Unemployed trust fund socialist Clayton Tucker has been making the rounds to the clueless ‘journalists’ lately talking about bringing down the hammer of God on those evil data centers by wasting tax dollars to ‘study’ the issue:
He demands studies on light pollution, soil pollution, water usage, power usage, and every other facet of life that falls completely and totally outside his meager ‘authority’ as an Ag Commissioner. These ridiculous ‘studies’ will all be ignored and laughed at and will be a total waste of tax dollars.
Here is why:
I doubt Comrade Clayton has thought this through, so I’ll do it for him:
#1 – There are ALREADY hundreds of data centers in Texas. There have been for decades. So this is like saying you need to study airports or power plants. We already know how they work and interact with their surroundings because we have been building and using them for decades. This is not a new thing.
#2 – Clayton Tucker has spent the last seven months driving all over Texas andstating with authority (and on the record!) as a factthat data centers are responsible for all of the following horrors (every receipt can be found on this blog using search function):
Dove population will be wiped out
Heart murmurs in children
Stillbirths in cows and goats (and maybe humans!)
Early-onset dementia
Wildlife destruction
Chickens laying 50% less eggs
Cattle losing 30% of their body weight
“Heavy metal toxins” in wells
Ear aches in children
Cattle breeding disruption due to light pollution
Doubling of electricity rates
“Jacking up” of water bills
“Destroying” water so that is just disappears forever
Making noises that can be heard five miles away
Creating massive heat domes that can be felt five miles away
So either Comrade Clayton just outed himself as a massive liar (true) by admitting no studies currently exist to prove all of the above bullshit (which he has stated as fact for seven months) OR there is no need to waste tax dollars doing his own brand-new studies because the studies showing all of the above ill effects must already exist! Otherwise, where did he get all this bullshit about “livestock losing 30% of their weight” from? Just show us THAT study, you momo.
Whoops, Comrade. Big whoops. By saying we need to study all this shit to find out, you just admitted that for the last seven months, everything you said about data centers on the campaign trail and used as fundraising bait is a complete and utter lie.
#3 – You WILL and SHOULD be crucified legally for singling out an industry when others are FAR bigger culprits of the fake sins you accuse data centers of.
For an easy example: golf courses use a LOT more water than data centers. They also technically use “toxins” (pesticides, fertilizer) that run off into the streams and stuff. There are currently 13 new golf courses under construction in Texas. If you go after a couple data centers and try to tie them up with bullshit red tape but DON’T go after any golf courses who use WAY more water AND are more likely to emit ‘toxins’ then the data center lawyers are going to rip you a new asshole for being arbitrary and capricious in your application of your fake powers. Even I know that, and I’m no lawyer.
Are you going to go after the big airports for light pollution and noise pollution, too? Are you going after the fracking industry for water pollution or toxins? How about any heavy industry for their water usage? You are going to find out very quickly you have ZERO power over any of these industries and these studies are useless and have no teeth whatsoever.
#4 – Who will be conducting these “truly independent scientific studies”? Some ‘scientist’ from a radical hippie group like The Sierra Club or your buddies over at The Sunrise Movement? Or maybe some blue-haired, nose-ringed ‘doctor’ of the environment from Pig Knuckle Juco who walks around with a “Save The Polar Bears” t-shirt on?
Yeah, that’ll go over like a lead balloon.
Wow. Comrade Clayton is off to a very rough start in his first 10 days after winning the lotto. So far he has:
Admitted he can’t do anything about data centers
Admitted he can’t bust any monopolies
Admitted he needs to beg Congress and Texas lege to act on anything
Made a fool of himself talking about “Hemp diesel” that will NEVER happen
Admitted everything he accused data centers of this year was 100% a lie.
Is putting his eggs in this “impact study” basket that will clearly go nowhere.
Gee. Looks like you better calm down, stfu with the insane commie shit and just go do the BORING and CLEARLY DEFINED duties of Ag Commissioner like checking supermarket scales and stuff.
Douchebag.