Got to play Guarded by Monkeys for producer John Morand (and his girlfriend). Nice to see you tonight, John.

“Teacher, why are there so many data centers in Georgia?” “Well kids, that’s a story about a man named Data Center JFK…”

Megan Slankard is our “utility” player on this tour. Couldn’t do these golden age songs without her. Backing vocals, percussion, keyboards, and managing the original David Campbell string section recordings that have to play in time with the bands live tempo (not a backing track)

RUT ROH: Opposition to DC BLOX Nashville Zoo data center exceeds 400,000 petition signers. This is no longer a local zoning dispute. It is a national symbol of the data-center backlash movement. #DataCenters #NashvilleZoo wsmv.com/news/investigate/da…

Petition against proposed data center next to Nashville Zoo gets more than 400,000 signatures wsmv.com/2026/06/14/petition…

Imagine spending tens of thousands of dollars trying to save your water well, only to be forced from your home anyway. That's the reality some families are facing near massive data centers. We shouldn't have to worry about losing our water so Corrupt Bigshots can build more AI data centers. Sign the petition to stop AI data centers >> claytontuckertx.com/stop_ai_… #Texas #AIDatacenters #ProtectTexasWater #PeopleOverProfits

Spotted in Kingsbury, New York, another stack of broken panels, sitting out in the open next to a solar complex. When panels are broken in this way, lead, silver, cadmium, tin, and zinc leach out of them onto the soil below. They also drop microplastics, glass shards (pictured below), and PFAS (forever chemicals). Since the complexes are installed with out-of-state, and as we saw in Western New York this week, out-of-country labor, the workers are not concerned with environmental contamination at the worksite. There is no regulatory body monitoring the installation of these solar complexes in Upstate New York. It's a free-for-all, equipped with green energy subsidies, credits, and foreign corporations. This is what it gets you. The destruction of our rural way of life in real-time while panels poison prime farmland or animal habitat. The power doesn't stay local (if it's even tied-in at all). Property values surrounding the complex go down. Taxes go up to make-up for the hundreds of acres taken out of the property tax roll. This must end.

Data Center Backlash: Eminent Domain and Stranded Asset Forecast Risk musictech.solutions/2026/06/… via @musictechsolve

“I’ll get a band in here tonight - an all-Targaryen band tonight! Don’t think that’s not possible!”

Mr. Bill Frisell is a most noteworthy jazz guitarist. He & I shared an episode as special guests on Ms. @NorahJones ’ podcast, “Norah Jones is Playing Along,” which shall be released for your enjoyment on this June the 16th. Stay tuned via RonCarterJazz.com

2 LOCAL ENGINEERS refute the @DCBLOXinc rep’s claims: “Waterless cooling does not mean more environmentally-friendly… they are going to continually burn fossil fuels and pollute our communities… not just the one @NashvilleZoo, the one at @Fisk1866 too.”

If you live in the state of Georgia please support Peter Hubbard and Shelia Edwards’ for the Public Service Commission. This commission needs a complete turn over.

Full house at The State Theatre last night!

Reminder @TheBandCracker is playing The Golden Age in its entirety. Tonight at The State Theatre Falls Church VA.

You literally can’t make this up Residents are miserable with the 24/7 noise being made by a new data center in Wolfe County, Kentucky Investigation shows the tax revenue generated from the data center is only $11,450 for a year So residents like Barbara Campbell who’s lived there 40 years say it has disrupted their peace and quiet 24/7 for nearly 3 years, affecting quality of life, property values, wildlife with fewer birds and sleep…. All for the city to get only $11k per year They’ve been sold out

A Reuters/Ipsos poll found that TWO-THIRDS of Americans disagreed with the rapid construction of AI-driven data centers, and over THREE-QUARTERS worry that AI development could raise electricity costs.

Authorities Are Tracking Anti-Tech Extremism

The 47th Annual Tri-C Jazz Fest in Cleveland, Ohio, is where you shall find my Foursight Quartet (@ReneeRosnes, @JimmyGreene, Payton Crossley) on the bandstand on June 27th. Hosting us as our venue will be Playhouse Square. Tickets via RonCarterJazz.com 📸: Attila Kleb

Let's say this truly was about "saving the climate" as the foreign corporations and the politicians on their lobbying payrolls claim. Let's say they really meant it. Even though they told us 25 years ago we'd all be under water by now. Let's entertain the idea they really want to "fix" our climate. First, I would say to you... if you read any shred of the Epstein Files or are familiar with them, I would hope you know by now that these people don't care about you. In fact, they despise you. You're a resource drain to them. Please wake up to that fact. Anyway, let's say they really do care about our "broken" climate. If they cared about a broken climate, do you know what they'd be prioritizing right now? Forests, grasslands, and wetlands. Let's look at grasslands. ORES particularly loves siting commercial solar and wind on grasslands. Why? It's already cleared and ready for the taking (which means faster subsidy and credits payouts for them). Grasslands are one of the most powerful carbon sinks on planet earth. 20–30% of global soil carbon is stored inside in grassland ecosystems. Clearing these ecosystems, removing their topsoil, and jamming panel anchors into the soil releases that stored carbon... right into the atmosphere. The native plants that grow at grasslands contain dense, deep root systems (often 6–15 feet deep) that continuously deposit carbon... meaning they take excess CO₂ OUT OF THE AIR and store it underground. This is all about lowering our carbon dioxide in the air, right? According to the people who want to "save the environment using renewable energy?" And what about forests? They are cutting thousands of trees down statewide right now to make way for commercial solar, wind, and battery storage. Forests absorb 7–10 billion metric tons of CO₂ per year. That’s about 2–3 billion tons of carbon annually. This equals roughly 20–30% of human fossil fuel emissions each year. Forests also currently store about 660–860 billion tons of carbon in trees (trunks, branches, leaves), roots, and forest soils. Grasslands and forests not only store carbon, but they also actively remove excess CO₂ from the AIR as real-life filters built into planet earth. Leaving them INTACT, and investing in MORE grassland and forest cover for the planet, would solve a climate crisis much more effectively and efficiently than inserting Chinese-made PFAS coated solar panels over compacted and destroyed soil. They know this. They're counting on you, the commoner, to not wake up to the biggest scam ever peddled on the American public. Consider for a moment today, please, that when Al Gore made his Inconvenient Truth and paid schools to show it to middle school age children (I was forced to watch this at my school... twice), that he just maybe didn't have your best interest at heart. It's always been about money. Putting you into a place of FEAR makes them more MONEY. Please wake up to this today! A collective awakening to what is really going on here through the "green energy" Trojan horse is the only way we're going to actually save and preserve our environment.