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[00:00:01] We were offered 26 million dollars, but this money will not
[00:00:05] replace 500 acres of land, everything on it. In
[00:00:09] the run-up to the midterm elections, this topic became a political
[00:00:12] battleground. There are communities that really want to have
[00:00:16] data centers, these are smart communities. This is what the drinking water in Morgan
[00:00:19] County, Georgia, looks like now, right after
[00:00:23] the construction of the Meta
[00:00:24] data center.
[00:00:31] America's AI boom, who pays for it?
[00:00:34] расплачивается?
[00:00:37] Ines
[00:00:38] Pol reports.
[00:00:45] We love this place for the land, for the countryside where our
[00:00:49] girls grow up, they love playing in the woods, they spend
[00:00:52] all their time
[00:00:53] outdoors.
[00:00:58] That's why Robin, Angus and...
[00:01:30] When Robin and her husband bought this property, they didn't know that
[00:01:34] the future of artificial intelligence was about to knock on their door.
[00:01:38] Robin joined neighbors opposing the zoning
[00:01:42] change and began regularly speaking at county
[00:01:45] meetings.
[00:01:49] These are gigantic scales, it's not just one building, one
[00:01:53] data center. These are entire campuses. We know of
[00:01:56] five such projects. The number of buildings they are assembling.
[00:02:14] Good evening, honorable members of the commission, Mr. Chairman,
[00:02:17] staff, thank you for giving me the floor. This site borders
[00:02:21] more than 400 acres of residential development. Nearly a thousand
[00:02:24] children attend nearby schools. The cancellation of the first condition
[00:02:28] will forever remain in memory.
[00:02:37] We asked members of the elected governing body of Coweta County who supported the project to explain
[00:02:41] their position, they refused to talk to
[00:02:44] us. No comment.
[00:02:47] The 2,650 acre
[00:02:51] data center complex will consist of five facilities, planned for construction on
[00:02:54] land that has long remained predominantly
[00:02:58] rural. Robin's house is very close by, in
[00:03:01] Georgia, the number of data centers is rapidly growing, with over 100
[00:03:05] projects planned across
[00:03:07] the state.
[00:03:09] This is also part of a much larger
[00:03:12] national boom. The US already has over
[00:03:16] 1,300 data centers, and over 2,0 more facilities
[00:03:19] are in development, with 2/3 of them located in
[00:03:23] rural areas.
[00:03:26] So why are all these data centers being built anyway?
[00:03:30] Because AI is no longer just a technology we use
[00:03:34] occasionally. It is becoming part of everyday
[00:03:37] life, from search engines and chatbots to medicine,
[00:03:41] business, and how we work. Every time we
[00:03:44] ask AI a question, generate an image,
[00:03:47] analyze data, or use an AI-powered service, that request
[00:03:51] has to be processed somewhere. Increasingly, that somewhere
[00:03:55] is a huge data center, filled with
[00:03:58] thousands of powerful computers. Georgia, he
[00:04:30] studies how technological changes transform
[00:04:33] society. They really require a lot of
[00:04:36] energy to perform calculations on these servers 24/7 without
[00:04:40] interruption. There's nothing new about this, it's just that these days
[00:04:44] the scale has become much larger. And it's not just about
[00:04:47] electricity. These machines generate a huge amount of heat,
[00:04:50] and cooling them can require a huge amount of
[00:04:54] water. Zen draws a parallel with another major source of
[00:04:57] water consumption.
[00:05:00] People don't complain about how much water is used for a golf
[00:05:03] course, but in fact it's comparable
[00:05:07] to the needs of typical data centers,
[00:05:10] at least on an annual basis.
[00:05:16] Moreover, thanks to the latest cooling
[00:05:19] technologies,
[00:05:20] охлаждения,
[00:05:23] in particular closed-loop
[00:05:25] systems,
[00:05:28] allowing water to be reused within
[00:05:30] the facility, water consumption in the future
[00:05:34] will significantly decrease.
[00:05:37] In Virginia, where more data centers are concentrated
[00:05:40] than anywhere else in the country, residents
[00:05:42] are already feeling the effects of such large-scale industrial facilities in their
[00:05:46] areas.
[00:05:49] The power plant emits a lot of pollutants,
[00:05:52] and people feel
[00:05:54] it.
[00:05:59] This affects our health. Personally, I
[00:06:02] developed dry eye syndrome because of it. The facility was
[00:06:06] built just 140 meters from the home of historian and writer
[00:06:10] Gregory Alonzo Pirio.
[00:06:14] The data centers began operation in February of last year, meaning
[00:06:18] in 2025.
[00:06:22] How did we find out about this? We heard all this noise and
[00:06:25] had no idea what
[00:06:27] it was.
[00:06:32] This noise gives me a headache,
[00:06:36] and because of it, I don't go outside as
[00:06:38] often now.
[00:06:44] We contacted the company operating these facilities
[00:06:47] to respond to residents' concerns.
[00:06:51] We received no response. What is happening here is part of
[00:06:55] a much larger struggle over how and where the US will build
[00:06:58] the infrastructure needed for artificial intelligence.
[00:07:02] In the south, the number of
[00:07:04] data centers is growing rapidly.
[00:07:13] Partly because we have the necessary resources,
[00:07:17] land, energy and water, but also because
[00:07:20] there is almost no regulation here, especially in environmental
[00:07:23] protection. We have almost
[00:07:26] no requirements for utility companies to ensure
[00:07:29] transparency in their work.
[00:07:33] There is a clear economic incentive, these massive facilities
[00:07:36] bring in billions of dollars in investments, tax
[00:07:40] revenues, and jobs.
[00:08:02] This provides a lot of jobs, but at the same time I hear that local residents are having problems. For communities weighing these benefits and potential risks,
[00:08:06] the discussion is becoming increasingly
[00:08:07] heated.
[00:08:11] The community is very indignant, and I
[00:08:14] think more and more of them are deciding to
[00:08:18] slow down,
[00:08:21] at least to introduce moratoriums,
[00:08:25] until additional laws are passed regarding zoning and
[00:08:29] regulation.
[00:08:31] Ber and her mother Ayda Hudleston raise cattle on
[00:08:34] land owned by their family since 1848,
[00:08:38] how can you eat concrete, no way. To me.
[00:09:25] our schools, and a project of this scale will bring local schools
[00:09:29] additional revenue related to this huge increase in
[00:09:32] energy consumption and will practically double their budget.
[00:09:36] The developer also promised to help finance a new water treatment
[00:09:40] plant costing 80 million. In
[00:09:43] addition, this location offers what data centers desperately
[00:09:46] need. It all comes down to the availability of
[00:09:49] electricity for our Spurlock Power Plant,
[00:09:53] located about 3 km north of here. It's
[00:09:56] over there, as you can see, a significant portion of
[00:09:59] the power line infrastructure is already
[00:10:02] built. Since their story made national
[00:10:05] news, Dalsiya and Ayda have been receiving letters of support from all over
[00:10:09] the country. The data center dispute has also put
[00:10:12] her in a difficult position, she says she voted for
[00:10:15] Donald Trump twice, but strongly opposes his support for this
[00:10:19] industry, let him put his money where his mouth is. If data centers are really that good and harmless...
[00:10:23] Let him build such a center at his Mar-a-Lago, his favorite place on
[00:10:26] Earth, and if he doesn't,
[00:10:30] then he's a hypocrite, because he wants to build it on my land. In
[00:10:33] the run-up to the midterm elections, the issue of data centers is increasingly becoming
[00:10:37] a national topic of discussion. There are communities
[00:10:41] that really want to have data centers. These are smart
[00:10:44] communities, because that means a huge number of
[00:10:48] jobs. Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria
[00:10:51] Ocasio-Cortez argues that local communities suffer from environmental issues.
[00:10:57] Look at this can,
[00:11:00] this is what the drinking water in Morgan County, Georgia,
[00:11:03] looks like now.
[00:11:06] Right after the construction of the Meta
[00:11:09] data center.
[00:11:12] Authorities state that they are investigating the causes of
[00:11:14] the pollution.
[00:11:17] Just as we were finishing our report, news broke that
[00:11:21] in Coweta County, the commission members voted against the project.
[00:11:27] We took this on not knowing how it would end, and this is just the most
[00:11:31] amazing news for us. However, I approach this with a grain of
[00:11:35] skepticism. We must be prepared for them to possibly
[00:11:39] return in six months. Across
[00:11:41] America, hundreds more data centers are planned,
[00:11:45] and resistance is growing. From Georgia to Kentucky, the fight is not
[00:11:48] just about land. It's about who benefits from
[00:11:52] America's artificial intelligence boom. Who pays for it?
[00:12:42] story diverged. For the State Duma elections, the authorities cleared
[00:12:46] the space as much as possible so that they would go as calmly as possible for the
[00:12:49] Kremlin. But at the same time as the federal voting, regional
[00:12:53] legislative assemblies are being elected.
[00:12:55] There, there's a different scale of campaign, different barriers, sometimes a different
[00:12:58] space for political competition. The topic will be continued by
[00:13:02] the host of the program Face to Face with the Event, Artem
[00:13:04] Radygin.
[00:13:09] It seems this year it died. All the
[00:13:12] intrigue in the elections: parties spend many times less on campaigning,
[00:13:15] candidates don't come to debates, and if they do come,
[00:13:19] besides a rehearsed phrase, they can't say anything.
[00:13:23] The state, them. will support,
[00:13:26] support for large families begins with supporting one
[00:13:30] child,
[00:13:33] essentially that's all, that's all, yes, we have to, we have to
[00:13:37] wait, and this is your time, suddenly something will come to mind, no, nothing
[00:13:40] else, political scientist Alexander Kynev
[00:13:44] calculated that out of a hundred candidates not from parliamentary
[00:13:47] parties, the CEC registered only about a dozen,
[00:13:50] the reason is signature collection, their quality the election commission interprets
[00:13:54] very... freely, these are the most uncontested
[00:13:58] elections in the entire history of modern Russia, the political scientist
[00:14:01] Denis Levin comes to the same conclusion.
[00:14:05] Self-nomination in 2026
[00:14:07] has rather disappeared as a real working way to
[00:14:11] get into the ballots.
[00:14:14] And in the 2021 elections it was already rather
[00:14:17] a nonsense. Around 10
[00:14:21] people passed the signature barrier across the country then. But that's all, kind of.
[00:15:06] received money from abroad, posted on
[00:15:08] social networks that other parties don't use, and without
[00:15:12] asking showed the Sberbank logo. These are all pretexts
[00:15:16] under which Yabloko candidates were removed in
[00:15:19] Bashkortostan, Karelia, Tatarstan, Kaliningrad,
[00:15:22] Sverdlovsk regions. In the latter, by the way, on the seventh.
[00:15:38] This is right, this is law, and this is
[00:15:40] justice. Unfortunately, lately our courts
[00:15:44] are associated with other words. This is fear, this is
[00:15:48] phone law, and so on. Konstantin Kiselyov,
[00:15:51] the leader of Yabloko in the Yekaterinburg City Duma, was detained by police on
[00:15:54] his way to the debates. At the station, he was charged
[00:15:57] with an administrative article for displaying extremist
[00:16:00] symbols. His colleagues in the Sverdlovsk region were accused of the same
[00:16:04] thing. The risk of continued
[00:16:08] pressure on the party is undoubtedly there, of course, it's there, we
[00:16:11] see it, including in the pressure on our candidates daily,
[00:16:15] but dear friends, I want to say once again that our
[00:16:18] position is known, it is unchanged, we will do everything
[00:16:22] possible to ensure that, so that
[00:16:25] peace returns, so that people stop dying, although the fine for so-called
[00:16:28] extremist symbols is
[00:16:32] only 200 rubles, for a politician it means
[00:16:35] that for another year in...
[00:17:07] much simpler. According to Verstka, almost 40
[00:17:10] regional candidates for the State Duma have already dropped out of
[00:17:14] the race due to Facebook logos, owning
[00:17:16] foreign shares, and posts about Navalny.
[00:17:19] The latter, in fact, takes away the right to run for a whole year.
[00:17:23] Therefore, in these elections, with rare exceptions, of course,
[00:17:27] there are no well-known opposition members. Elections are
[00:17:30] not about, well, in Russia in 206 year, yes, it's not about achieving some
[00:17:34] numbers, results, but about inflicting the greatest damage. The party in
[00:17:37] power is creating a point of some social and political
[00:17:40] tension, in this sense, it seems to me, yes, indeed many people understand
[00:17:44] it this way and do exactly that, in this
[00:17:47] sense, perhaps the Yabloko party can also be singled out, because
[00:17:49] well, the party's top
[00:17:53] , most media-visible figures, are simply imprisoned, this is
[00:17:57] like the strongest Moscow, so, comrade Kruglov,
[00:18:00] the second strongest is
[00:18:03] Shlosberg, yes, on Emilia Slabunova in Karelia, also, yes, also. There are
[00:18:07] constant some disputes
[00:18:09] - so I understand that
[00:18:13] some other VIPs
[00:18:17] also chose not to run in the elections. Social tension
[00:18:21] is expected by research fellow at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
[00:18:24] Andrei Pertsev. According to him, the Kremlin has never found it so difficult to
[00:18:27] draw a confident majority for United Russia.
[00:18:30] To be sure to win more than half the seats in the State Duma,
[00:18:34] the presidential administration even lowered the unofficial.
[00:19:30] falling ratings of United Russia, growing demand for the end of
[00:19:34] the war, and among all parliamentary parties, even...
[00:20:07] include some of these rebellious regional
[00:20:11] CPRF members, but this is a bad decision, right, so
[00:20:14] of course the CPRF to a certain extent is a controlled party, like all parties in
[00:20:18] Russia, but I would say that along with Yabloko
[00:20:22] it is one of the most uncontrolled controlled parties. Moscow,
[00:20:26] Komi, Irkutsk, Krasnodar, Perm, Altai
[00:20:29] Krai, Khakassia and Buryatia. In these regions, says
[00:20:32] the political scientist, there are still candidates who do not
[00:20:36] support the war.
[00:20:38] Yes, they are running for the Duma and legislative assemblies with a pro-war CPRF
[00:20:42] campaign, but they try not to talk about the war, that
[00:20:45] is, in the so-called victory program
[00:20:48] it talks about victory in...
[00:21:21] Yes, in Kamchatka it's still good, in Kamchatka you can also watch, there's a strong
[00:21:24] branch, they were dispersed for several years, dispersed, but not
[00:21:28] completely dispersed. In Buryatia, the leading region in terms of losses from
[00:21:32] mobilization, the CPRF nominated a candidate with
[00:21:35] the slogan Peace to the World. Bair
[00:21:38] Tsirenov's campaign video even begins with the words, when will
[00:21:41] the SVO end? The politician actively criticizes United
[00:21:45] Russia, but Tsirenov himself
[00:21:48] explains why. He scolds the ruling party.
[00:21:52] To defend in honor of United Russia, which does not need defending, which
[00:21:55] has already failed everything possible in this country. I urge
[00:21:59] Doshibal to come to the next debates, to participate in them,
[00:22:02] to honestly discuss the problems of our republic together, otherwise we will
[00:22:06] not be able to get out of this mire, otherwise we will not be able to help our
[00:22:09] thousands of fighters who are at the front and their families. Although
[00:22:13] it is difficult to call registered candidates fully anti-war,
[00:22:16] politician Mikhail Labanov sees in regional
[00:22:20] campaigns a chance for anti-war, or at least
[00:22:24] simply opposition sentiments, to be somehow
[00:22:27] represented in the Duma or in legislative
[00:22:30] assemblies. In Buryatia, this is possible, it generally characterizes
[00:22:34] the entire regional organization, in general, because since he was
[00:22:37] nominated, understanding what he is capable of, there is also
[00:22:41] Marhaev as a leader, yes, therefore, in principle,
[00:22:45] so to speak, on average across the region, it is
[00:22:48] rather anti-war.
[00:23:20] doesn't always know the details of regional campaigns, but
[00:23:23] if regional politicians cause problems for
[00:23:26] the leadership, then the party itself will remove the undesirable ones from
[00:23:30] the elections. What
[00:23:33] exactly has the eighth convocation of the State Duma changed in 5 years and
[00:23:36] what legislative legacy does it leave to
[00:23:39] the next convocation, will be told by the host of the program "A Person Has the Right,"
[00:23:43] Maryana Torocheshnikova. Starting its work in the pre-war
[00:23:47] 2021, the eighth convocation of the State
[00:23:50] Duma became the first convocation of wartime and a shock worker of
[00:23:54] legislative production, with a result of
[00:23:56] 2980 federal laws,
[00:24:00] an absolute maximum among all convocations. Perhaps this is no longer
[00:24:03] a mad printer, but a full-fledged printing
[00:24:06] press. SVO defense and security became the central
[00:24:10] theme of the eighth convocation, it was this Duma
[00:24:13] on February 15, 2022
[00:24:16] that appealed to Vladimir Putin with a request to recognize.
[00:24:33] after which the Federation Council authorized the use of Russian
[00:24:36] armed forces outside the country. We will strive for the demilitarization
[00:24:40] and denazification of Ukraine. And Vladimir Putin
[00:24:43] announced the start of a special military operation, which has been going on for the fifth
[00:24:47] year and which Russians are not allowed to call
[00:24:51] a war, for
[00:24:53] which they can be fined or
[00:24:56] for this too, citizens should be grateful to the Duma, which in
[00:25:00] March 2022 adopted amendments in a package,
[00:25:03] establishing responsibility for so-called military fakes,
[00:25:07] discrediting the army and
[00:25:08] authorities.
[00:25:13] Deputies prescribed social guarantees and payments, benefits for
[00:25:16] military personnel, veterans, and their families, and amended laws
[00:25:20] related to military service, in particular, made conscription
[00:25:23] year-round and expanded the boundaries of conscription age,
[00:25:27] introduced a unified military registration system and various
[00:25:30] sanctions for draft dodgers, allowed prisoners to exchange
[00:25:33] prison for war and generally escape investigation to
[00:25:37] the front without waiting for trial. One can face trial, thanks to new laws, for example, for voluntarily
[00:25:41] surrendering in captivity,
[00:25:44] punishments for disobeying orders and for unauthorized abandonment of a
[00:25:47] unit have significantly toughened. The terms for sabotage
[00:25:51] and high treason have increased, and now criminal responsibility for sabotage
[00:25:54] begins at 14 years old, and almost everything can
[00:25:58] be considered high treason, from photographing gravestones to
[00:26:01] participating in a conference. In general, deputies spent
[00:26:04] a lot of time fighting external and internal enemies.
[00:26:08] They passed laws on numerous restrictions for
[00:26:12] foreign agents, opposition-minded relocators, and
[00:26:15] expanded the powers of the FSB, which, in
[00:26:18] particular, was allowed to create and maintain its own
[00:26:21] detention centers. At the direction of the Federal Security Service,
[00:26:25] operators are now obliged to suspend Internet, telephone,
[00:26:28] and SMS communications.
[00:26:31] And a law was also passed on the protection of the Russian language in public
[00:26:34] spaces, according to which signs, pointers, and advertisements
[00:26:38] must be only in
[00:26:39] Russian.
[00:26:42] In the autumn of 2022, the deputies unanimously
[00:26:46] ratified treaties on the accession to Russia of the so-called
[00:26:49] Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, Zaporozhye
[00:26:53] and Kherson regions, which required a large-scale
[00:26:57] restructuring of the legal space. Due to the war and sanctions, the legislative
[00:27:00] activity of the eighth convocation of the Duma.
[00:28:02] Russian children citizens of countries where gender change is
[00:28:05] permitted. Now, under the pretext of fighting fraudsters,
[00:28:08] WhatsApp and Telegram are being blocked in Russia, but fraudsters
[00:28:12] have perfectly mastered Max. This is a national messenger for
[00:28:15] widespread voluntary-compulsory implementation, for which, by the way, the State Duma
[00:28:19] adopted many amendments to various
[00:28:22] laws. Summarizing the work of the State Duma of the eighth convocation, its speaker
[00:28:26] Vyacheslav Volodin called accusations that it is
[00:28:29] focused on prohibitions inappropriate, because deputies
[00:28:32] adopt laws exclusively at the request of citizens, and those very
[00:28:36] prohibitive measures, according to Volodin, are in fact
[00:28:40] protection for the younger generation and adults who
[00:28:43] have gone astray.
[00:28:44] пути.
[00:28:53] Probably since the early 2000s,
[00:28:57] the cultural environment for me became first
[00:29:00] uncomfortable, then completely...
[00:29:32] necessary measures so that children under 15 years old, orphaned
[00:29:36] or separated from their families due to
[00:29:39] the war, were not left to their own devices.
[00:30:56] In Texas, people are increasingly repeating the local and main city.