JACK RICCARDI ON DEMAND AIRED TUES. 10/13/2026

Interesting thing, we learned an interesting, uh, thing about data centers.

Did you, did you see this in the news? Um, last week, the Ukrainians struck these big Russian data centers.

In fact, the biggest one in ye- in, uh, eastern, uh, Moscow.

And it was considered just a development in the war until somebody noticed what happened to social media.

When this data center, which is called Yandex, went offline, all of a sudden so did a lot of X accounts and X posts that were promoting Hamas, calling, uh, Israel a genocide, uh, and other things.

Now, one would expect that data centers in Russia would harbor pro-Russian, uh, narratives about Ukraine and the war and what have you, and praising Putin.

But people were surprised at how much, um, the sort of pro-Hamas, anti-Israel stuff just went down, just noticeably, measurably went down.

Um, there were also a number of accounts that Tucker Carlson references, um, which is also kind of interesting.

His views dropped 75% when this data center called Yandex went down.

And this could be a new way of, um, viewing or framing the data center debate because up until this point, people are either, well, they're all bad, or they're all good.

Or, like, good as in we need them.

But now people may start saying, "Well, what exactly, uh, what does that data center actually do?" It, it would be like being against all factories versus caring about what the factories make.

I think that's a kind of a comparison, right? Uh, speaking of Russia, I've been kind of keeping an eye on the plague.

We were hearing a lot about it, and then it just stopped being talked about.

I don't know if [chuckles] that's because other things happened or somebody pushed it back.

But, um, I noticed that the, um, Chinese have suddenly, and without any other explanation, uh, locked down their border or some of their borders with Russia.

So maybe they're taking the plague more seriously than the Western world is.

I don't know, just a thought.

Interesting thing, we learned an interesting, uh, thing about data centers.

Did you, did you see this in the news? Um, last week, the Ukrainians struck these big Russian data centers.

In fact, the biggest one in ye- in, uh, eastern, uh, Moscow.

And it was considered just a development in the war until somebody noticed what happened to social media.

When this data center, which is called Yandex, went offline, all of a sudden so did a lot of X accounts and X posts that were promoting Hamas, calling, uh, Israel a genocide, uh, and other things.

Now, one would expect that data centers in Russia would harbor pro-Russian, uh, narratives about Ukraine and the war and what have you, and praising Putin.

But people were surprised at how much, um, the sort of pro-Hamas, anti-Israel stuff just went down, just noticeably, measurably went down.

Um, there were also a number of accounts that Tucker Carlson references, um, which is also kind of interesting.

His views dropped 75% when this data center called Yandex went down.

And this could be a new way of, um, viewing or framing the data center debate because up until this point, people are either, well, they're all bad, or they're all good.

Or, like, good as in we need them.

But now people may start saying, "Well, what exactly, uh, what does that data center actually do?" It, it would be like being against all factories versus caring about what the factories make.

I think that's a kind of a comparison, right? Uh, speaking of Russia, I've been kind of keeping an eye on the plague.

We were hearing a lot about it, and then it just stopped being talked about.

I don't know if [chuckles] that's because other things happened or somebody pushed it back.

But, um, I noticed that the, um, Chinese have suddenly, and without any other explanation, uh, locked down their border or some of their borders with Russia.

So maybe they're taking the plague more seriously than the Western world is.

I don't know, just a thought.