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Hello, and thank you for tuning in to a Sharp
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Outlook on K four HD Radio and Talk or TV.
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I am Angela Sharp, your host. Our arm chair discussions
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with industry experts will give you the steps, tools and
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information to be successful in business and to prepare you
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to be your best self. Hello, I'm Angela Sharp, and
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welcome to our show. It's going to be an interesting
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one and I would like everyone to pay close attention
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because there are things that are going on that affect
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a lot of people. Just imagine being in an environment
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where things are polluted, not only polluted, but ignored. A
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community fight for EPA intervention. Residents are describing the smell,
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the water, the health effects. Community members have a higher
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than normal rate of cancers, lung disease, and organ failures.
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Today we're asking when your neighborhood is polluted, how do
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you make the EPA do something about it? What happens
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when the jurisdiction from the EPA fails to do their
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job and endangers communities and residents. One thing you can't
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ignore is the pollution. You can't ignore the noises that
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are made, can't ignore the smells. You can't ignore the
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bad water. You can't ignore the green gas pollution. It
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can't be ignored. And we're going to talk about it
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today because we need voices that are going to stand
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up and say, Okay, there's some things we have had
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enough of, and today we're going to talk about it.
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My guest today as Catherine Chitwood. She is a technology
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founder and systems architect focused on deep tech through her
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venture making Smiles Happen. As the lead auditor for Case
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five one one, she specializes in the msh U one
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one Dignity Protocol, a forensic framework designed to bridge the
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gap between AI energy usage and ecological responsibility. Her work
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identifies infrastructure necrosis by auditing the divergence I mean digital
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ledgers and physical resource solvency. I'd like to invite Catherine
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to join me because we want to talk about this
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and have time thoroughly to discuss the things that are happening.
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Because everybody is all excited about AI, but there are
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some things that are happening because of all of the
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data centers, and we need to talk about that truthfully,
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authentically and let you know what's really going on so
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then we can have some resolutions and solutions. So Catherine,
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thank you for joining me today.
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Yeah, I'm very excited.
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Yeah. You know, as I was kind of preparing for
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this show, I really started thinking about it because I
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work in tech and I started when the first PC
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came out, so we didn't have these kinds of issues
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that we have now, and I've seen the progression and
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the revolution of technology, and you know, I'm excited about
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the next stage. But you know, the next stage always
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means there needs to be some preparations. So kind of
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tell me about some of the pollution problems where you live,
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or what do you see and smell experience every day.
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So I am about I'm five miles away from the
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Klispell tribe and they they're phenomenal stewards of our community.
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And one of the big things with AI and data
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is the noise and so there's a certain decibel level
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that it's it's it impacts the the animals, the people,
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and there's scientific proof that shows that it can cause
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disruption in your can cause physiological problems, anxiety and things
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like that, and it's an invisible threat and so you
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can be living in it a canmun unity and not
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realize that is what's causing it. And a lot of
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these large corporations, they've it's been kind of built into
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their business model to financially be able, to avoid accountability,
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and we're learning that's not healthy for our economy and
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for our people. And so just because something has money
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on paper doesn't mean that it's good for our community.
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So we introduced AI and it's great. And like you said,
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you know, we went from analog systems and Internet being introduced,
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and we're kind of in this window of time where
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AI is this phenomenal evolution of that processing power, but
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it's not being fully applied to our governance in a
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way that can kind of help make some of these
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help some pride, some solutions.
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So instead, we.
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Have over five thousand AI plants in the United States
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and China has less than five hundred. Right, we have
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a ton of them, and we brought them all in
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because they're you know, they're the next step.
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Their analog computer systems, they don't talk to each other
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the same way that like AI systems can, and so
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we have this black hole where it's not being It's
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not that the work's not being done, it's just that
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it's the computers aren't talking to each other. And so
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now we've got five thousand data plants across the country
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and we're we're seeing ecological environmental damage and data breaches.
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They specifically, uh, you know, with our legacy systems, how
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we learned how to organize our information was based just
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normal draft records and homes and things like that. As
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history progressed, well, IBM was used during World War two.
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Cost that it's a technology firm, and it's not to
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say the technology is a bad thing, but how it's
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applied absolutely can affect human beings. And we have to
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not take our autonomy out of the autonomous systems that
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we're trying to apply to help the people, because right
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now they're kind of being they're being out of their
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lifted out of their jobs because all these firms are
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trying to finance you know, the AI boom, but that
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money isn't getting to the people's and then environmentally, it's
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really causing a lot of problems. So we see like
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in Oregon, I've looked at studies where twenty five out
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of thirty homes in the Uma River basin there were
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miscarriage cases. There's a lot of high nitrate and chemical
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Not necessarily the chemicals are coming like that anybody at
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the particular facility is doing anything wrong with chemicals. What
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it is is it's the it's the infrastructure damage that
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is done by fans. So when there's thousands of fans
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that are running, that causes vibration. And so it also
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when you're running a really like a lot of megawats,
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that's pulling power away from the municipal systems, so you'll
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have like draw downs and lags. And when you have
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that and you're on a closed loop system you're plumbing,
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that causes a drop in the pressure of your water power,
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and so there's more of the you know, the bacteria
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whatever or alfhi bluem essentially.
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Combatant to that for most counties would be that they
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it's typical to use a certain safe number or certain
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safe level of like a chlorine flush. But we're seeing
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more commonly in these counts that that's being used as
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It's not being used as like an emergency measure to
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balance the types. It's being used as like we got
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to clear out again because they were getting all gunked
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up and yucky.
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Well, then that chlorine makes it to the people.
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So yeah, it sounds like, okay, you know, we just
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really have a major problem here. Yeah we knew this, Yeah,
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because we did have you know, small, smaller usage of
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the data centers now, and they knew exactly what was
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going to be required. Why didn't somebody set up a
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plan of how we're going to do this safely. Why
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didn't they consider, Hello, use some dollars to rebuild the
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infrastructure we have so it could handle some of these
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areas don't even have they've never even had Wi Fi
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because they didn't have infrastructure. And now you want to
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with these enormous data centers and their communities and just
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flood them with all of these pollutants because you don't
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have a good infrastructure to start with, you know, I
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mean I was in a storm back in South Dakota
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and we were shut down for weeks and weeks and
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weeks from a snowstorm because the infrastructure, the electrical system
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that we had the grids, had not been changed since
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nineteen twenty two something that's like, are you kidding me?
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This two thousand? Come on, people, you know what are
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you doing with the money? And this is and so
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now everybody has to suffer because people didn't plan. And
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then when there's money involved, everyone jumps on board these
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these You know, I love tech, but I know that
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this is, to me, is very irresponsible that you didn't
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think about the fact that you were going to need
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data centers, you were going to need to have some
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way of cooling these this equipment so that it could
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manage all of this. And then now you've got everybody
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in the world in there wanting to do their little
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cat thing all day, loll on the system, and it's
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just using up, using up fresh water. We barely have
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fresh water now because of other pollutants that we've had,
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and now we're doing this without any consider This is
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what frustrates me. When did somebody do what do you
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call it an environmental study to see what the results
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were going to be. It's not like you hadn't used
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data centers, because you know, when we first went to
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the cloud, you had to have data centers, so you
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knew how much was going to be needed. You knew
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the needed a cooling system, you knew you were going
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to need the water, and yet you didn't do anything
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to build us structure that could really manage this better
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than what we're doing right now. I mean, what is that.
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It's not like you didn't have the money. I know
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you all got the money. You corporations. I've worked for corporations.
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You had the money to do this right. And I.
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Hate to say, but it it.
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I think that what we're coming to in our country
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is it's really going to show who the what entities
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and states are trying to play above board and which
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ones are maybe trying to present as if they are
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above board.
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Because when our particular facility.
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Was brought in here, it was like twenty twenty, So
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I was thinking about the timeline like AI for it
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to have been brought in here at that time, that's
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way before we had before the general public knew a
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whole lot about AI and data, and I was thinking
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the same thing, like why would they put that into
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a rural community and it's kind of.
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A doubleshed sword.
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It's like we're rural communities who are a high concentration,
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high population of retired there. They have their land, but
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that's what they have under their feet. They're not they're
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not rich in money. They have what they have to
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hold on to and they've made a lot of them
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have made the sacrifice that their sons and daughters didn't
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have to to go into the military. And when our
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AI and data facilities have been established based off of
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the data that we have recorded, then one of the
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biggest ones is going to be our military files all
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around the world, every country, and so it really creates
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a perfect it's a microcosm. It's like they could see
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us on a map and we couldn't see them, and
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our military wouldn't have known to be looking for evil.
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They wouldn't know when they when someone comes and the
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person is in uniform and they're they're acting as on
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behalf of AI Corporation as opposed to on behalf of
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the uniform that they're wearing our military. Our local residents
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are going to see that as a respectful person, an
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individual that they can trust, whereas that person is not
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representing on behalf of our country and on behalf of
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us as people. They're representing the firm that is making money.
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They have an you know, an objective there, and so
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that's very It makes me feel frustrated, like how dare
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you take advantage? And then you know when So I
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ended up my husband worked for this data facility and
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I dropped off a letter of intent for them to
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reclassify to agricultural and I did that the first week
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of January and they responded to that by calling the
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sheriff on me. And then a month later they had
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they terminated in and I had filed with the SEC
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as a whistleblower. They know that, and it kind of
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was just it's it's hard because I the more that
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I'm reading, the more I'm learning is that this is
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a pretty common tactic when there's regulatory capture. And that's
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why we have to have transparent systems in places, because
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somebody can say that they are they're doing their job,
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but it's our right now.
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They're even hiding. Yeah, they're lighting with the names of
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the company that's even there. They're putting in different names
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and you know, so that that you know is pretty concerning.
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You know, you need to own up if you're going
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to go in and destroy a community, own up that
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you're the person responsible for it, because you're the one