The Georgia Hour, episode 200: Georgia’s Job Mirage: Foreign Trainers, Data Center Droughts, and the Real Questions

In this fiery episode of The Geor­gia Hour on VoiceofRuralAmerica.com, host BKP dives deep into Geor­gia’s polit­i­cal under­bel­ly, urg­ing lis­ten­ers to demand trans­paren­cy from 2026 can­di­dates amid eco­nom­ic promis­es that feel more like smoke and mir­rors. Kick­ing off with praise for a recent inter­view with patri­ot Joe Rossi (avail­able on VORA Rum­ble chan­nel), BKP shares insights from attend­ing local GOP events, where he con­fronts can­di­dates with tough, non-stump-speech questions—emphasizing that “Amer­i­ca First” rhetoric isn’t enough with­out specifics.

A major focus is Geor­gia’s vaunt­ed eco­nom­ic “wins” like the Hyundai, LG, and SK bat­tery plants in Bryan Coun­ty, where for­eign (espe­cial­ly Kore­an) work­ers on H‑1B visas were sup­pos­ed­ly train­ing Amer­i­cans for high-tech jobs. BKP blasts the lack of evi­dence: despite Gov­er­nor Bri­an Kemp and First Lady Mar­ty Kemp tout­ing thou­sands of jobs from tax incen­tives, recent ICE raids detained hun­dreds of these work­ers, who now face law­suits against the agency. He calls for manda­to­ry reports from every incom­ing company—detailing visa hold­ers for train­ing, actu­al Amer­i­can hires, enroll­ment in pro­grams (e.g., six-month cours­es yield­ing thou­sands of skilled work­ers), and automation/AI impacts reduc­ing head­counts from 200 to just 35 per plant. With­out this, he argues, it’s all dis­plac­ing locals, and can­di­dates like those vying for gov­er­nor or lieu­tenant gov­er­nor must com­mit to audit­ing these deals or risk being exposed as enablers of cor­po­rate wel­fare.

Shift­ing to the explod­ing data cen­ter boom, BKP high­lights envi­ron­men­tal and fis­cal red flags. Draw­ing from a WSB-TV report, he expos­es how hyper­scale facilities—like Google’s in Dou­glas Coun­ty or the mas­sive pro­posed site in Chero­kee Coun­ty (larg­er than Harts­field-Jack­son’s terminals)—gulp 1–6 mil­lion gal­lons of water dai­ly for cool­ing, equiv­a­lent to fill­ing an Olympic pool. Yet, agree­ments are shroud­ed in NDAs and redac­tions, hid­ing water pri­or­i­ties (often favor­ing cor­po­ra­tions over drought-prone Chat­ta­hoochee Riv­er users), infra­struc­ture costs, and tax breaks. Indus­try reps claim effi­cien­cy and recir­cu­la­tion, but locals fear sky­rock­et­ing bills; BKP warns town halls are often too late, as law­mak­ers and coun­cils are pre-sold on rev­enue. He demands can­di­dates explain: Why pri­or­i­tize “robots in every house” over human jobs? How will they enforce trans­paren­cy on water/electricity rights and claw back exemp­tions for Google, Meta, and oth­ers?

Elec­tion integri­ty tops BKP’s “top of the list” for any office­hold­er, tran­scend­ing par­ty lines. He recaps Ful­ton Coun­ty’s stonewalling: a DOJ Civ­il Rights Divi­sion let­ter demand­ing 2020 records with­in 15 days (response due soon), unclear bal­lot answers from elec­tion offi­cials, and Judge Scott McAfee’s Fri­day dead­line to reas­sign the Trump RICO case. BKP push­es for ditch­ing Domin­ion machines—broken on launch—and sep­a­rat­ing the Sec­re­tary of State’s office from elec­tions, insist­ing can­di­dates spec­i­fy decer­ti­fi­ca­tion plans, emer­gency paper bal­lots, and log audits.

The episode skew­ers 2026 hope­fuls for “stuck in their lane” per­for­mances. Blake Tillery (Lt. Gov. can­di­date) gets a polite but point­ed cri­tique for a Gilmer Coun­ty speech tout­ing zero state income tax via slash­ing “cor­po­rate wel­fare” (wav­ing a thick exemp­tion list), while dodg­ing ques­tions on paper bal­lots, new vot­ing sys­tems, or data cen­ters. BKP con­trasts this with his ide­al response: Day-one decer­ti­fi­ca­tion, emer­gency pro­vi­sions, and DOJ aware­ness. Broad­er jabs hit Kem­p’s machine turn­ing pol­i­tics into a “disaster”—backing Derek Doo­ley for U.S. Sen­ate (despite Doo­ley’s 20-year vot­ing drought and fam­i­ly ties to the scan­dal-plagued First Lib­er­ty Build­ing & Loan fraud via broth­er Daniel’s loans), while his Hard Work in Geor­gia PAC attacks incum­bents like Bud­dy Carter and Mike Collins over shut­down blame. BKP expos­es Kem­p’s strat­e­gy: Fun­nel funds to keep rivals from stray­ing, pri­or­i­tiz­ing Doo­ley over par­ty uni­ty, and risk­ing mul­ti­mil­lion-dol­lar Dem influx if Doo­ley’s bag­gage erupts.

Tune in tomor­row at 8 AM for more unfil­tered Geor­gia truth—because “rev­enue” should­n’t sell out your water, jobs, or vote.