{"id":914754,"date":"2026-09-30T01:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T01:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/914754\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T01:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T01:40:09","slug":"south-park-takes-on-ai-data-centers-with-butters-in-the-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/914754\/","title":{"rendered":"‘South Park’ Takes on AI Data Centers With Butters in the Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSouth Park<\/a> is back on Comedy Central on Wednesday night after a two-week hiatus, and it seems Season 29 will stick with the show\u2019s name change to South America<\/a><\/a> as Butters wades into the controversies around AI.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe latest episode of the satirical animated series may jettison politics in favor of some sharp commentary on the tech world, as the data centers powering artificial intelligence suck up resources. Butters, the beloved fifth wheel to main characters Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny, is \u201cunhappy with the data centers that the billionaires are building in our backyards.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThat logline, released by Comedy Central on Tuesday, suggests that a few familiar faces from Silicon Valley could turn up in South Park. But who would fit the bill? Peter Thiel already visited town in Season 28\u2019s fan-favorite episode \u201cTwisted Christian,\u201d though it didn\u2019t quite feel like the show was done with the character. Other possibilities include Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg or, of course, Elon Musk.<\/p>\n

\n\tThey can\u2019t say they weren\u2019t warned.<\/p>\n

\n\tSouth America\u2018s creators have already taken a swipe at the tech world this season, skewering some of the industry\u2019s giants over their near-immediate compliance after the Trump administration renamed Lake Ontario Lake America. That move led to the show\u2019s name change, which Trey Parker<\/a> and Matt Stone<\/a> explained in a Sept. 8 press release<\/a>: \u201cInspired by the bravery and patriotism of Apple and Google, we are changing the name of South Park to \u2018SOUTH AMERICA.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe latest episode of the Emmy-winning series airs Wednesday at 10 p.m. ET\/PT on Comedy Central and will stream on Paramount+ and on demand after the premiere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Park is back on Comedy Central on Wednesday night after a two-week hiatus, and it seems Season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":914755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,18413,19235,16652,18416,348],"class_list":["post-914754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-matt-stone","tag-south-america","tag-south-park","tag-trey-parker","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}