The AI boom is driving massive new energy demand and giant data centers, and this looks bad for ordinary people who get higher power bills, fewer jobs, and no real say in the matter.

• The Iran conflict closed the Strait of Hormuz and pulled billions of barrels of oil out of the global system, pushing energy prices up worldwide.
• At the same time, the same elites who pushed climate alarmism for years are now demanding huge new fossil-fuel power plants to feed AI data centers.
• A planned data center in Utah will cover 62 square miles and use more electricity than the entire state of Utah, while creating only about 2,000 permanent jobs.
• Lake Tahoe residents were just told their power company will cut them off at the end of 2027 because all the electricity has to go to a nearby data center instead.
• Kevin O'Leary, who is building the Utah project, frames the push as a race against China and dismisses concerns about water, power costs, and tax breaks as Chinese-backed misinformation.
• College graduates booed when a commencement speaker praised AI, suggesting young people sense AI threatens their jobs and future without offering them anything in return.

Outlook: Power costs and local conflicts over data centers will keep rising, and AI will start eliminating high-paying white-collar jobs with no clear plan for what replaces them.