The wave of anti-data-center sentiment in the US mirrors the historical pattern of anti-GMO sentiment, which tracked closely with Russia Today's US media presence before it was banned, suggesting a foreign influence campaign is shaping American public opinion against data centers.

70:49Middle East because it's a very attractive place to build these things >> and by the way you saw the you even if you just if you think about fiber and the milliseconds as you're talking about yes you can get to the four billion people but I don't know if you saw the the giant Starlink versions now they make like a really big version I think you got like one of the

71:08enterprise versions but there's like an even bigger enterprise version and they can bundle them together and you're starting to get to like 10 gig 20 gig setups so that means you could start putting these things almost anywhere >> which gets also like adds another >> can we see your clip. The thing that you were mentioning before, >> this is not to your point as prevalent in the Middle East where you have

71:31monarchies and governments that aren't ruled by democracy, but in democracies, we see this anti-data center movement taking hold. This chart is something that for me always kind of played a role in my understanding of where the incredible anti-GMO sentiment came about in the United States, >> which is great. Russia Today, this Russian media outlet launched in the US in 2010. They were kicked out of the US

71:59by Biden in 2022. And you can see that prior to Russia today existing in the US, there was no anti-GMO sentiment. GMOs were around since 1996. That's when they first had their big commercial launch in the US and were pretty prevalent for, you know, 14 plus years before everyone started to think GMOs are bad. We got to get rid of GMOs. And you could ask people a hundred

72:21different ways very pointedly and specifically about the facts on the matter and the science of GMOs and all this sort of stuff, but everyone always had a reason why they didn't want them, similar to what we're hearing now with AI and data centers. And it turns out that if you track back all of the media that had all this anti-GMO sentiment that ultimately got picked up by the mom

72:41bloggers that ultimately got put into social media feeds that ultimately everyone just accepted as truth. A lot of it originated in this Russian media push that happened around this era. And you can actually see this on the Google trend data that shows GMO and it's kind of write up. And then as Russia Today started to get cut by different media outlets and people stopped retweeting them and stopped reflecting them and

73:02stopped writing articles that followed Russia Today the anti-GMO sentiment declined in the US and I think you can see this going back decades. You know there's this effort that the KGB kind of designed during the cold war called directed measures which was really meant to try and create an influence campaign through affecting media. So putting this kind of propaganda out through foreign media, particularly targeted western democracies. And you know, you could