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BY KEITH AMMON: In 1956, the first hard drive weighed a ton and held about as much data as a single photo on your phone. Today, one AI data center processes more data in an afternoon than humanity wrote in its first five thousand years. We are living through the fastest infrastructure buildout in history, and few understand what these buildings do. Everyone has a smartphone. Every photo you upload, every question you ask an AI, and every package tracked to your doorstep passes through a data center.

Daily news feeds present applause lines, and numerous movies include framing shots with wind turbines — blatantly or subtly promoting the “inevitable transition” from “dirty” fossil fuels to “low-cost, clean, green, renewable, sustainable” wind and solar power. Net Zero Green New Deal proponents need to start pondering some immutable realities.

On the natural climate driver side, we disagree, which fuels debate. No one marches in lockstep toward an agenda-driven goal where the only disagreement is over how to doom-and-gloom each other. Recently, a movement to discredit the global temperature has arisen on the premise that it’s not truly a physical or thermodynamic process as a climate variable. I see where these people are coming from, and why, but I disagree that statistical measurement is meaningless.

The UN created the “Green Climate Fund” as a tool for redistribution of wealth. The fund is designed as a payoff to developing nations to keep them on board the UN climate agenda. Now the fund is running out of other people’s money. CFACT’s Melanie Collette reports at CFACT.org: “The Green Climate Fund, the Global Environment Facility, and the Adaptation Fund all sent people to explain how developing countries can tap them for cash. What they mostly did was ask for more.

A database of Green Climate Fund (GFD) “projects” reveals that almost none are actual projects. Most are just specialized junior funds. Each has a supposed emission reduction number, but these are just fantasy guesses since no actual projects are involved. Thus, the GCF emission reduction claims are fraudulent. The database is here.

Using “Right of First Refusal” to legally impose a climate monopoly. If liberal politicians maintain control of the governorship and expand their numbers in the Wisconsin state legislature this fall, green energy outfits will gain a monopoly. The big utilities backing wind and solar projects already have vast financial resources and considerable influence over members of both parties in the statehouse. So says Annette Olson, the CEO of the MacIver Institute, a free market think tank in Wisconsin.

As Americans grapple with the stark realities of soaring AI-driven energy demand, Texas — of all places — is seriously considering a scheme to transmit electricity across the state that is worthy of California at its most dysfunctional.

A year ago Donald Trump decided to reignite nuclear power research –– his goal in June 2025 was to develop three new advanced nuclear reactors and get them to reach criticality by July 4th this year for the 250th celebrations. In the end they got four across the line. One of them, created by an Australian Bobby Gallagher, was a latecomer to the race, but managed to build a new microreactor design, with some help from the US Energy Department,  in an awe-inspiring 150 days.

President Trump at an August 7 industry roundtable announced over $180 million in investments to bolster the nation’s universities that still have mining engineering and other mining-related programs. The President also announced over $2 billion in investments in mining and mining-related projects nationwide.

Watch: Morano on NTD TV on rise of Socialism/Marxism in USA ‘They look at the reality of capitalism, warts & all, and it always comes up short, & they present socialism as a utopia, & it sounds wonderful’ – ‘We haven’t seen this kind of a push by open communists in America probably since the 1930s.’ Share This Story, Choose Your Platform!