[00:01] daughter's wedding. I march up to you fifi faux f my way over and I say, "Give me your house." Well, you can do a few things there. You can give me your house, negotiate to sell me your house, you can poke me in
[00:17] the eyes like Captain Insano, punch me in the face, [ __ ] titty twist me. That's called a choice. You have a choice there. Your local government comes up to you and says, "Give me your house. Buster, there ain't no choice.
[00:32] Not now. Not with data centers being the most important thing to these [ __ ] zombies in power. I know I've yapped about it a lot, but legitimately AI data centers are actually the boogeyman. They are just a scourge on this planet and a
[00:45] stain on civilized society. They are these behemoths that require all infrastructure to be changed to suit their gluttony, to satiate their their gluttony, to satiate their insatiable appetite. and doing so just
[00:59] pillages communities while seeing basically no benefit beyond the temporary jobs they use to build them. Always worth reminding you that the data centers that we have except for like the biggest ones usually have like 20 maybe
[01:12] biggest ones usually have like 20 maybe 25 on the high-end full-time employees and sometimes not even that much. Even the biggest ones don't have significantly more full-time employees than that. So it is a complete plague on
[01:27] communities in which AI data centers in infest and it is just a growing problem much like the explosive diarrhea problem except on a much larger scale. And your
[01:39] local government prioritizes these data centers over you the human beings the civilians in which they were elected to represent and try and support. They have represent and try and support. They have sold you out and are actively just
[01:53] selling you for parts. Your land, your water, your electricity. All of it is water, your electricity. All of it is being diverted to these AI data center demons. And I just watched a story that covered one family's lengthy battle that
[02:07] unfortunately ended in defeat against Georgia Power who swooped in and told them that they would need to sell them their house, a house they had owned for multiple decades, because they were upping their power grid and needed to
[02:23] run lines through their property to supply to the AI data center there. and they couldn't refuse because if they didn't sell their house, they made it clear that they would just seize it under imminent domain.
[02:37] >> Welcome back. Some homeowners in Georgia are being given an ultimatum to sell their homes or the state will get this, take it to make way for AI data centers. CBS News correspondent Skyler Henry has more.
[02:50] everything. >> How do you put a price on a home you never intended to sell? >> Well, I'd say horseradish. who we with >> Well, I'd say horseradish. who we with that. You can't put a price tag on fun.
[03:02] And what's more fun than an AI data center, especially if you're at the top of the food chain, dropping the sarcasm. Obviously, no normal person actually sees a benefit when an AI data center comes through. All of the evidence from
[03:16] across this country confirm that. From everything I've seen, the all of the data does not seem to indicate that the communities, the local communities actually get any benefits from these data centers that get put in. It is just
[03:30] data centers that get put in. It is just a burden. And now, as I've said, all of these local governments are scrambling to do what they can to ensure they get built come hell or high water and are actively shutting out the voices of the
[03:45] communities that they are supposed to represent and protect. It is sickening. memories. >> I think I was five or six when this was >> The yard where you buried your pets. The greenhouse that fed your family.
[04:00] >> When you you you talk about what being on this property means to you. >> Right. It's y'alls. >> It's ours. It's our family. We belong >> But Ansley Brown's childhood home likely won't be here much longer. That's
[04:14] because the state's largest utility, Georgia Power, says it needs the area to line. >> Now, if you're an AI data center cockgobbler, you might be going with the very obvious lowhanging fruit argument
[04:29] of, well, this is important because this is public infrastructure that will serve the community by adding these lines here to up the power grid. This is going to if they are not willing to sell, imminent domain does make sense. And
[04:44] this is an openandshot case. But here's the thing. They openly talk about these the thing. They openly talk about these new lines and this upgrade. Almost all new lines and this upgrade. Almost all of it is solely for AI data center, not
[04:56] for the community. That is not serving the public. Again, all of the data that is readily accessible right there at your fingertips can show you that AI data centers are not actually serving the community in a helpful way. The only
[05:11] people it serves, the only people it benefits are the putrid ghouls at the top of the food chain that are behind these projects that make tons and tons of money off of it. And the local governments, well, maybe they get some
[05:27] little bit of the scraps there to incentivize greenlighting these >> Georgia Power has been here for as long as Ansley's mother has owned this property. It's just beyond the tree line. Now, with the expansion of this
[05:42] latest project, they're looking to take the two and a half acres the house sits on. Georgia Power says increasing demands has outpaced the capacity of its existing grid, and building a new
[05:55] transmission line requires acquiring more than 300 parcels of land, including residential properties. What did your mom tell you she wanted for this property to be? >> Generational wealth. True generational
[06:08] wealth was the idea. and now it's being stripped from us. >> Georgia Power estimates 70 to 80% of the power on this new line is expected to help serve data centers. It says the remaining 20 to 30% of power will serve
[06:21] commercial demand. >> 70 to 80% of this upgrade is solely for AI data centers. Huh. Interesting. And this is what they're publicly sharing and which is oftentimes very charitable a very generous uh uh numbers that they
[06:39] full face of makeup here to really make it seem like no this is this is like good for you actually. And even with that in mind they still say 70 to 80% is used solely for data centers and then the civilians the plebeians get the
[06:53] remaining 20 to 30% of this upgrade. So I think just looking at these raw numbers, I feel you can make a very strong argument that this is not in service of the community. That's an afterthought. It's in service to the AI
[07:06] demand here that you are appeasing and upgrading and now taking over 300 parcels of land from from the community and residents, including this family's cherished beloved home. And I just don't
[07:21] I think it's blatantly obvious it's not. Thus, I don't think imminent domain should even be an option on the table. Now, according to the daughter here, the price they wanted for their home to be taken by Georgia Power was astronomical
[07:35] generational wealth, which they didn't want to play ball with. Instead, I imagine they went with some lowball offers as is standard procedure when this kind of [ __ ] unfolds here, where they try and take advantage of the
[07:48] situation here because there's not a choice really. story, this has been like a year-long battle where they were trying to weren't wanting to sell, unless, of course, generational wealth was an offer
[08:03] on the table, which of course they're never going to do. Thus, they were domain to just strip it from him regardless. Thus, forcing them to accept regardless. Thus, forcing them to accept the the uh offer and sell the home to
[08:17] them because they don't have a choice. Basically, you are going to lose your house in this case right here. It is [ __ ] checkmate on the board. And it's just suffocating. It's just [ __ ] awful. And I don't think it's
[08:31] unreasonable to say like, "We don't want to sell it. If you really want it that bad, generational wealth is what you're going to need to offer. Otherwise, [ __ ] take a hike, pussy." Like, I feel I don't blame them for
[08:43] >> Georgia Power told us that they feel as if they've done this process What would you say to that? >> I disagree. You can't tear down 35 miles of rural Georgia and it not hurt something or somebody. And to say that
[08:59] you're doing it in the name of data centers is a slap in the face to us, our community, our animals. >> Brown's mother recently came to an agreement with Georgia Power to sell. Brown says if she didn't, the utility
[09:14] could have sought to acquire her property through eminent domain, a legal process that allows private property to be taken with compensation for projects determined to serve a public purpose, which in my eyes, this case does not
[09:27] which in my eyes, this case does not exemplify. There is no good argument, no AI data center leeching off your community is actually serving the public in a meaningful way. Thus, I really don't think imminent domain should have
[09:42] like that's you just wipe your ass with that here. But of course, then the local argument, no, this is actually so good for all of us. We all benefit from it. But again, none of the data supports that. It doesn't. But yeah, imminent
[09:57] domain, the idea behind it is like highways and [ __ ] And typically the way it's employed is like instead of taking entire properties, entire homes, they take like bits and pieces of them like of their parcel to like extend things or
[10:11] build things through it. It's not overly common to take entire houses like this common to take entire houses like this through imminent domain, but it it has happened in the past. And in this case, it was something they were fearful of.
[10:26] I'm guessing it was something that was at least tossed around as a uh potential option, a last resort according to Georgia Power. And I just don't think that's right. Again, for data centers, this is not in the interest of the
[10:40] community. It's for their own selfish interest and their own selfish financial gain that exploits the community and actively takes people's homes. Now, in imminent domain, they do have to give give compensation to the families at
[10:55] fair market price, but there's also a little bit of wiggle room there as well, arguing what is fair market price. So, like I don't know what they ended up selling the house for, but it wasn't generational wealth. Obviously,
[11:10] >> Holly love it is a Georgia power spokesperson. Imminent domain is always, you know, a last resort for us and it's something we never want to do. >> To us, it's theft. It's literally a billion dollar company stealing land
[11:26] from smaller people, people who can't fight back. We don't have the money to >> So that's why a few months ago, Ansley took her story to Tik Tok. Georgia Power. >> She began sharing stories of others in
[11:41] similar situations. The Georgia Power spokesperson, I'm pretty sure, is powered by Claude. Uh, she is giving like the most boilerplate PR [ __ ] you're ever going to hear in your life and can't even begin to teeter on the realm
[11:53] of even sounding human anymore. So, anyway, uh, she blew this story up on TikTok about how her childhood home was being taken. And I agree with what she says. It feels like theft to me as well. These are billion-dollar corporations.
[12:08] corporation coming through and they are taking so much land in order to fulfill the power demands of the AI data center that I know for sure normal civilians weren't pumping their fist celebrating cuz no normal people with functioning
[12:22] frontal loes want data centers in their community. It is bad for them. So, this was already something that they didn't want and now they're being even further impacted negatively by it. It is a slap in the face. They're taking their home.
[12:38] They It's a forced sea sale. And the spokesperson even says, "Yeah, we don't stuff. We we know that's the nuclear option. It's always a last resort for us. We don't like to do it." But I mean, you know, it's someone's got to
[12:52] get the dirty work done down in the piggy pin. Like, it is an it is something and we got to do it. So, they know that families like this can't fight back. as they said, it's too expensive to go up against Georgia Power. And they
[13:05] way or the other, either through imminent domain and getting whatever wacky compensation they pull out of their ass deemed fair market price, or they just take the offer of the uh purchase of the um the sale. Like,
[13:19] whatever they're offering, they just have to accept because they don't have a choice. They can't fight it, and it's just a losing battle. It sucks. Like this is a home that clearly this family has had for a long time now. It has a
[13:33] lot of meaning, a lot of memories. It wasn't one they wanted to sell and it's one they fought to keep for an extended period of time. But going up against the local government, billion-dollar corporations, these vampires, it's just
[13:47] a losing battle and it just shouldn't be that way. Like again, it is very clearly not in the interest of serving the public. This is serving the AI overlords. That's it. the people that make money off these data centers, not
[14:00] the community. They don't see this. It's not a boon, it's a [ __ ] curse. I want about this, but I've been getting pretty conspiratorial on uh AI data centers uh the the crackpipe I've been hitting in that regard. So, get your tin foil
[14:16] condoms ready. I was reading something that someone was sharing about like when impact it had on their water, cuz that's a very common thing. And I've just really been toying around with this idea and I've seen other people kind of talk
[14:29] about it occasionally as well. And I'm not fully bought into it hookline and sinker, but it's an interesting theory, a little game theory. What if the reason there's been seemingly so much more sickness? Like it
[14:42] feels like people are getting sick more frequently now and a wide variety of illnesses just seem more common now. What if AI data centers are hoarding all of the clean water? because obviously they are gluttonous. Like they are so
[14:57] thirsty with an unquenchable thirst. What if all the clean water is being diverted to the AI data centers and the normal civilians are just getting the sludge, runoff, polluted, contaminated garbage water in their tap and
[15:09] everything. I don't think it's unrealistic. I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility here. Like again, there are plenty of examples of where an AI data center was like, "Oh, whoopsy daisy. It looks like we were
[15:21] taking all of the residents water, like significantly more than we told you guys we were. Whoops. What a It was like a rounding error. We took like so much got caught red-handed doing so. So, they're like, "Oh, yeah. We looked into
[15:33] Here, we'll give you guys some more back." Trickling it down. So, like, what if they are using all of the clean water and you're just getting trash poopy water? Just absolute [ __ ] water. Like, I feel like maybe. Of course, I
[15:49] have no evidence to back that up other than just my own observations and my own little wacky ideas, but I don't know. They are evil enough to do that. No doubt in my mind. So, who who knows? Just something fun to play with as a
[16:03] little a little thought to to kick around, I think. Just wanted to share that cuz I I [ __ ] hate data centers. I am a D1 AI data center hater. So maybe I'm a bit blindness by uh my madness on the whole thing, but genuinely
[16:16] the whole thing, but genuinely everything evil about companies is particular. >> What do you say to someone who will push back on any sort of offer that's out there and say, "Well, a price tag can't
[16:30] replace memories." >> Oh gosh. You know, it almost makes me emotional cuz I I have those memories in like my house and I get how deeply personal people's homes are. I would just say that
[16:44] just say that we see you and we hear you and we want this process to be respectful and transparent and that is going to ultimately benefit you. >> Barbecue chicken alert. Barbecue chicken
[16:57] >> Barbecue chicken alert. Barbecue chicken alert. Nope. I also love how she's like, alert. Nope. I also love how she's like, "Oh yeah, hearing that." Wow. It almost makes me emotional. I almost feel something, but then I remember all the
[17:10] clams. I remember all the money. Like, I can't feel anything. Are you kidding me? No. But yeah, we see you and and we hear you. By the way, we're not going to take your [ __ ] but like we we like see you and hear you, I guess. Like, go
[17:23] away. It's going to benefit you. Don't you know? Like, this is this is for you, by the way. We know best. It's for you. So yeah, we're going to take your land, but like we like see you and hear you. It's a really powerful statement. Thank
[17:35] you so much, Georgia Power spokesperson. I almost can't help but be impressed by the goblygook here. Like they openly say 70 to 80% of the power from these new
[17:47] lines is solely for data centers. Like they openly say that and I imagine it's probably going to be more. Again, those numbers are the ones they report to the as good as possible and that's the best they could do. Like I I bet it's going
[18:00] to be north of that. But even even with that, only a measly like up to 30% is for you, the actual civilians in the community. And I imagine the argument
[18:13] center is for you, the civilians in the community. How it's not like you could other communities that have been asslasted by data centers. It's just
[18:25] wrong. And I think I I at least think most people see through the deception. I don't think many people fall for this garbage anymore. But the problem is the governments there are just already fully
[18:38] corrupt and they don't care. There have been so many people protesting vocally against it, going to all the meetings, voicing their concerns, and it just falls on deaf ears and they still push all this [ __ ] through anyway against the
[18:52] elected to lead. That's just the state of it right now, unfortunately, in so many places in this country. >> Brown doesn't buy that. And while she knows it's too late to save her home, she says she doesn't want to see this
[19:06] happen to anyone else. >> My mom wants an apology. >> My mom wants an apology. She wants an apology from Georgia Power. >> And it's because of how she feels as if she's been treated.
[19:18] >> Yeah. Yeah. I mean for an entire year they have bullied her and there is no sorry. So that's what we want. We want an apology from Georgia >> Such important reporting there from our Skyler Henry. Thank you.
[19:34] there. I think it is extremely valuable to showcase the impact data centers have on the locals when they swoop in here and what it does to communities. So, I always appreciate reporters that are willing to highlight this because it is
[19:48] a very negative thing that is being normalized now as just like a suck it up and deal with it type of thing. And these [ __ ] monsters are so emboldened that they will just out loud say that if you are against data centers that you're
[20:01] the problem. I already covered this, but the Black Rockck CEO, that [ __ ] goober, man, was really loosey goosey with domestic terrorism in regards to people against AI data centers. by the way, expecting like [ __ ] drone
[20:16] data centers. So they were coming up with like counterterrorism ideas to protect data centers from the menace of normal people being outraged that data centers came in and butt [ __ ] them. It's just like they're
[20:31] they're just being so brazen with it. Like it sucks. I know I've yapped about it a lot. I'm going to keep yapping about it cuz it is out of control. It is this family. I doubt they get an apology from Georgia Power or the AI data center
[20:47] uh top brass or anything. At best, maybe they get like a really hollow sorry bub and that's it. Or maybe they even get like a little gift basket, a little
[20:59] club subscription or something. Who really knows? But it won't be anything really knows? But it won't be anything meaningful at all. And nothing's going to, you know, have this come to Jesus moment for Georgia power or anything.
[21:12] moment for Georgia power or anything. It's just [ __ ] It's just so want to yap about it. That's really about it. See you.