CAN WE REALLY AFFORD THOSE DATA CENTERS?

In Ashburn VA near Dulles Airport there is a village made to look exactly like Palo Alto. Megalithic Data Centers, myriad grey IC spook buildings without ID, corporations and MIC tech contracting companies and corporate housing neighborhoods gouge the land here that was once farmland whence I was a wee lad. Its sobering. The Dulles Parkway is full of intel agencies and aerospace HQs. Its as if the Deep State had set up a “Neu Berlin” replete with Albert Speer’s grandiose architecture all done up modern.
JWWIV

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A further thought occurred, that possibly the AI threat is much more mundane in nature. Picture a contrived scarcity scenario, where rationing is in place for internet access (in order to live) and rationed energy for domestic/industrial energy requirements. Create an expanding “outgroup”, (not unlike those of post Weimar and the Covid Scamdemic) who could be vilified and scapegoated for any scarcity at all, including UBI, available CDBCs, food, transport, healthcare etc etc… Of course the scarcity would actually be root caused, at least for energy, by ever expanding data centres for AI and AGI operations. But would those remaining within the reducing in group of social engineering care if the “unperson” is allowed (or even actively culled) to wither on the vine and outside of the systems of support, as long as the “ingroup” continue to receive a shrinking modicum of services and life supports?

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“By any means necessary…”

Scotties Tech Info posted this video concerning the Data Centers a few days ago. Thought it was worth adding to this thread rather than starting a new one, even though (in this author’s opinion) the threat represented here would certainly justify shouting it from the rooftops… before Blackrock “buys” all the rooftops and pays their newly turbo-nationalized “immigrant” security team to throw us off…

I’ve had to take a tolerance break from most of the news for the last several weeks as I can barely wrestle my thoughts into coherent arguments/complete sentences with a frustration level this high… It’s the same feeling as watching a horror movie unfold and yelling at the T.V. screen to try and keep the victim from making the obvious mistake that will lead to their ultimate death…

The video contains no new revelations to speak of, but Scottie wraps it up nicely and it would be a good one to share elsewhere with the uninitiated. Check out the comment section afterward if you opt to watch the video…

This one does a good job of explaining the first stages of the billionaires “rope-a-dope” and is also worth a watch.

In closing…here’s one of my favorite comments from the first video and I’ll echo the sentiment.
No good can come from these Data Centers…No good at all.

“For the sake of all of us, these things may need to be gotten rid of by any means necessary.”

By any means necessary…

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Wait until the masses not only get to pay exorbitant power charges, inaccurate readings because nearly all smart meters lose data when its internal memory maxes out like a mobile phone or loses power and records when its battery ceases during blackouts. But then wait until the carbon taxes are applied over an above your power charges due to the the data centre gobbling the gigawatts across all of its domains, internet use, internet provider platforms, EV connectivity, mobile phone connectivity, shopping online, shopping locally etc etc…

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Oh we shouldn’t be waiting on any masses to catch up… By that time we’ll probably be well into Scarmoge’s “Walking Dead” scenario in earnest…

You know, when “Love thy neighbor” will mostly refer to how much they taste like pork…

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Why don’t they come out and FLAT OT SAY IT!
AI is your newly realized; and EXTREMELY PERSONALIZED…
TECHNOCRATIC-DIGITIZED PRISON-WARDEN.

It’s expensive!
For now - transformitively, siloed beyond-secret!
AND As Crazy-As-A-Fox…
In the GLOBalized Chicken Coop?

[IMO]

Yes, like in the movie, “They Live”. :laughing:

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… Thanks for the reminder to add to my prep list … good BBQ sauce. :slight_smile:

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That reminds me…One should always remember to keep the apocalypse condiments rotated, and don’t forget some packets of meat tenderizer. Adrenaline tends to make the looters come out too tough/chewy.

Morale is very important in a post-apocalyptic situation. If the zombie stew doesn’t come out right my wife would never let me hear the end of it.

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One does what one can, as one did before during the scamdemic. But experience of the scamdemic would indicate that the vast majority, escaping their cognitive dissonance, post mass formation does not bode well for early resistance against any future infringements upon their personal liberties and/or wellbeing (material or otherwise). The majority I fear will not likely react until they are actually and materially touched. It may well be too late in the proceedings, and when that happens it may be rather unpleasant. But on another level that may be precisely what a militarised technocratic state would be looking for. If the local anti-uncontrolled-immigration protests are anything to go by.

Don’t forget to stock pasta. I prefer a brand made in Italy that will stop shipping to the US in January because of the tariff costs. The expiration dates on the packaging are in 2028.

I spoke to a student in my ceramic class about the abuse of water usage and the data centers in Phoenix. I mentioned the need to take action, and er answer was “well, we can’t do anything about it.” All I could think of was CAF’s admonition “get up off the couch.” It seems that most people see it as an inevitability and taking action is (as they would respond to me in Puerto Rico) “Hey, man, not my yob.”

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That is precisely the problem. We are at the separation point of the wheat from the chafe. This is our test. We can and should continue to be active in protest and persuasion, but horses, troughs and drinking water come to mind. We have a traumatised population post 2008/Covid/Forever Wars/Assassinations/ Regime changing and rampant corruption in all the high places who were conformist before but are incapable to a large extent due to all of that mass formation.
There fewer and fewer available reference points which is the function of the chaos operating and unleashed into the world today. The solutions will not be convenient, easy or even safe perhaps, but that is the challenge to those who see now. It will come down to networking and community building of likeminded in their own localities and perhaps online it that remains available post the Digital Services Acts in EU and likewise regulation elsewhere. There is still to learn, co-operate and prepare.

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And here it is ChatGPT “analysis” of your text.
Please don’t be angry with me, Doctor.
I just wanted to show how inhuman this “artificial intelligence” is, and heartless, and cold.














And plus this, even though I just copied and pasted it, without asking for an analysis of the text. It just confirms what I said before.

















… I would be interested to know what the software’s output (do not anthropomorphize these programs, they are programs) would be if you fed its critique back into the program). Just curious …

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Often something different every time even if the input is totally unaltered…

But hey, let’s hook it in to everything

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For your curiosity. I have inserted this screenshot written by ChatGPT directly into the questions section.

Here is the answer.



And as for programs, I agree with you. Programs are just programs, in extremely complicated electrical circuits that we call hardware. Which continuously interfere, interact, communicate, influence…etc with and within the environment, that is, the medium. After all, the human body is in part an electrically sophisticated circuit.

And ofcourse there is this
from a long time ago kind of language programming…

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Ah, behold the automated social-credit-scoring machine! Here’s all the algorithm will need to automatically reduce an individual’s score to a negative number, lock a bank account, or impose whatever other sanction: “This rhetorical style positions the author as a dissident outsider” (from summary under section 1, Tone and Rhetorical Style).

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No more tongue in check or satire humor allowed!

Very interesting reference, Acts 2:

v1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
v2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
v3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
v4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

Imagery of “tongues of fire” (since Sunday School) have now been replaced with cloven (split) tongues LIKE as of fire (but NOT fire). Electrical discharges.

Fascinating, Captain.

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