What have you learned about why this gift was made?

So Yellowstone Forever says this gift is all about the future of the park.

They say it's for research and education, it's for a new visitor education center at Norris Geyser Basin, and it's for an initiative that'll help Wyoming residents and community members and students engage with the park.

That said, it looks very different to onlookers.

I talked with an expert in greenwashing, Thomas Lyon, at the University of Michigan.

He said it's a really common tactic for corporations, especially those with kind of a shady track record, to use philanthropy to make up for their perceived wrongdoings in the past.

And according to University of Michigan Amherst Polling, only about 11% of Americans support data centers in their communities.

I'm curious, are these initiatives that the park needed? Yeah.

Well, yeah, if you wanna kinda do the features.

They are like mini tanks, underwater tanks.

So they're, they're armored.

Uh, they've got this exoskeleton.

Um, they're this beautiful olive green color.

Um, they are a nocturnal species, so to see 'em in the daytime as we're looking at them in the survey tray today is a treat.

They've got two sets of... two pairs of antennae, so they've got a long pair and a, and a shorter pair, uh, how they sense the environment.

Although saying that though, you did say that it got in here, right?

They were gonna ruin my, where I lived, and they were gonna dam the Little Tennessee River and ruin everything I knew, and I didn't like that one iota of a bit.

And fight they did.

In the years that followed, appraisers came to the door.

She says they were mean men, trained to be bullies, and her folks told them only marginally more politely to F right off.

Their first line of defense was the legal system.

Banding together with other farmers fighting the project, they managed to get a 16-month stop order on the dam using the National Environmental Policy Act.

They claimed TVA hadn't analyzed what damming the river would mean for the ecosystem.

If these agencies weren't so serially addicted to serving the corporate interests that they're supposed to be regulating, then they wouldn't be in this pickle.