The war against Christmas and the legacy Western culture it represents rages on. Here’s the news from the front.
Fox News urges replacement of Christmas tree farms with AI data centers, prods viewers to buy fake trees instead
Filled with palpable holiday spirit, Fox Business host Dagen McDowell recently threw her support behind an AI power transmission line that would displace a local Maryland Christmas tree farm.
For good measure, also in the spirit of Christmas, McDowell suggested that property owners in Maryland who resist the measures to commandeer their land for AI could simply have their state “sawed off” and dispatched into the Atlantic Ocean.
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Further, she encouraged viewers to purchase plastic Christmas trees instead of real ones — a necessary sacrifice, she explained, for the sake of constructing AI infrastructure.
Via Futurism (emphasis added):
Dagen McDowell, a co-host of the “The Big Money Show” on Fox Business, recently flaunted her zeal for AI — and her distaste for holiday cheer — by declaring that a beloved local Christmas tree farm should be sacrificed to make way for data center infrastructure.
McDowell was defending a proposed plan for a 67-mile long transmission line running through Maryland that would bring more power to the booming AI data centers in northern Virginia. The $424 million Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project is facing opposition from farmers and other property owners whose land is in its path, including the owners of a Maryland Christmas tree farm. Critics argue that Maryland would be acting as an “extension cord” for the AI data centers, seeing no real benefits from the infrastructure while enduring a massive eyesore…
“I think that the United States of America would gladly just saw off Maryland and kick it into the Atlantic Ocean if you don’t like it,” McDowell said. “If there is a need for electricity generation and a conduit like power lines to bring electricity to a densely populated area of business and growth like northern Virginia, then it’s not about AI, it’s actually about economic growth for the United States.”
“Number two, it’s a tree farm! Not growing food,” McDowell continued. “The alternative would be some liberal’s gonna put some giant solar panels on that land, and you’re not gonna be growing any Christmas trees either.”
Amid McDowell’s Scrooge-esque screed — which seems stunningly hypocritical coming from a network that has long accused liberals of waging a “war on Christmas” — the poor tree farm had at least one sympathetic voice among the Fox co-hosts. “This farm is going to lose all of its aesthetic appeal as a result of this,” Brian Brenberg argued, saying he’s seen the “gross-looking” transmission towers in person.
“There will be transmission lines that have to go through developments and farms,” McDowell decreed. “That’s the very nature of a growing economy. Everybody needs to get on board.”
“You know what?” she said, eliciting groans from her co-hosts. “Buy a fake tree!”
Fox News gal tells everyone just to get on board with this AI build out, and if you have to get a fake Christmas tree or they have to run lines over your property, so be it.
— john jackson (@pvtjokerus) December 14, 2025
Nah. Don't think I will.
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Although McDowell doesn’t outright say it in the clip, she appears to hint strongly at the use of eminent domain by the state to seize land wherever property owners refuse to sell.
I’m willing to take a bold position that Christmas tree owners ought not to be deprived of their livelihood so tech oligarchs can more conveniently construct their monstrosities that are unlikely to ever confer real economic benefit on the average American.
Others may disagree.
Although the breakneck speed at which AI is rapidly becoming the most powerful, transformative, and potentially destructive technology arguably in human history is alarming — especially when the social, political, and economic consequences are so poorly understood, much less defended against — the argument that the United States has to be the global leader is, one must concede, compelling.
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Even if the Maryland peasants are allowed to keep their Christmas tree farms and the rate of transformation into an AI-based economy is slowed down, China and other international actors are definitely not going to do the same.
The CCP, of course, has zero respect for property rights or civil liberties or any of the other barriers to AI expansion that exist in a liberal republic.
So it appears the arms race will continue unabated.
