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The Lincoln Project

The Lincoln Project

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Erin Brockovich: They're Coming for Your Water

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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”!

— @susansherwood2883

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.

All of this because America voted for more racism....

— @ArtClubSuperstar

Bullhead City better WTFU! A data center there is now approved while Lake Mead is damn near empty!!

— @annanimity3440

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.

— @candytoo3729

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!

— @samthompson2980

#ErinBrockovich #DataCenters #BigTech #AI #WaterCrisis #RickWilson #LincolnProject #Environment #Grassroots #Politics #Podcast

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 🤨👎

— @robynrains7252

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Absolutely evil. Now the super rich & powerful are taking from the poor the basic resource needed for survival: water. 😮

@deborahbarbour2241
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Thanks

@AnthonyPace-m1k
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I 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-f4p
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Vote out the corporate wh@res!

@DonnaClark-cd5fr
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We don't need ai . I say we 🚫 them

@Toogenuine4U
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The American Dream has always been that, a DREAM. Never existed. Ever, ever ever. Every other Western democracy is a better country.

@candytoo3729
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WHO is behind all this? NAME NAMES!

@thow5836
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We 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-dd6qd
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That is palantir plan to kill humanity

@Toogenuine4U
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My light night went up by $125

@Toogenuine4U
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Thqnk You for everything you do 🙏

@iancarter9418
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Well said Rick!

@kennethpayne1991
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My water pressure has depleted n often turns brown during the middle of the day

@Toogenuine4U
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Thank you. Bringing the whole story w Erin. Always enjoy your content Rick. Here's your flowers to u both. 😊💐

@rosalindwatson1403
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How 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-f4p
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China is an excuse. They want mass surveillance point blank period

@WashingtonBlues
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Thank you for being her in . I am so concerned for our water .

@Toogenuine4U
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I heard there is a data center being built under the Trump/Epstein Ballroom. Isthat true???

@CarolNelson-nu7jx
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It's time to invest in the manufacturing of guillotines!

@RogerFiggins
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If 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.

@jasonhatfield3084
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Very enlightening 👌Thank you both for bringing this into our focus unbelievable that this is being done to our beautiful communities!!

@colleenharbaugh7185
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We have republicans instead of regulations

@TheresaMynatt
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By the time these AI Data Centres are built, they are outdated.

@dalehargreaves966
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I 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.

@ianhilliard7534
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And everyone is getting rich along the way. We cannot afford billionairs anymore. We are broke, sick, hungry, and pissed off. 😡

@TheresaMynatt
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Great chat

@constancejoki4055
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Erin 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

@Swampbuggy61
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Muriatic Acid
Cordless drill
1" auger bit 12" length
Funnel
Rooftop access

@PapalTiger
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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.

@TheresaMynatt
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The Big Ugly Bill stops regulation of AI for ten years

@oceanrock733
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I 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.

@TheresaMynatt
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Is Rick Wilson married? These two male a great couple

@RanchDressing101
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Data centres will unite people and bring the tech bros to heel

@crow8045
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I 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.

@kevnwarriner8819
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What are these data centers going to do with the water they are contaminating????

@leannageyer943
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The 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.

@JustME-ft4di
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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!

@patriciapetersen2015
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Yes agreed. I consider myself maga but this maga isn’t maga. It’s MIGA and MIBGA. MAGA don’t vote for what is happening.

@WashingtonBlues
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We need a thousand more Erin Brockovich's to fight this!

@waterfall408
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Tech bros hubris is just soooooo insufferably nauseating!🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

@danieldecastro8275
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As the lying sociopath rails against communism boogieman, OPEN AI ASKS FOR GOVT BAILOUT 💸💸🐍🐍

@Perry-o8s9x
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All of our resources. Everywhere. At once 🥺

@waterfall408
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Majorly important topic. Thanks for the great discussion.

@jenniferhooks2454
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What 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