"Dagen McDowell, a co-host of the "The Big Money Show" on Fox Business, recently flaunted her zeal for AI - and her distaste for holiday cheer - by declaring that a beloved local Christmas tree farm should be sacrificed to make way for data center infrastructure. McDowell was defending a proposed plan for a 67-mile long transmission line running through Maryland that would bring more power to the booming AI data centers in northern Virginia."
""I think that the United States of America would gladly just saw off Maryland and kick it into the Atlantic Ocean if you don't like it," McDowell said. "If there is a need for electricity generation and a conduit like power lines to bring electricity to a densely populated area of business and growth like northern Virginia, then it's not about AI, it's actually about economic growth for the United States.""
A proposed 67-mile transmission line would bring power to AI data centers in northern Virginia. The $424 million Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project would run through farmland and private property, including a local Christmas tree farm facing displacement. Farmers and property owners oppose the project, saying Maryland would act as an 'extension cord' that provides little local benefit while creating a major eyesore. Fox Business co-host Dagen McDowell defended the project, dismissing objections as 'hogwash' and arguing the infrastructure supports economic growth. McDowell also argued the tree farm does not produce food and suggested solar development would similarly preclude tree cultivation.
Read at Futurism
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]