Finnerty uncovers dark reality of AI Data Centers

[00:00:00] James Clifton: this is cold water pressure in the kitchen this is where i fill up water for storage those are the things we have to fill up to flush the [00:00:13] Speaker 2: toilets so you can see the sediment from the data center wow and that's just from the water coming out of your faucet yeah and this is what's in all pipes so that is the dark side of living near one of the 4 000 data centers in this country did you have any idea there were that many a data center which is essentially a giant warehouse with millions of servers and every time you google something your device sends a signal to a data center and in nanoseconds seconds your device gets a response back but with demand growing for ai demands also growing for these data centers which are absolutely enormous one in texas called project matador is as big as 15 disneylands and uses as much power as the state of colorado requires every year it also uses over a billion gallons of water per year and the public as always have been basically kept in the dark by companies like meta and amazon who claim they're creating jobs but what the rest of the media are not talking about is what life is like for people who have homes near these data centers water restrictions no water higher energy bills and unbelievable noise in georgia one data center used 30 million gallons of water leaving residents without any water in utah a data center that's currently under construction is going to require more energy than the entire state of utah times two annually and after years of climate nonsense and hysteria apparently billionaires like mark zuckerberg don't care about the climate anymore because a single data center can generate the same amount of heat as 23 atomic bombs being dropped daily that is a fact kristin megan is a senior industrial hygienist and environmental specialist james clifton is a real estate attorney and republican nominee for the fayette county board of commissioners where one of these metadata centers is causing a lot of issues it's great to have you both here tonight kristin so everybody's talking about the water can you tell us about something called tonal noise and what's that is doing to people who live near these places [00:02:24] Kristin Megan: yeah so when we're evaluating risk and from an occupational setting especially placing it in a residential setting tonal noise is noise that you necessarily don't hear it has a biological impact and what it does to livestock so farmers and ranchers is it can elevate the cortisol levels which impedes proper milk production fertility and mating cycles in cows and livestock horses will engage in self-harm when it comes to pregnant women females it can raise the maternal fetal heart rate which can cause early birth low birth weights um for children it it absolutely has an impact on their cognitive abilities to concentrate have proper reading comprehension and then the elderly and chronically ill who might have actually implanted devices like pacemakers tonal noise is something that happens from the emf and elf so the electromagnetic frequencies in the extremely low frequencies 24 7. it's highly hazardous and just so you know tonal noise was used as a military torture technique wow um james can you tell us what's going on in fayette [00:03:29] James Clifton: county sure uh we have qts data center here in fayette county is going to be when completed one of the largest data centers in the country it'll be on 900 acres about 6 million square feet fayette county is a suburban community just south of atlanta and it is plop this data center is plop right in the middle of our county and it has been causing disturbances to our county from traffic to water pressure issues and some concerned citizens came to me and they asked me to look into the water usage since qts came to town they and our elected leaders and the development authority have been telling us that they will only use 2 000 gallons of water per day so i submitted some open records requests and i was shocked to find that they actually used 70 million gallons in the last year which is approximately 100 times what they had told us that they would use who pays for that yep who pays for that who pays for that uh so they actually do pay for that but they get a preferential rate as an industrial rate payer okay so they're not not paying what private citizens yeah so they pay for that and they're in buried in that open records request i found a letter from the fayette county water system to qts that said that they had tapped into a residential water main unknown to the county and that they had siphoned off almost 29 million gallons of water my goodness okay that was quite a shock and that kind of brought us into the the national spotlight since then the fayette county water system has said that qts is actually a partner and that it was a billing error on that part well just a billing error okay right exactly let me that was quite interesting um phrasing from them and each one of these data centers hold on james let me just bring [00:05:22] Speaker 2: kristin back in each one of these data centers claim and this is really important they all say and you go online and people are being compensated to debunk this they all say no no you don't have to worry about the water because once we get the water we need it's a closed loop system but that's [00:05:37] Kristin Megan: not exactly accurate kristin is it no it's not accurate and i will say to kevin o'leary i do not work for china see any time that someone is claiming that there's a closed loop system it is false you have something called evaporated cooling any time they're using water you they have to use biocides anti-corrosives and they have to discharge that water and refill it and even closed loop systems can still use up to five million gallons of water a day and they're often placing these in places that have very low aquifers and that's why the video that you showed in the opening it lowers the water pressure because these wells and aquifers are not being refilled at a rate that is up with the demand of these [00:06:16] Speaker 2: data centers yeah i'm just wondering kristen why are they being built in areas that are already dealing [00:06:20] Kristin Megan: with drought all over the country you know i'm also very confused about that but i do know that these data center companies are looking for weak zoning laws struggling farmers and ranchers for false promises of return of investments that are not really coming to fruition so it's a head scratcher for me also but the irony is there is better engineering controls there's better technology there's smaller footprints there's better ways to do this and i'm not against ai i'm against the rush [00:06:47] Speaker 2: and doing it improperly yeah and why do we need so many of these things so quickly i think that's very suspect james i've got 30 seconds but do you think these centers could be used for surveillance military surveillance to monitor private citizens you know mass surveillance force thousand of these all across the country and more being built every month of course that is one of the aspects that [00:07:10] James Clifton: data centers can be used for that's what i i believe that's why we see such a high concentration of them uh in loudon county virginia just outside of washington dc uh and i think that it's it's a critical aspect especially with uh visual um types of ai where they have to identify certain things like flock cameras um self-driving cars and things like that that they are being going to be used to monitor us indefinitely and i want to say real quick thank you to the people of fayette county for putting your [00:07:39] Speaker 2: faith in me in the may 19th election um absolutely i'll just add to that by the way just final thought on the sound so some of these our sound is anywhere between 90 and 120 decibels which would be like sleeping next to somebody in the room who's operating a power tool think about that and think about people that you know have worked so hard to buy a home and suddenly one of these things goes up and it's right next door and you're dealing with that every single day 24 hours a day they never turn them off kristin megan james cliffson hope to have you back thank you thank you [00:08:26] Speaker ?: Thank you.