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Conservative voices on BlazeTV are sounding a loud and necessary alarm as we head into 2026, and Americans should listen. Glenn Beck, Steve Deace, Liz Wheeler, and Jason Buttrill laid out a bleak but plausible set of scenarios in which technological change, energy shortages, and political rot collide to make next year deeply disruptive. They aren’t peddling fantasy — they’re connecting dots that every patriot ought to understand before crisis hits.
Beck’s central warning is simple and terrifying: the AI buildout is sucking up unprecedented amounts of power and our grids were never built to supply it, which could mean higher prices, more unemployment from automation, and rolling blackouts for hardworking Americans. That’s not ideological fear-mongering — ERCOT and local reporting show huge jumps in data-center-related electricity requests that planners must reckon with right now. This is the real-world consequence of unbalanced tech growth and failed energy planning.
The numbers are sobering: ERCOT’s large-load interconnection requests have ballooned into the hundreds of gigawatts this year, with more than 70 percent tied to data centers — projects that can demand more power than entire cities. When you see regulators scrambling to draft new rules and utilities warning about “chaos” in the queue, you should hear an emergency bell ringing for national policy. No sane country ignores a problem of that scale and expects orderly results.
This crisis has a political face: Big Tech and a weak energy policy pushed by the current leadership have prioritized digital ambitions over the material needs of citizens. Glenn’s blunt conclusion — that this is shaping up to be the Achilles’ heel of the administration that let it happen — is exactly the kind of accountability Americans need. If the people in charge favor ideological experiments and corporate cronies over reliable power and jobs, they deserve the criticism.
Beyond the grid, the panel rightly flagged a larger cultural threat: AI systems are already becoming gatekeepers of information, shaping what millions of Americans can see and believe. That concentration of control — when combined with the monotony of corporate media and government-friendly algorithms — threatens free speech, honest debate, and the very idea of self-government. Conservatives should take no comfort in technological inevitability; we must push for transparency, competition, and safeguards that protect free conscience.
There are obvious, common-sense solutions that would have prevented much of this strain: fast-tracking safe nuclear capacity, streamlining permitting for transmission lines, incentivizing on-site generation and microgrids, and reining in the regulatory chokeholds that slow private investment. Other nations don’t get a pass when their elites gamble with citizens’ livelihoods; neither should ours. The facts on the ground from energy markets and independent reporting prove these are not abstract policy choices but immediate national-security priorities.
Americans who cherish freedom should treat these predictions not as doom porn but as a wake-up call. Prepare your families, push your representatives for sensible energy and technology policy, and reward leaders who put the country first instead of ideology or foreign capital. If 2026 is poised to reshape the world, then let it reshape it into one where liberty, responsibility, and American industry come roaring back.
