I was doing yesterday. Uh, Glenn Greenwald just kept popping up and I'm like, okay, all right, Glenn, you're wrong about Russia. You're wrong about Russia.
You know, you'd be right about freedom of speech and everything else, but you're wrong about Russia. And I really want to talk about that today as well, but your phone calls will steer it 8 at 8, 7, 2, 7 B E C K. First, let me tell you about relief factor. Your trust. Isn't something that I take lightly. It's not something that I'm, I'm going to throw away by endorsing products.
I don't believe in never have never will. I've turned down more advertising than I've taken. over the years uh and if something doesn't work if it doesn't have value if i don't think it if i don't use it i'm not telling you about it i will recommend it to my own friends if i put my name on it and you are I mean, I just have this weird relationship with you.
I know we don't know each other, but I do think of you kind of almost as family, at least a friend, except for those of you who are under the payroll of George Soros. Just want to point that out. I want to talk to you about Relief Factor. You know my story, dealing with pain in my hands. Tanya suggested it. I started feeling better.
In fact, the real proof came when I stopped taking Relief Factor because I thought, oh, I'm just starting to feel better. I'm so stubborn. She can't be right. I just started to feel better. I stopped taking it and my pain comes back immediately. It's part of my routine now for years. I just took it this morning.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of rising energy costs?
So I write back, Glenn, you're right. Great things come from Russian people. Russians, Russians, nor talking to Russians is, Russians nor talking to Russians are the problem. I don't know what that is. I must have been drunk. You're much smarter than this tweet, assuming that you're saying is what I said. The problem is the philosophy of Alexander Dugan and his plan to poison Western faith.
Anyone who's actually read his books knows he's not for classic liberalism. He's not for individual liberty. And he is looking for a Christian prince, one that can hold back the end of days by linking arms with those who will choose his prince over the American founding liberal documents and principles while linking arms literally with the Mahadi and the Islamic world.
That's the problem, not the Russian people or Candace or Russian art and history. But you know that. I don't look for my savior of my faith, country, or culture in a man, be it Trump or Dugan or Putin. I put it in Christ and people living by the principles that he taught. And that only works when each of us have the freedom to choose as an individual.
He comes for the individual, never for the collective. So he responds, you should interview Dugan. I did in Moscow. He believes the West, it's the West that seeks civilizational hegemony. The end of history is Western liberalism. He wants civilizational diversity. And you're wildly exaggerating his influence in Russia. I never said anything about his influence in Russia.
He's called Putin's brain. Now, they've had some falling out, I'm sure. But he's also speaking at the same conference put together with him and Putin. And he's speaking next to Putin. So, I mean, I got to say, I mean, he's not like a nobody. And I never said anything about his influence. I'm not worried about his influence in Russia as much as I am worried about his influence in the West.
And by the way, he believes he wants civilizational diversity. No, he doesn't. No, he doesn't. Anyone who believes the Enlightenment is the problem is the problem. They think that being able to have individual liberty, that's what he's talking about. Individual liberty. I'm sorry, I can't get into that boat at all. So I write, sure, I've read his books. Have you? His ideas are truly monstrous.
The end of modernity and everything this country is based on. I'm not in the business of giving a platform to somebody who is looking for a bigger platform. I know who he is. He clearly lays it out in all of his books. I've been following his work since the 90s. I don't know his influence today in Russia. I'm more concerned with his growing influence in the West.
I have a ton of respect for you, Glenn. You're really missing the mark if you've read his books. Okay. So that was the extent of the exchange. Now, here's why I think maybe I'm trending is because I said, I have a ton of respect for you, Glenn. Can we, can we, can I, can we hold two ideas at the same time? Can we hold two ideas at the same time? Glenn Greenwald is wrong about a lot of stuff.
Glenn Greenwald has done a lot for freedom of speech. I have a lot of respect for what he has done in the past for freedom of speech. I believe he has been a very strong proponent of freedom of speech. I disagree with Glenn Greenwald on almost everything else.
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Chapter 4: How do personal experiences shape discussions on disability?
I can have respect for him and recognize that he is also wildly wrong. Here's why I said that. Somebody needs to model how to talk to one another again. If I got on and said, Glenn Greenwald, you're a monster. You're an a-hole and shut up. Where would we be? Glenn and I would not be having a conversation. We would not be able to explore things.
And all we would have are two sides that hated each other. I don't want that. They already hate me. You know, he already hates me or they are hate me. You know, his people that are tweeting with him. My side, a lot of people will already hate him and, you know, dog pile on him. Why? Why?
Why?
Let's further the conversation because we get nowhere by continuing to divide ourselves. That's why I've not made this whole thing about Candace Owens because that's what everybody else is doing. And I have to tell you, I feel sad for Candace Owens because I think she had potential. I think she could have been an influence for good. I think she just chose to be an influence.
And I also think maybe that there's some mental issues going on there. Maybe. I don't know. Ricky's putting her head in her hands. I do believe that.
Can we not diagnose people live on national radio? We're not trying to start a war with Candace.
I've said it before. I'm not. But I do think that there's been some... Okay, I don't want to say anything. That's fine.
You might be right. But, you know, I'm the one that gets the notifications lit up on X, sir. It's my phone that's like... That's fine.
I've said it before. My fight is... Look, my... I don't necessarily, I have to think all of this thing through because I speak before I think sometimes. I don't think she's mentally ill. I think she has some mental issues. That doesn't mean you're a nut job. He just means like, okay, all right. You know, we all have people in our family that are like, you know what?
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Chapter 5: How does Glenn explain the power grid situation in America?
And that's an important distinction because we're living with something that's so outdated. A lot of what frustrates us today is not the result of a master plan. It's a result of thousands of old decisions that nobody ever went back and rethought. They still aren't. Let me give you an example.
The Texas power grid, when it failed during the winter storm of 2021, millions of people lost power for a long time, and people in Texas were really upset. And there are a lot of reasons for the failure, weather, equipment, planning decisions, green energy, nonsense. And people still argue about the detail.
But the fact remains that Texas has limited electrical connections to the neighboring grids compared to most states.
Chapter 6: What are the implications of data centers on energy demand?
And this is both good and bad for Texas. But when the system came under extreme stress, there were limits on how much the outside could help. Think about that. America had the power, just not where it needed to be. The electricity existed. The pathway didn't. That's not just a Texas story.
That is the American story because much of our transmission system built decades ago, the power lines are approaching or exceeding the age where they were originally designed for. The system built this was built and I think it was built to last 70 years and we're past that now. Okay. Um, And the fact that they're still working is remarkable. But they were not planning for artificial intelligence.
They weren't planning for data centers that were demanding gigawatts of power. They were planning for an economy, you know, honestly, in the 1960s. They built for the world they knew. So how do we get to a modern system? Well, the answer is actually already here. This part's going to drive you out of your mind. Out of your mind.
I'll tell you the final piece of this deep dive on data centers and electricity next.
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Chapter 7: How can cities negotiate with data center companies?
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All right. I'm doing a deep dive on the data centers, and I want you to know my phrase here is I understand the concerns, and I validate them, and I believe you're accurate in those concerns. You are accurate in your belief that you're going to get screwed. This thing is going to be built on your backs with your money. That's why it's not effective to say no.
It is effective to say, no, unless, and you fill in the unless, unless you're putting more power in to our grid and you're building your own power system for what you take, but for the right to be able to have this big, huge data center in my community, you're going to put 5% more power into us because my electricity is not going up because here's what the electrical companies are saying.
We have to upgrade the grid as it is, okay?
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Chapter 8: What choices do we have regarding our energy future?
And everybody is tying it to the data center. And in a way, they're right, but in a way, they're not right. The grid was built decades ago, and it was never meant to ā it's all aging out, okay? It was not meant to last longer than it already has. And so we have been delaying and delaying and delaying and nobody wants to pay for it. Nobody wants to pay for it. And it is decaying on us.
So our power grid is absolutely archaic. But that is the human way and the American way of doing things. We never do it the right time. You know when we'll think about hardening the grid? You know when we'll think about putting protection around the generators that we have and the... I can't remember the name of the... transformers.
You know when we'll start putting protection around the transformers? When Al-Qaeda takes and comes in and they shoot six of those things around the country and they collapse our grid. That's when we'll say, we should put protection around those. We should have done that a long time ago, but we never do those things.
So we should have upgraded our grid a long time ago, but we didn't because you only do it because you're human and you're an American. You only do it when it's a crisis, when you absolutely have to. So the power grid problem with these data centers comes in. America, the builders of America know we have to have these data centers. And so it's a crisis.
And so now the power companies are saying, well, we're going to have to upgrade our grid. So they're going to do it. And that's where you're going to get that 14% increase. No, no, no, no, no. Use this to your advantage, cities. Facebook. you know, Tesla or whoever needs these, you know, Google, you need a data center, Microsoft, you need a dentist. Here's what you're going to do.
You're going to upgrade our grid. You're going to put 5% of the energy you create into our grid. So we're going to not only get a new grid, we're also going to get a reduction in our, the average citizens power, and you can build your data center. You don't do that. You don't have a data center. We're not doing it here. And sometimes your bluff will be called. Sometimes it won't be.
Sometimes you'll win. But enough of cities do that and stop saying no, but say no unless you meet these conditions, you're going to start winning. Otherwise, they're going to steamroll you and bulldoze you. Now, here's the part that's going to really hack you off. As of 2025... More than 2,000 gigawatts of proposed energy projects are waiting in interconnection queues across the country.
2,000 gigawatts. Think about this. These are projects waiting, not producing power, waiting. Some of them are waiting just to be connected. Some of these projects are waiting to be built. Some of them maybe shouldn't get built. But the scale of the backlog should tell you something important. The challenge isn't finding energy. It's connecting energy. It's permitting. It's approvals.
It's planning regions. It's studies. It's paperwork. Sometimes the hardest part of building a power project is not the engineering. It's just getting past the damn paperwork. And that's where we have ourselves in trouble every time. We have made it so easy to say no. We've made it so difficult to say yes. Now, there are reasons to review things.
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