On The Jim Acosta Show, Scott Colom says an energy company has a secret deal with Mississippi for Amazon data centers that the law keeps hidden, with $38 million passed on to utility customers. He says the company gave up to $20,000 to Hyde-Smith's campaign while she sits on the committee with jurisdiction over AI and data centers and does nothing to regulate them.
The receipt
- Who
- Scott Colom
- Where
- interview - The Jim Acosta Show
- Original footage
- Jim Acosta · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 58 seconds, unedited within the cut
Read the transcript
It's almost like we've been conditioned to not care about Mississippi as a national party, but it's really to our own detriment. You have a lot of African -Americans, 38 % of population African -American. They vote 90 to 95 % Democrat. A lot of white rule Democrats, a lot of white young Democrats. And when you don't compete in those states, what you're basically kind of signaling to them is that you don't care that Cindy Hawes Memphis cutting their health insurance. You don't care that Cindy Hawes Memphis got gas and groceries through the roof. You don't care that she's allowing corruption with data centers and AI companies. I mean she's making you know energy for example Energy's got a secret deal with the state of Mississippi. We're in there doing these Amazon data centers, right? And we don't they got in the law you can't see the deals Why did I need a secret deal and but we do know 38 million It's gonna be passed on to utility customers and then you look at our campaign fundraising you see Energy is giving up to $20 ,000 dollars. She sits on the committee with jurisdiction over AI and data centers and she's doing nothing to regulate them.
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