The Georgia Hour, episode 188: Gridlock Gambit: Georgia Power’s Gas Guzzlers and Battery Boondoggles Fuel Data Center Frenzy

This episode of the hard-hit­ting Geor­gia con­ser­v­a­tive pod­cast crack­les with out­rage over the state’s sky­rock­et­ing ener­gy demands, zero­ing in on Geor­gia Pow­er’s auda­cious push to super­charge the grid for an explo­sion of data centers—while law­mak­ers squirm and dodge the fall­out. BKP unleash­ing a ver­ba­tim ral­ly cry from the for­mer pres­i­dent: slam­ming the 2020 elec­tion “scan­dal” as dwarfed only by the NBA’s card cheats, but pal­ing next to Biden’s “Crooked Moron” reign. Trump demands DOJ “gus­to” on Ful­ton Coun­ty fraud, teas­es a post-Novem­ber 14 Geor­gia bomb­shell, and ral­lies Repub­li­cans for vot­er ID man­dates to thwart mail-in “dis­hon­esty” like Cal­i­for­ni­a’s bal­lot floods—lest midterms echo the “stolen” past.

Piv­ot­ing to the pow­er play at the heart of today’s firestorm, BKP evis­cer­ates Geor­gia Pow­er’s blue­print for a 10,000 MW grid over­haul, brand­ed as a “mas­sive” life­line for data cen­ters but rid­dled with gas-guz­zling plants and a mix of bat­tery stor­age units. He spot­lights the con­tro­ver­sy: envi­ron­men­tal watch­dogs and clean-ener­gy advo­cates blast­ing the util­i­ty for backpedal­ing on coal plant retire­ments and green­light­ing fos­sil fuel builds, all to feed tech giants’ insa­tiable hunger. The Pub­lic Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PSC)‘s July 2025 rub­ber-stamp on this “aston­ish­ing” fos­sil-heavy plan—projected to hog 90% of new ener­gy capac­i­ty for data centers—draws t ire as a bill­pay­er betray­al, with locals foot­ing the tab for cor­po­rate feasts amid delayed solar ramps and BESS (Bat­tery Ener­gy Stor­age Sys­tem) promis­es.

BKP recounts cor­ner­ing a law­mak­er on data centers—only to get a “blow me away” dis­missal that reeks of elite indif­fer­ence, leav­ing rur­al Geor­gians high and dry as mega-hubs sprout, spark­ing com­mu­ni­ty uproar over water strains, noise, and black­outs. Bat­tery plants get a side-eye too: BKP nods to the Sep­tem­ber 2025 ICE raid halt­ing con­struc­tion at a major EV bat­tery facil­i­ty, fram­ing it as a jolt expos­ing for­eign-backed “boon­dog­gles” like SK On’s Com­merce plant—promising jobs but deliv­er­ing fed­er­al probes and grid headaches. Will 2026 hope­fuls for Gov­er­nor, Lt. Gov., or Sec­re­tary of State fess up, or fil­i­buster like the “weasel”? BKP bets on dodges, urg­ing lis­ten­ers to demand answers on how these pow­er-hun­gry behe­moths threat­en afford­able ener­gy and local con­trol.