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Speaker 0 contends that concerns over rising power bills due to AI data centers are about to worsen as BlackRock and Blackstone buy up local power utilities. The piece, attributed to The New American, claims globalist equity firms are acquiring local energy companies nationwide to support AI infrastructure, provoking pushback from ratepayers and regulators. The Associated Press is cited as reporting that private equity giants are purchasing utilities to power AI-driven data centers, raising ratepayer and regulator concerns, with Oregon Citizens Utility Board noting increased public discussion at Public Utility Commissions.
Speaker 0 notes a widespread anxiety about electricity costs tied to aging and expanding power infrastructure, including lines, poles, transformers, and generators, as utilities harden for extreme weather. The narrative asserts that apart from general cost increases, the core issue is the AI race, and that large international asset firms are eager to back a technology with potential for surveillance, manipulation, and control, while also seeking strong returns on investment. It claims these firms have historically used monetary power to push corporate support for climate alarmism and transgender activism, and that BlackRock and Blackstone together controlled more than $13 trillion in assets (BlackRock about $12 trillion; Blackstone about $1.2 trillion). It states only the U.S. and China have GDPs larger than $13 trillion.
Concrete buyouts and investments are listed: January 2024, Blackstone bought a 20% stake in Northern Indiana Public Service Company for $2.1 billion, with the utility planning to boost green energy production afterward. In January 2025, Blackstone outright bought Potomac Energy Center, a natural gas power plant in Loudoun County, Virginia, for $1 billion, described as Blackstone’s most recent investment in power infrastructure for AI. In March 2025, Wisconsin’s Public Service Commission approved the buyout of Superior Water, Light, and Power by Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and BlackRock subsidiary Global Infrastructure Partners, with BlackRock taking a 60% majority stake. A separate deal: Blackstone bought Hilltop Energy Center, a natural gas power plant in Pennsylvania, for $1 billion, with executives Bilal Khan and Mark Zhu describing the acquisition as AI-focused. Blackstone is also seeking regulatory permission to buy Albuquerque-based Public Service Company of New Mexico and Texas New Mexico PowerCo, while BlackRock and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board’s attempted purchase of Minnesota Power faces regulatory turbulence; a Minnesota sale could determine how such firms expand in a sector linking households, data centers, and power sources.
Speaker 0 adds that the rise of AI is providing these firms with an “excuse” to control infrastructure, and mentions Yuval Noah Harari and the WEF. It cites the WEF’s “you will own nothing” rhetoric and notes Harari’s hypothetical about future irrelevance, Neuralink, and a broader agenda including surveillance, ownership consolidation, and potential reductions in access to private property. It asserts Larry Fink of BlackRock is at the WEF and CFR, and that BlackRock’s broader investments include real estate, farmland, timberland, and single-family rental homes, as part of a “build to rent” scheme. The piece warns that one corporation controlling vast natural resources and power utilities amid rising prices would be disastrous, urging citizens to resist BlackRock’s influence. It contrasts China’s influence with BlackRock’s power, condemning ESG models and the World Economic Forum’s agenda toward a “great reset,” digital currency, digital ID, and reduced access to resources.
Speaker 1 interjects with a separate 1999 statement about how genetic engineering will change us and implies a need to start conversations now, arguing that one direction relinquishes power to others while the other empowers individuals to fix themselves.
Speaker 0 reiterates that the conversation centers on power, AI, and control, warning against allowing a single corporation to own essential resources. The closing note references the January 1999 statement on genetic engineering, while Speaker 1 emphasizes taking personal power to fix oneself, framing the discussion as a shift in responsibility.