Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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There's a scourge of NDAs surrounding data center development — tech billionaires are getting local politicians to keep their projects a secret.

People around the country are increasingly outraged to find that their politicians have signed on to agreements proposed by the oligarchs at Meta, xAI, Anthropic and elsewhere that allow tech giants to hold them to secrecy.

We went down to Louisiana and talked to folks who say this is a crisis of corruption.

Producer: @wadrewhawkins
Editor: @kungaaaaaaaa
Supervising Producer: Court Fuller