Erin Brockovich: They're Coming for Your Water
Video Overview & Insights
Somewhere near you, Big Tech is quietly bolting together a windowless box the size of a stadium — and it's thirsty as hell. The AI gold rush has unleashed a wave of massive data centers that swallow staggering amounts of water and electricity, spike local utility bills, and buckle small-town grids that were never built to feed a machine that never sleeps. The trillion-dollar companies get the profits and the press releases. The town next door gets the drained reservoir, the power crunch, and the bill. If that racket sounds familiar, it should.
Watch the old movie “Wallee”!
This week, Rick Wilson sits down with the one and only Erin Brockovich — the legendary crusader who's spent her whole life dragging corporate giants into the light and making them pay — to break down the fight communities are waking up to across the country. They get into who's really footing the cost of the AI boom, why local families keep getting steamrolled by companies with unlimited lawyers, how ordinary people are actually beating these projects when they organize early and loud, and exactly what to do if a data center shows up on your doorstep. It's a David-and-Goliath story with a very 2026 twist — and Erin's entire career is proof that Goliath bleeds.
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All of this because America voted for more racism....
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Bullhead City better WTFU! A data center there is now approved while Lake Mead is damn near empty!!
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The world is done with the US. The world may be able to help you if it shuts down US tech platforms. That scares the shat out of them. Digital borders are coming. The world is building them against the US. You live in the new trump corporation. Just saying.
Erin Brockovich is a legendary environmental activist and consumer advocate. Find her work at Brockovichdatacenter.com, thebrockovichreport.com, and follow her at @ErinBrockovich.
Rick Wilson is on X @TheRickWilson and on Substack at therickwilson.substack.com. More from LP at www.lincolnproject.us and on X @ProjectLincoln.
We are AI, resistance is futile, your technological distinctiveness will be added to our own.Your utility usage will be made more costly to service us! Looks like you're FUCKED!
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How do We Stop This??
Bezos supposedly said something like, People are taking the water his Data Centers Need!
WTF ???
Between this and the White Christian Nationalist movement taking over small towns and city councils, there’s no End to the Threats We are currently experiencing 🤨👎
More User Perspectives
Absolutely evil. Now the super rich & powerful are taking from the poor the basic resource needed for survival: water. 😮
@deborahbarbour2241Thanks
@AnthonyPace-m1kI am a Canadian, and I am wishing you all the best of luck in the good fight to protect a decent quality of life for yourselves, your families and your friends and neighbors.
@MyriamKaye-f4pVote out the corporate wh@res!
@DonnaClark-cd5frWe don't need ai . I say we 🚫 them
@Toogenuine4UThe American Dream has always been that, a DREAM. Never existed. Ever, ever ever. Every other Western democracy is a better country.
@candytoo3729WHO is behind all this? NAME NAMES!
@thow5836We need a mobile display the simulates a data center for noise heat and power consumption that can go state to state at festivals to give people a visceral experience of what living next to data center would be like.
@mostlysunny-dd6qdThat is palantir plan to kill humanity
@Toogenuine4UMy light night went up by $125
@Toogenuine4UThqnk You for everything you do 🙏
@iancarter9418Well said Rick!
@kennethpayne1991My water pressure has depleted n often turns brown during the middle of the day
@Toogenuine4UThank you. Bringing the whole story w Erin. Always enjoy your content Rick. Here's your flowers to u both. 😊💐
@rosalindwatson1403How like the tech billionaires and tech trillionaire to get everyone else to subsidize their profits with water, land, air, and electricity. It's not enough that they are getting tax cuts from Trump and its not enough that Trump is eliminating any inconvenient regulations or lawsuits, they always want MORE! To make matters worse, without the Tech Bros financial bribes America wouldn't be careening towards fascism and an even more inequitable distribution of wealth!
@MyriamKaye-f4pChina is an excuse. They want mass surveillance point blank period
@WashingtonBluesThank you for being her in . I am so concerned for our water .
@Toogenuine4UI heard there is a data center being built under the Trump/Epstein Ballroom. Isthat true???
@CarolNelson-nu7jxIt's time to invest in the manufacturing of guillotines!
@RogerFigginsIf you care that data center noise affects people's health, be also aware that we seem to be addressing Housing shortages by building what's supposed to be people's "homes" right next to busy thoroughfares. Real estate developers don't give a crap how dehumanizing it is to have to live in these places; no more than the oligarchs who will end up controlling A.I. because they're willing to consume all available resources with neither money nor society being a constraint.
@jasonhatfield3084Very enlightening 👌Thank you both for bringing this into our focus unbelievable that this is being done to our beautiful communities!!
@colleenharbaugh7185We have republicans instead of regulations
@TheresaMynattBy the time these AI Data Centres are built, they are outdated.
@dalehargreaves966I read a report a few months back which pointed out that AI is making massive losses. To break even, AI needs to cost at least 16 times more than it currently does. What the industry is doing is getting companies to replace people with AI, so that when the prices go up, the companies will have no choice but to pay the higher prices. It is a bit like drug dealers giving away drugs to get people hooked.
@ianhilliard7534And everyone is getting rich along the way. We cannot afford billionairs anymore. We are broke, sick, hungry, and pissed off. 😡
@TheresaMynattGreat chat
@constancejoki4055Erin Is right, this same type of thing has happened before, so the people need to fight it before it is too late. Last century General Motors, Goodyear tires and a number of other companies were involved in a conspiracy to take away the electric street cars and tracks and replace them with internal combustion engine General Motors busses. By the time an antitrust suit was launched against General Motors, and they were found guilty and forced to pay $5000.00 (which even back then was a small fine for such a large crime), most of the streetcars and tracks were gone. This explains more about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy
@Swampbuggy61Muriatic Acid
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Republicans are like people who love to fuck, but do not want the responsibility of the results. The rest of us can suffer their consequences. I’m sick of them and do not offer a bridge back for them.
@TheresaMynattThe Big Ugly Bill stops regulation of AI for ten years
@oceanrock733I gave up on timers. My power goes out almost daily. Sometimes it flicker, all the way to hours. I don’t have exterior lights anymore. It’s too hard to keep them set correctly. It’s maddening on top of bill that have doubled. Our mayor here in Memphis lobbied for years to kill us with X AI. He’s fired in “28”. We are losing a $$$$$ billion a month. We brought in 3.5 billion in 2025. We are fucked.
@TheresaMynattIs Rick Wilson married? These two male a great couple
@RanchDressing101Data centres will unite people and bring the tech bros to heel
@crow8045I don't know if anyone has heard of Infrasound, it messes with people's brains, the sound from these AI Data Centers is like that, it
makes them sick, paranoid and detached from reality, it effects animals the same way, we could see bear attacks for no reason and even Gator attacks, that could be caused by the sound from AI Data Centers, because their minds are being messed with making them sick.
What are these data centers going to do with the water they are contaminating????
@leannageyer943The rush is they know the whole thing is a bubble, they are massively over leveraged and know only one or two companies will survive.
Also, they don’t care if you don’t have food or water or if you all die.
In fact they want to cull you.
Read Douglas Rushkoff’s book ‘Survival of the Richest’ he spoke to these ppl at conferences. They have a much bigger plan.
Data centers are noisy because the generators are mostly run buy diesel follow the threads long game is always fossil fuels / BTW 50 years I supplied Detroit Diesel / Daimler - Cat and Cummins cores. so I know the low down behind your blinders!
@patriciapetersen2015Yes agreed. I consider myself maga but this maga isn’t maga. It’s MIGA and MIBGA. MAGA don’t vote for what is happening.
@WashingtonBluesWe need a thousand more Erin Brockovich's to fight this!
@waterfall408Tech bros hubris is just soooooo insufferably nauseating!🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢
@danieldecastro8275As the lying sociopath rails against communism boogieman, OPEN AI ASKS FOR GOVT BAILOUT 💸💸🐍🐍
@Perry-o8s9xAll of our resources. Everywhere. At once 🥺
@waterfall408Majorly important topic. Thanks for the great discussion.
@jenniferhooks2454What happens in 5 yesrs when these monstrosities are obsolete and the eprk can be done by a drsk top. Remember main frame computers? Where are they now. Technology advancements will render these obsolete, then what? The plunder is done.
@2009kygal