Tech Billionaires’ Shocking Plan For West Virginia
Mingo County, West Virginia, was once thriving, but the coal industry’s decline left it one of the poorest counties in the US. Now, multiple data centers could be built in the region.Are data centers a new extractive industry, or will they provide a much-needed economic lifeline?
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@doggydas23
April 3, 2026 at 11:12 am
Demonaties. Age of kali yuga, the age of darkness- Godlessness. Sheep might want to get it together
@Gassuppp
April 3, 2026 at 11:12 am
Wv is so beautiful what a damn shame
@lateinphx
April 3, 2026 at 11:12 am
This will not benefit WV at the level they say it will. The companies building the plants will be from out of state and majority of the workers will be from other states, not to mention environmental impact.
@millionangelkindspiracy6545
April 3, 2026 at 11:12 am
Company behind it is TransGas based in New York…
Before Trans, 100s of millions, billions of dollars worth of coal were extracted from those communities and the people who live there were left with less than nothing. STOP doing this
@robertmosman8274
April 3, 2026 at 11:12 am
So technically is a bad thing after all
@b0borden437
April 3, 2026 at 11:12 am
Who did you vote into office that gave tax breaks to the data center to choose Bingo county? Trump doesn't care about the people of WV.
@donharris132
April 3, 2026 at 11:12 am
The sales pitch for these is even bull shit. The thought these will be anything but resource sucks to communities is delusional.
@lyndaferguson816
April 3, 2026 at 11:12 am
They drain your lakes, and your utility bills will soar. One is coming about thirty miles from my home in East Texas.
@techshredder1313
April 3, 2026 at 11:12 am
this is so sad another beautiful area destroyed by greed
@Zanderman2000
April 3, 2026 at 11:12 am
Thank you. This video also rises a very important message for all of humanity. There is a huge spiritual unbalance between the owning class and the common citizens. I can guarantee you all that if the unbalance keeps going this rate the nature will flip the tables and make the change pretty soon, and it will not be pretty to any of us. Sun is already giving strong burts of storms. I can guarantee you this universe is a living being and it can make these plans of the unbalanced elite class obsolite in a one single day.
@Adrian-uo6vh
April 3, 2026 at 11:12 am
anyone else think this guy sounds exactly like the My Name is Earl guy?
@Eternallyfree666
April 3, 2026 at 11:12 am
Wake up,people of West Virginia, don’t let them, they are evil! They are going to destroy your beautiful state! Don’t let them, wake up!
@Gym-Kroe
April 3, 2026 at 11:12 am
data center will generate …. 1 security job. one IT job. and 1 maintenance position.
@Gym-Kroe
April 3, 2026 at 11:12 am
says data centers will drive jobs LOL. by 2030. anything near a 6 block radius of a data center will look like a graveyard. nothing there. all residents moved out.
@Gym-Kroe
April 3, 2026 at 11:12 am
if billionaire think he can "create a city in the sky". why hasn't he? where does he expect to go when he kills all life on earth? he himself will die alone
@kellydavis3108
April 3, 2026 at 11:12 am
They are building digital prisons. Anyone believing that AI will usher in a new era of UBI and luxury for all is deluded. Expect serfdom at best. We'll be rounded up and pushed into 15 minute cities "for the environment" where we will be left to wallow with terrible infrastructure, rampant crime, neglect, lack of representation, while green lands are 'preserved for MOTHER NATURE" – aka the elite. 85% population reduction is their goal, as they simply won't need us anymore. The reason this can't seemed to be stopped is this is part of the system of the Beast in end times prophecy. Anyone who does not accept the mark will be unable to buy or sell.
@illustratusPhilosophus
April 3, 2026 at 11:12 am
Surprise surprise the Boomer thinks it's gonna help. We need to stop these geriatric idiots.
@oneblackgeye
April 3, 2026 at 11:12 am
Conversations, exposes and condemnation’s for the most part do not lead to a more perfect union – especially when the tech billionaires and capitalist, goon squad continue to do what it is they want to do while you’re having your little meetings. No! Put off the fire first hand craft pyromaniacs, then have all the conversations you want. But do not under any circumstances sit around, having powwows all these global gangsters carbo and sell off what’s left of the lush parts of the United States to design us in Israel, and the socialists in China. No! From West Virginia to California Americans need to stand up load up and get fired up because the country you stole from the native Americans and Africans, is currently being stolen from you.
@markobrien690
April 3, 2026 at 11:12 am
I'm shocked…shocked I tell you, where is the solar and wind power? Where is the hydroelectric?
@Metal_Matrix
April 3, 2026 at 11:12 am
To put it short, yall got fucked
@nedflanders190
April 3, 2026 at 11:12 am
Everyone that saw this video just supported a data center, Same with all these comments we post. Duh.
@aeronwolfe7072
April 3, 2026 at 11:12 am
THIS SHIT ISN'T GOING TO BENEFIT ANYONE BUT TECH BROS. and honestly, they'll probably eventually, sit there and waste away.
@hildariley-willis
April 3, 2026 at 11:12 am
Why don't you move, I would not live there😮
@catherinedonnelly1025
April 3, 2026 at 11:12 am
So these billionaires wanna come into your area destroy your area make data centers with those really are is centers to spy on all Americans
So you’re paying for that as well as paying for all the waste that they’re gonna leave behind and you’re not gonna have any electricity at all or water cause they’re gonna take it all for their data centers I think I’m gonna call them spy centers from now on cause that’s what they are
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