About the only silver lining in all of this data centre/AI business resource abuse is that it is a clear and easily understood example of the competition between technocracy and democracy, big box corporations and indigenous business and between corporation/government and people.
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They are not Data Centers, they are warehouses for information used to control allocation of resources, including humans. Calling them Data Centers neutralizes their intended use.
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This is the same sentiment I share with those who have made it clear how they will “stand up to the oppressors” when the time comes (this list includes myself). The most likely scenario would be meeting ones end at the hands of some overzealous (un)civil servant attempting to enforce something as mundane as the lack of a digital ID, or an expired drivers licence (guilty)
Most of us won’t be lucky enough to pick the wall to which we ultimately put our backs. As romantic as it sounds to go out with a bang, such as perhaps driving a Killdozer through an unwanted Data Center (Weaponized information warehouse) that has cost an entire neighborhood their life savings…the enemy is abstract and well prepared.
We may indeed not like how the truth sets us free.
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That’s where the, “Sorry, that’s the policy. I have no say so over policy, just the enforcement, which is my assignment. Nothing personal. Now we can do this the easy way or the hard way. Your choice.”
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The easy way
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Guess that eliminates the hard way…
Wonderful Flannery O’Connor… hopefully there are some young people out there who have discovered or will discover her…
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Just to clarify, I never said there were not; I merely indicate that there are some cases where dialectic of oppositions breaks down as inadequate to a subject under discussion.
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