China Is Building Smarter AI While America Builds Empty Data Centers | 5/21/26

America is being sold a massive lie and false choice about AI and data centers. I sit down with computer scientist and AI expert Jim Calhoun to expose why the push for hyperscale AI data centers may have little to do with innovation — and everything to do with centralized control, land-grabs, surveillance infrastructure, and corporate power. While politicians and Big Tech claim America must build massive AI data centers to compete with China, Calhoun explains why China and most other countries are actually moving toward localized edge computing, sovereign AI, distributed architectures, and efficient open-source systems instead of centralized cloud dependency. Calhoun explains how open-weight models and sovereign AI can accomplish more while also helping protect your privacy, keep your data local, and prevent corporate and government overreach. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices