Washington Is Taking Farms to Power AI Data Centers

In this episode, Anton sits down to unpack one of the strangest land fights happening in Washington State right now: a $260 million power line slicing through 32 miles of Quincy farmland to feed the AI data center boom. It starts with a number that's hard to shake — $2,415. That's what one family in Quincy was offered for a permanent easement across a third of an acre in their front lawn, to make room for a 230,000-volt transmission tower. Multiply that story across 112 parcels, 34 homes, and...