O'Leary uncovers 'NEFARIOUS' funding behind data center opposition #shorts
The short version: Kevin O'Leary claims data center opposition is 'nefarious' funded misinformation, but he never names who's funding it or addresses the real strain on local power bills, water, and land.
Our Take
Kevin O'Leary went on Fox Business's 'The Bottom Line' and dismissed data center pushback as 'nefarious' funded misinformation — a hand-wave that conveniently skips past the actual paper trail. We watch these fights county by county, and what we mostly see isn't shadowy dark money stirring up trouble. It's homeowners looking at rate hikes, water utilities scrambling to explain new industrial draws, and county boards realizing the tax abatements they signed don't cover the substation upgrades now landing on ratepayers.
Calling local resistance 'nefarious' is a neat trick: it reframes legitimate questions about who pays for the transmission lines, who gets the water rights, and who eats the noise and land-use costs as some kind of coordinated smear campaign. Maybe some opposition groups do have funders with an agenda — that happens on every side of every infrastructure fight in America. But that doesn't erase the basic math showing up in utility filings from Virginia to Arizona, where residential customers are increasingly subsidizing hyperscale buildouts.
If you want to see the actual deals — the incentive packages, the power purchase agreements, the water allocations — skip the cable-news soundbites and check our facility map. And if your county is currently negotiating one of these projects, our take-action page has what you need to show up and ask the questions O'Leary isn't asking.
This is GridWatch the USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Fox Business, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.