Listen up, folks, because if you thought the elites were just content with telling you what to eat, drive, and think, think again. They’ve got their sights set on your thermostat, your TV, and even your fancy electric car battery. And leading the charge is none other than Patricia Poppe, the big cheese at California’s PG&E, who’s been caught on tape spilling the beans about how the state – yeah, your friendly neighborhood government – should remotely regulate your energy usage with AI. Because nothing says “freedom” like some faceless bureaucrat deciding when you can crank up the AC on a scorching day.
This isn’t some dystopian fever dream from a bad sci-fi flick. Poppe laid it all out back in January 2023 at the World Economic Forum’s shindig in Davos – you know, that annual gathering where billionaires jet in on private planes to lecture the rest of us peasants about saving the planet. During a panel on “Mastering New Energy Economics,” she gushed about a 2022 heatwave in California where the state blasted out emergency texts begging people to cut back on power. Boom – 2,500 megawatts vanished from the grid in an instant. Californians, being the compliant types they are, played along. But Poppe wasn’t satisfied with that voluntary nonsense. Oh no. She wants it automated. “We shouldn’t have to send a text message,” she said with a straight face. “It worked, but what it says is that could be automated with smart devices, WiFi communicating devices, and electric vehicles as a power resource, bi-directional power resource, back to the grid.”
Translation for those not fluent in elite-speak: Your smart thermostat? They’ll turn it down. Your EV? They’ll suck the juice right out of it to “smooth the demand curve” when the grid gets cranky. And AI will be the enforcer, making sure you don’t get too comfortable while the bigwigs sip champagne in their air-conditioned mansions. Poppe calls it “demand management” and “anyways economics” – as in, you’ve already bought the gadget, so why not let the state hijack it? It’s all about optimizing “distributed variable resources” to deliver power “the right way at the right time.” Sure, Patti. And I’m the Easter Bunny.
Patricia Poppe, the CEO of California utility PG&E, enthusiastically explains her cheerful vision of a future in which they will use AI to automatically disable your devices and drain your electric vehicle battery to “smooth demand.” https://t.co/uHS5bSxtQG
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) August 8, 2025
Fast forward to August 8, 2025, and this clip is blowing up again, reminding everyone just how insidious this plan is. With AI exploding – think data centers guzzling electricity like it’s going out of style – the pressure on the grid is only ramping up. Global data centers scarfed down 500 terawatt-hours in 2023, and projections say that could triple to 1,500 by 2030. Under current policies, that’s an extra 1.7 gigatons of greenhouse gas emissions between 2025 and 2030 – about as much as Italy belches out over five years. But instead of unleashing reliable energy like natural gas or nuclear to keep up, the geniuses want to ration your usage. Because why build more power plants when you can just flip switches in people’s homes?
And don’t get me started on the World Economic Forum’s fingerprints all over this. Poppe wasn’t just some random invitee; she was right there on stage with oil execs, economists, and government honchos, pushing their vision of a “clean energy transition” where the little guy gets squeezed. The WEF’s been obsessed with “energy economics” and “sustainability” for years, code for top-down control over every aspect of your life. They talk a big game about “public-private cooperation” to shape global agendas, but it’s really about herding the masses into compliance while the Klaus Schwabs of the world live large. Remember their “Great Reset”? This is it in action – you’ll own nothing, including control over your own damn light switch, and you’ll be happy about it. Or else.
Recent revelations? Just look at the chatter exploding online. On August 8, 2025, folks are sharing Poppe’s words like wildfire, connecting the dots to how AI’s voracious appetite for power – already 3% of global energy and climbing – plays right into this control freak fantasy. Sam Altman of OpenAI even admitted back in May 2023 that “the cost of AI will converge to the cost of energy.” Fast-forward to 2025, and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is warning Congress that AI could eventually hog 99% of the world’s electricity. Meanwhile, California’s already leading the charge with “smart grids” that aren’t so smart for your wallet or your liberty. PG&E’s pushing rate hikes – a 12.8% jump in 2024, another nibble in 2025 – all while dreaming of draining your EV to prop up their flaky system.
This isn’t about saving the planet; it’s about power – the kind that flows through wires and the kind that flows from DC to your living room. Poppe’s vision, echoed by the WEF crowd, is Big Brother with a green twist: They’ll decide when you cool off, charge up, or binge-watch. And if you think it’s just California, wake up – this is the blueprint for everywhere. America First means keeping these globalist busybodies out of our outlets. Fight back, or get ready to sweat in the dark.