Ed Zitron
Writes Where's Your Ed At, a newsletter on the AI industry's finances, and hosts the Better Offline podcast covering the same territory in audio.
“The AI industry accidentally created the single best bipartisan talking point ever by force-feeding rural communities giant expensive monoliths explicitly built to take their jobs, and now faces outright opposition in effectively every state other than the Dakotas, with little or no response other than 'having data centers makes America stronger.'”
Better Offline · Tech Strategy & Big Tech · November 2026
Context
In a post-midterms monologue, Zitron describes the local backlash against data centers after ballot measures restricting them passed across the country. He argues the industry has no real counter-argument.
Transcript
Cool Zone Media. Hello, and welcome to this week's Better Offline monologue. I'm your host, Ed Zitron. And
…taking on great financial expense, literally making themselves a target because they want to be who they are in the most, and I must repeat, harmless way possible. And if you take issue with me being so aggressive, to quote David Lynch, fix your hearts or die. We must protect trans people. This
show and its listeners protect trans people. And if you do not, I do not want you as a listener and quite honestly, I want you to walk into fucking traffic. And any anger I feel is nothing compared to what trans people have dealt with over their entire lives, over the last few years, especially. I just don't have any patience or calm anymore. I'm in a great fucking mood, but my mood, my good mood, does not change the fact that trans people are still mistreated, that there were still anti-trans bills on the docket that went through. And that is a goddamn shame. And we must push the people that are obsessed with checking children's genitals, that are obsessed with chasing trans people out of society. We must chase them out. Those people are the ones we don't want. Not the harmless trans people, not the people, the very small shred of society that just wants to be themselves. Why do they not get to be themselves? What's the problem with that? The problem is you're fucking strange. Our world does not have to be white. It does not have to be straight. It does not have to be run by growth-obsessed, pedophile-protecting scumbags. We can…
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