In the Season Two premiere of Gaslit: The Power of Story, Tommy J. Hausman speaks with Citizens Action Coalition executive director Kerwin Olson about Indiana’s rapid expansion of AI data centers and what it could mean for Southern Indiana.

They examine Project Raider, an unidentified proposed 600-megawatt load in CenterPoint territory, and ask whether the grid can supply projects of this scale without shifting infrastructure, energy, and stranded-asset costs onto existing customers. The conversation explores utility regulation, water and pollution, aging coal plants, closed-door development agreements, voluntary consumer protections, and the promises of jobs and economic growth.

At the center of the episode is a fundamental question: Before communities surrender land, water, electricity, tax revenue, and public money, what m ...