The gaping maw of the AI data centre beast is threatening to devour all energy and water on the planet. Awakened to this threat, people are organizing. This is the story of the fight against the data centres.
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Protesters clash with officials over Harwood AI Data Center plan
Exposing The Dark Side of America’s AI Data Center Explosion | View From Above | Business Insider
Port Washington council meeting erupts over data center project
Missouri Town Shuts Down Secretive AI Data Center
Data Center Energy Consumption: How Much Energy Did/Do/Will They Eat?
Tucson City Council rejects proposed Project Blue
Tucson City Council rejects proposed Project Blue
Proposed data center in Marana advances to next step
Data center moves forward: Marana Town Council approves land rezoning
US Withdraws From the UN’s Globalist Scam! (NWNW #615) – includes story on data centre pushback
Data Center Project Cancellations Quadrupled in 2025 As Locals Fight Back
Communities Push Back Against AI Data Center Expansion
Not One Drop: How an Arizona Community Came Together to Fight a Data Center
No Desert Data Center Coalition
Organizing Against Big Data w/Myaisha Hayes, Vivek Bharathan, and Keshaun Pearson
Supes OK Project Blue agreement; Marana data center moves ahead
National Data Center Moratorium Now! – letter to Congress
Why James (Probably) Won’t Sign Your Petition
Arizona’s data center projects stir tensions
James,
You might contact Dave Roberts who is currently leading the fight against a mega data center in Ohio. He could comment on the aspect of city/county officials breaking their oaths of office by signing NDAs and making back room deals. [SNIP – No email addresses in the comments section, please. You can contact me directly via the contact form. -JC] It’s okay to say that Lynn Bergeron (me) sent you.
Well !. Some time back you had a story titled The Digital Gulag. This story, this report is not the actual gulag building, but the spaceage evidence building and hall of records. A massive storage facility that will house and hold the evidence that will be needed to legally put you in the prison. Also to be built in the near future . At this point a private prison system is generally accepted and proliferation will soon follow as these data centers become operational. Make America Great Again. Jobs, jobs and more jobs. Just ask the county commissioners in Oklahoma about our private~public partnerships.
Oklahoma Ends Its Private Prison Era — For Good — Oklahoma Appleseed Center for Law & Justice https://share.google/0REYVaRllHbMqOFm6
Oklahoma paid the operators a lot to operate and now seems to have bought them all out. Wonder what that cost us?
Prison planet needs a world size evidence room. And we are just dumb enough to build our own hangman’s scaffolding. This is one opp that needs to be stopped at all costs.
For your information , The Digital Gulag
https://corbettreport.com/our-digital-gulag/
The new battle space now begins in your home and runs out to the farthest reaches of our Empire . Everything you say,read, buy, sell , eat , drink , smoke, think and hide is now being gathered and stored to be used for or against you in the future. In a data center.
Black Eye, from Oklahomans POS Senator Mark Wayne Mullins. Militaristic Brown shirts badge of honor, a black Eye. It’s a big club and you are not in it.
I’m back in Oklahoma— clearly… – Senator Markwayne Mullin | Facebook https://share.google/YXz9fWo0Tfw3nHRLW
Alaska is gearing up for a natural gas pipeline (decades long attempt), and this will supply “data farms.” Somehow these are needed for national security. I look forward to hearing from Michael Maharrey (I listen to all his moneymetals.com podcasts) as Alaska has a lot of public land which is very much (gleefully) on the target list for federal govt ($$$$).
There are many companies selling AI products and they have invested over trillion dollars WITHOUT any return.
The fact that they only cost money should be reason enough to stop the AI data centers.
It will be a waste of water, energy and other resources.
Within the programming community, the senior programmers see AI as slop generators.
AI can not make products with sufficient quality.
In the past there were “expert-systems” that helped with programming, but turned out to be slop generators as well.
They seem to work in small programs, but as a project grows, they become unmaintainable.
Many programmers and “elite” do believe that AI will become smarter,
but that is mathematically proven to be false.
(the “halting problem” states: a program can not understand itself. So it can not improve itself.)
So by mathematical law it is a waste of resources, and researchers are slowly learning the ultimate limits.
Additionally: The AI is already using its own generated data to train itself.
This means that it is polluting itself with slop. Which will lead to more slop.
The musicians and artists are the real victims of AI.
Business do not want top quality, but something cheap quickly.
There is a copyright problem though.
While AI seems to make something original, it is just copying other works (training data).
It mixes many works together using statistics and a noise generator.
Artists try to copyright-protect their work from AI.
Drowning in AI slop, cURL ends bug bounties
https://thenewstack.io/drowning-in-ai-slop-reports-curl-ends-bug-bounties/
Curl is an important tool in the internet communication.
In an attempt to collect bounties for bug reports, it is overrun with AI slop.
And none ever made a valid report.
A.I. Was Supposed to “Revolutionize” Work. In Many Offices, It’s Only Creating Chaos
https://slate.com/life/2026/01/work-artificial-intelligence-ai-office-chaos.html
Science is drowning in AI slop
https://archive.ph/Qe8Zd
We posted a job. Then came the AI slop, impersonator and recruiter scam
https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2026/01/24/we-posted-a-job-then-came-the-ai-slop-impersonator-and-recruiter-scam
Tech Companies Should Curb ‘Sycophantic And Delusional’ AI Outputs, Attorneys General Say
https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/tech-companies-should-curb-sycophantic-and-delusional-ai-outputs-attorneys-general-say
ChatGPT’s Use Of Song Lyrics Violates Copyright, Munich Court Finds
https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/chatgpts-use-song-lyrics-violates-copyright-munich-court-finds
AI-Generated ‘Workslop’ Masquerades As Good Work, Ruins Productivity: Harvard Review
https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/ai-generated-workslop-masquerades-good-work-ruins-productivity-harvard-review
How The AI Bubble Is Being Masked Within Big Tech
https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/how-ai-bubble-being-masked-within-big-tech
“The real bubble typically forms after the technology proves that it matters, not before, as that’s what gets most investors off the sidelines,” he told The Epoch Times.
Satyajit Das: AI – Artificial Intelligence or Absolute Insanity?
https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/satyajit-das-ai-artificial-intelligence-or-absolute-insanity
1- there are doubts about the technology.
2- financial returns may prove elusive.
3- there are financial circularities seen during the dot com boom.
Perhaps AI is designed for a non-commercial purposes.
Indeed, look at how it was used by Palantir by Israeli forces in Gaza.
It is being used by I.C.E. agents now in the US. (officers wear AI-enabled, internet-connected “Smart Glasses” from Meta/Ray-Ban that enable the wearer to, among other things, identify people in real-time using automated reverse image search techniques on the heads-up-display.)
Way to go James 👏👏
There are so many who need inspiration to resistance and action.
Hope this is the start of a generation seeing this as the “good ol’ days.”
GOTTA REMOVE THE CHAINS (song)
https://old.bitchute.com/video/q9HfWwcANpxg/
Here in Australia we have more than 250 data centres and, supposedly, another 175 are “needed” by 2030 to meet AI demand.
I’m not aware of any resistance against them comparable to what is seen in this episode of ‘Solutions Watch.’
The opinions expressed in the following article by our taxpayer funded national broadcaster, ABC, are not opposing them.
Some voice the concerns about water and power usage but are still in favour to build them.
Some of the reasons voiced in favour of them are pretty naive and ridiculous from my point of view.
For example, employment is mentioned without explaining what permanent jobs are supposedly available in the running of these centres.
If the resistance by the general population against the scamdemic lockdowns and mandates is any indication, the tech companies won’t have any problems to build as many centres as they want to.
No worries, just go for it!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-22/keppel-data-centre-latrobe-valley/106123748?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other
There are 155 data centers in Arizona presently, more being built as we speak. And way too many are in my recently rural area. I have been trying to find ANYBODY who is working on this issue, other than the Tucson group mentioned in this Solutions Watch. I am on fire to work with others towards eliminating the AI Slop machine that is being carelessly and brazenly rolled out. But I am no good as a lone wolf, need a tribe.
I can tell you from a lot of recent experience, that AI is getting sloppier and sloppier with its well-formatted bullshit. It used to be pretty good at explaining how to correct simple computer problems (errors, etc.). But now, 9 out of 10 responses are utter crap. I told Lumo AI (Proton product) the model of appliance I have and asked how to check a fuse. Should be easy, right? It had me pulling a microwave off the wall, removing tons of screws and then taking off the back, to no avail. Turns out that the fuse was right in the front of the unit, no screws even needed. I hired someone to come fix the thing.
The last computer issue I had in Linux, its ‘solution’ was such slop that I ended up rebuilding the operating system from scratch to remedy its ‘remedy.’
AI is getting worse and worse. And you know what? Now, it doesn’t even apologize when it gives nonsense made-up horseshit answers! It used to apologize profusely. Now it just says “I am here to help.” “I am here to help.” “I am here to help.” (Help make me crazy is about it!)
LK,
As an auto mechanic for many years I got to thinking the more options on a car , the more there is to go wrong. My 1995 Dodge Ram with a Cummins diesel (which had my name on it when it was being build in 1994) does not have a electronic chip in it. My next oil change will be at 450k miles and it is still running strong. I optioned for the standard 5 speed transmission and manual windows which is no longer available. It seems as though the plan is to make the new stuff obsolete after a few years, but even worse is that the new stuff has all this unwanted spyware built into it.
I am Absolutely with you TruthSeeker regarding things becoming much too complicated and way too surveillable and controllable by others. The next oil change on my 2002 Honda Civic is at a bit less than 300,000 miles. While my car isn’t as old as yours, it still is made of real, heavy-duty steel, and has no surveillance equipment. I hope it lasts the rest of my life, honestly… Trouble is… since the private equity companies took over all the big car insurance companies, THEY no longer replace a totaled vehicle with another like it. (And they total most everything nowadays.) They’d give me a couple hundred bucks if my Civic got hit and tell me to go scratch. Scary stuff. Perhaps a good Corbett Report topic might be how private equity is turning services into slop!
Older technologies like well-crafted older vehicles are PRICELESS in my way of thinking.
What happens to the warmed water? Is it steam? Can it not be cooled, (more electricity at more expense) to at least used to try greening the desert as in Arabia and China’s deserts
People need the water more than they need a Data Center which collects personal info on them to be sold to those who will use it to manipulate them.
Making warm water even warmer in the desert is not a good thing even if it is returned to it’s source.
Thanks for this James.
I appreciate you highlighting my comment with information info on the sacrifice zones that will be scalped and suffocated in concrete on the alter of “sustainable development” to make way for the a.i. data beast to expand its reach.
Here in Canada the biggest hyper-scale data center they are trying to carve into the forest so it can suck the rivers dry and pump out toxins is in Alberta.
“Wonder Valley” is a proposed $70-billion-plus, 8.5 gigawatts AI data centre park in the Municipal District of Greenview, Alberta, near Grande Prairie, backed by Kevin O’Leary. Designed as the world’s largest AI hub.
For more info:
https://archive.org/details/albertawondervalleyAIdatacenter
I think it is important that we not only look at how we can use various legal monkey wrenches and pressure of statist officials to slow, stall or halt the construction of these facilities, but also consider more direct forms of sabotage.
For those living in the US, it is important to keep in mind that oligarchic Orwellian prison planet building corporations like Palantir are powered by data-centers and they weaponize those data centers working in conjunction with federal agents, intelligence operatives and other tax payer funded thugs (including I.C.E. agents).
So we are not just talking about stopping data centers because they will destroy your watershed, suck all the water out of desert aquifers (leaving farmers with no way to irrigate), cranking up your electric bill and clear cut forests to create these facilities, what we are talking about is sabotaging the nerve center of the psychopathic oligarch’s and statist goon’s operations used to oppress, commit genocide in Gaza, give I.C.E. agents real time augmented reality fascial recognition data through their smart glasses and track, surveille and perhaps kidnap citizens that are dissidents.
For those living in Texas, you should be aware that Palantir, known for providing surveillance systems to government agencies that are targeting US citizens and other human beings for harassment, beating, kidnapping and murder, providing targeting systems for Israeli killer drones and data mining your life to feed to their AI data beast, is planning on developing a data center in Texas at the Fermi campus outside Amarillo.
Fermi (a corporation specialized in providing Gigawatt Scale Power Next-Gen AI) execs have announced “those living in the local area are blessed to have AI capacity coming in”
I don’t know about you, but I would not feel “blessed” to have those psychopaths setting up shop in my area.
I`ll provide some additional info in subsequent comments with ideas for more direct forms of sabotage.
“The AI data centre boom is here. What will it mean for land, water and power in Canada?”
https://thenarwhal.ca/ai-data-centres-canada/
I would like to note that I have seen U.S Legislation that gave access to all the data collected by the U.S. government to the State of Israel. The reasoning at the time was that they were the only ones that could sort out that much data. Seeing how AIPAC (the Israel Lobby) is the only country in the world that has been allowed to lobby the U.S Congress without registering as a foreign agency, I am not surprised. This is also why the U.S government is acting more and more like the Terrorist State of Israel.
@TruthSeeker
I appreciate you sharing that bit of intel.
I was not aware but I am also not surprised.
Here in Canada, the smiley Bankster prime minister that pretends to be appalled by the mass murder of children in Gaza simultaneously profits from it and helps ensure war racket genocide continues. As I noted in my article on the war racket linked below the Canadian state has been one of the most steadfast supporters of the Israeli state’s occupation, apartheid and genocide against the Palestinians.
https://open.substack.com/pub/gavinmounsey/p/war-is-a-racketeering-operation
Talk of going “elbows up” notwithstanding, U.S. arms manufacturers will be a major beneficiary of Carney’s new military drive. Canada’s purchase agreement for 88 U.S-made F-35 jets still remains in effect, despite promises to review the purchase and buy at least some of the jets elsewhere. Canada has also placed orders for a batch of HIMARS missiles from the U.S., the same being used by the regime in Ukraine. It is no wonder then that the U.S. is so “thrilled” by Carney’s promise.
Carney is also going to spend 2 billion in tax dollars on AI Data Centers that will be utilized by psychopaths like Peter Theil co-founding these facilities that will offer Palantir A.I. services to Israeli killer drones (in essence, tax payer funded computers and servers housed on Canadian soil utilized for calculating the most efficient way to end human life).
Truth seeker
“…… I would like to note that I have seen U.S Legislation that gave access to all the data collected by the U.S. government to the State of Israel….”
I know that data sharing is the fact but what law gives them access?
Do you know when it was passed?
Pretty much every western government has its systems infiltrated and:or built by eiether Israeli tech firms or local Jews willing to give access to Israel….but I have never heard of a legal mandate
“Say Hi to Tech Bro Carney : As his government heedlessly embraces artificial intelligence, the threats to Canadians are clear.”
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/11/03/Say-Hi-Tech-Bro-Carney/
“Brookfield Provides $750M Credit Facility to Peter Thiel-Funded AI Data Centre Company Crusoe Energy : Palantir co-founder’s VC fund led a $600M funding round for Crusoe just months ago. Crusoe wants to build new gas-powered data centres in Alberta”
https://blundervalley.ca/blog/crusoe-thiel-brookfield/
“Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation Battles Massive “Artificial Intelligence” Data Center”
https://peterderrico.substack.com/p/sturgeon-lake-cree-nation-battles
Palantir engaged in plans for building a data center at Fermi campus in Texas
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/palantir-said-to-mull-data-center-at-fermi-campus-in-texas/
“Texans Are Fighting a 6,000 Acre Nuclear-Powered Datacenter”
https://www.404media.co/project-matador-datacenter-amarillo-texas/
“Sovereign AI aligns with Accenture, Palantir to build AI data centers in EMEA :
U.K.-based AI infrastructure provider Sovereign AI said on Wednesday that it has teamed with Accenture (ACN) and Palantir Technologies (PLTR) to help build its next-generation data centers throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/sovereign-ai-aligns-with-accenture-palantir-to-build-ai-data-centers-in-emea/ar-AA1UF8u7
Ideas for covert and overt guerilla direct action against the data beast (direct Sabotage)
1. These are power hungry facilities, cutting off power to the facilities could slow construction and/or cripple active operations and facility costs could increase so much that they are forced to stop construction and/or shut down the facility.
There is a movie that depicts a woman in Iceland that targets the powerlines feeding a power hungry aluminum industry facility.
“Woman At War – Official Trailer”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2v3_jHrvBQ
“The woman places an arrow on her bow, draws to her cheek, and fires.
The arrow arcs over a high-voltage electrical transmission line, carrying a non-conductive rope. She jogs to her arrow, and begins to reel in the rope. As she pulls it over the lines, a conductive cable is revealed to be attached to its end. As the cable bridges the three-phase power lines, a short-circuit ripples down the lines. Miles away, an aluminum smelter grinds to a halt.
Woman at War, however, did not disappoint. Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir gives a masterful performance as Halla, a happy middle-aged woman who appears content with her life as a choir director in an Icelandic city. She moves about her life with grace and serenity, riding her bicycle through the streets, swimming in the ocean, and talking with her sister and other friends.
But Halla leads a double life. Her apparently tranquil existence hides her true mission, a campaign against heavy industry that is destroying Iceland. A portrait of Nelson Mandela hangs on her wall at home, a constant reminder that yesterday’s terrorists may become the freedom fighters of history. This is, no doubt, a reference to the ANC sabotage campaigns that Mandela helped to lead in Apartheid South Africa beginning in 1961.
In his testimony when he was sentenced, Mandela describes his reasoning: “I do not deny that I planned sabotage,” he said. “I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people.”
The same reasoning is true for eco-saboteurs today…”
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“…The argument for sabotage in Woman at War is as undeniably real as the industry it tackles. Iceland’s abundant geothermal energy and hydropower extraction give it very low electricity prices, and has made it a global hot spot for aluminum smelting. The three aluminum smelters in Iceland use a full 73 percent of all electricity generated in the country.
Their power is supplied by geothermal energy harvesting facilities as well as a highly controversial hydroelectric dam that was opposed by environmental and community groups in the courts, via protest, and with direct action and ecosabotage. The smelters themselves are major polluters linked to birth defects, cancer, and bone deformations in nearby communities. And all of this industry destroys the land.
In this era of AI, the targeting of high-power electrical lines is particularly poignant.
In the film, Halla’s attacks are not spontaneous. Like Mandela, she has obviously conducted a rigorous assessment of the situation. Her actions are meticulously planned. She receives intelligence from a friend high in the Icelandic government. She operates carefully and intelligently, implementing reasonable security precautions while avoiding wholesale paranoia.
At one point, Halla evades her face being recorded by a drone by wearing a Nelson Mandela mask, in an echo of Mandela’s words in his book Long Walk to Freedom: “Living underground requires a seismic psychological shift,” Mandela wrote. “One has to plan every action, however small and seemingly insignificant. Nothing is innocent. Everything is questioned. You cannot be yourself; you must fully inhabit whatever role you have assumed… The key to being underground is to be invisible.”
– Max Wilbert (from his review of the above described film, here: https://maxwilbert.substack.com/p/woman-at-war )
2. Less covert forms of sabotage
Sabotage is just as useful as ever today — perhaps even more so, in an era in which complex chains of technologies and supply chains are required for even the most basic functioning of empire. Data centers, weapons manufacturing, surveillance networks, and oligarch financial systems are all vulnerable to sabotage.
Examples:
In the 70-s, a group of farmers in Iceland destroyed a dam that was going to drown out their farm lands (the opposite of what will happen to farmers in the southern US that are having their water stolen, but will have the same end result, farmers going bankrupt and having to sell their land).
More than a hundred farmers officially claimed responsibility for the explosion, which annihilated a small dam in the river on August 25, 1970. The area’s inhabitants were determined to prevent the construction of a much bigger dam, which would have destroyed vast quantities of this natural area, as well as most of the surrounding farmlands.
Just as determined to keep the saboteurs away from legal troubles, those who claimed responsibility kept a strict policy of silence, making it hard for the authorities to single out alleged leaders or protagonists.
(for more info: https://www.savingiceland.org/2013/05/preserving-the-laxa-explosion-blowing-up-dams-and-democracy-restrictions/ )
Many AI Data centers are dependent on hydroelectric power, some of them, in far northern locations fund and build dams specifically designed to power the data centers.
Another concrete example comes from the UK, where the group Palestine Action has repeatedly engaged in sabotage actions against Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems. (their tactics could perhaps be adapted for data centers)
Christopher Ketcham reported in November for Drop Site News:
“On a warm September night in 2020, in what would become the first of hundreds of acts of sabotage and vandalism, members of the UK-based protest group Palestine Action (PA) occupied the roof of a factory in the town of Shenstone, in Staffordshire, and started hacking at it with sledgehammers. The goal was to destroy the roof, make the site unviable, and stop production for as long as possible. Operated by Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer, the Shenstone facility specialized in the fabrication of drones that included so-called “loitering munitions,” otherwise known as suicide units. The purpose of loitering munitions, a hybrid drone-and-cruise missile, is to float for as long as possible behind enemy lines, await target acquisition, then self-destruct when dropped on the target. Loitering munitions have been used to horrific effect in the Gaza genocide…
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..The actionists had spent weeks scoping out the weaknesses at the Shenstone site. The factory had no guards posted at night, and the rooftop of the two-story building could be accessed simply by slapping a twenty-foot ladder against its side. In the darkness of the early hours of September 13, 2020, with the ladder positioned, they hauled their equipment onto the roof for an occupation planned to last five days. They carried tents, sleeping pads, a supply of food, many gallons of water, banners, spray-paint, and sledgehammers.
Once installed on the roof, the actionists went to work with the hammers. They bashed holes in the tarmac, broke windows, and smashed air conditioning units. They draped Palestinian flags on the façade of the building alongside a banner that said “SHUT ELBIT DOWN.” As day broke and the sun started to beat down, the exposed roof became a furnace and baked them. They held on for three days, negotiating with police who surrounded the facility.
The relentless raiding has been effective. In September, Elbit suddenly shut down another facility in Bristol that the group had targeted dozens of times. In 2022, after 18 straight months of PA actions— including break-ins, blockades, vandalism, and rooftop occupations—Elbit sold its drone-parts subsidiary Ferranti Technologies’ Power and Control in Waterhead. Hit so many times by PA, the Elbit factory in Tamworth permanently closed in March 2024 due to “falling profits and increased security costs,” according to a statement from the company. “The new owners,” reported the Guardian, “said they would not have any association with Elbit and cancel its defence contracts.” In 2022, Elbit lost out on a series of contracts with the UK government worth some $340 million, a loss which PA claimed credit for. Due to their constant disruptions, the group said, Elbit was now an “unreliable supplier.”
In some instances, the British public sided with actionists when they were brought to trial. In 2024, jurors refused to convict four PA members who caused $920,000 of damage to Teledyne, while two others were acquitted of criminal damage of Elbit’s Leicester factory. The public had figured out, Huda Ammori told me, that Palestine Action was “about valuing the lives of Palestinians more than the property and tools used to massacre them.” Sabotage and property destruction was okay if these were construed as acts against the machinery of genocide.”
– Christopher Ketcham (from his post “How to Monkeywrench a Genocide
Palestine Action, condemned as a terrorist group in the UK, has embraced property destruction as a means to undermine the arms pipeline to Israel.”)
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/how-to-monkeywrench-a-genocide
Max Wilbert has stated that “Sabotage is not a silver bullet that will solve all our problems. It can fail, and it can backfire. We should look at it as one tactic among many, each appropriate for certain circumstances.”
“Ecocide and ‘green’ colonialism in Sápmi : Data centers on indigenous land in Northern Europe”
https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12086-ecocide_and_green_colonialism_in_sapmi
G
Attacking the power system is rather a bad idea…..attacking and interrupting the supply lines ti an aluminum smelter dumps a massive load of electricity onto the grid and old Icelandic bow lady could have blacked out all of Iceland’s for a week. I have some minor experience with industrial electricity but am mainly going off stuff u have read about the operation of the grid.esp “the grid” by Gretchen bakke.
If you take out a desert data center power line you might be killing the local old folks who’s air con goes out or who’s insulin spoils without refrigeration…..you will certainly be a terrorist and end up in Pelican Bay in return for doing mere millions of potential earnings loss.
There have already been attempts or experiments on knocking out the local grids, and when we get a real one on the east or west coast it will be very interesting times up there if it’s out for a month or longer.
In short the grid will blow if u dump a sudden load if electric on it tjat has no where to go….if the grid blows lots of people can die
@Duck
Thanks for offering your two cents.
I never specifically suggested crippling an entire centralized power grid.
If someone has a giant data beast center being built in their backyard they may been compelled to take drastic action no matter what the law has to say about it.
I do not know if they could theoretically do it without sending ripple effects into messing with residential grids but I appreciate you pointing out that potential unintended side effect.
As the quote I shared above states Sabotage is not a silver bullet that will solve all our problems. It can fail, and it can backfire.
These potential downsides of such an extreme form of resistance against tyranny are worth considering for those that are facing the worst effects of such facilities in their backyards, so thanks for sharing the info.
Hopefully it is obvious that I was not suggesting it would be a good idea to take actions to sabotage equipment that would result in the loss of human life.
That said, the most specialized and nefarious cells of terrorists on Earth operate within governments and corporations, and their campaigns of terror are dependent on high tech infrastructure, so I would understand if someone took action to defend their land and children’s future against those institutionalized terrorists via property destruction.
G
The issue is that normal folks are just wanting their Netflix or their job and won’t start caring until their water or power bill gets crazy.
The Unabomber said that people today are totally dependent for their life and livilhoods on people they don’t know and can’t control and he is kinda right. I would be terrified to live in a big city right now.
I read a book on drinking water supply and its history about the same time as the Grid book mentioned above and it’s actually pretty disturbing……iirc the water supply in NYC couldnt be turned off for years because they were frightened the valve would stick shut- they put a new main in later but some nutter with access could have closed it and cut off the handle or something.
Nit suggesting your pro terrorist but the second someone does something like that they had better expect every one and their dog to turn against whatever they stand for.
@Duck
Ohhh sh*t he is talking about the uni-bomber again, I guess I brought that one on myself sharing links to how some Icelandic farmers went all rambo on some hydroelectric dams that would have drowned out their fields.. 🙂
“pro-terrorist” that is a fascinating term. It echoes to me of the talking points of post 911 statist talking heads that attacked anyone who suggested discretion or restraint regarding plans to blow the middle east into pieces.
What does that even mean? How would you describe a “pro-terrorist” ?
I have personally experienced a lot more terrorism being inflicted on my community by governments than any individuals.
Come to think of it, I think that anyone that is pro-government is a pro-terrorist. Ya, I am gonna go ahead and make that a unilateral declaration.
Pro-involuntary Government = Pro-terrorist.
G
The Unabomber was mentioned because he made a good point in how we are dependent on systems and people we can’t control or kniw or understand.
As to pro terrorist as a term- I’d say it means someone who is pro using terrorism. 😉
The term terrorist is a bit more hazy….but generally speaking it includes people who attack infrastructure (i guess you could be “an insurgent” which sounds a bit more “respectable “, lolol )
The thing is, however Nobel your cause, if you start messing with infrastructure you will cause actual “terror” to the sheeple….hell, if you interrupt their Netflix you will cause alarm, lolol.
Fking with systems will never get the normie on your side so the real question is if you have the physical ability to stop stuff like data centers with “insurgency” or “terrorism” or whatever you want to call it…..and chances are the answer is NO.
Taking down a power line or pipeline is probably not that hard even for a single nutter but you won’t keep it down for long and you won’t do it many times before your dead or in SuperMax
When you say you have experienced government terrorism i hope your being hyperbolic- do the SWAT team randomly murder people for unpaid parking tickets where you live? Do social services plant car bombs?
Or do they just fk with people via regulations and law and dish out the odd gratuitous kicking via cops?
We are still in the early days, I don’t much like the necessary evil of government but generally speaking no one in the western world has seen what real government terror looks like yet.
Government = terrorism, sounds just about right, number 4 and number 1 below are dead giveaways. Number 1 on top is quite orwellian, but that’s how these people operate.
terrorism American
[ter–uh-riz-uhm] / ˈtɛr əˌrɪz əm /
nounthe unlawful use of violence or threats to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or government, with the goal of furthering political, social, or ideological objectives.the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism.a terrorist method of governing or of resisting a government.intimidation or coercion by instilling fear.
terrorism British
/ ˈtɛrəˌrɪzəm /
nounsystematic use of violence and intimidation to achieve some goalthe act of terrorizingthe state of being terrorized
@mkey
Well said.
Covid 1984 was 100% a coordinated government terrorist plot (even within the president Bush era government propagandized defining of the term shared via Duck here) as the government certainly messed with infrastructure intentionally.
They also murdered helpless elderly people in nursing homes by the hundreds of thousands – millions with clot shots, respirators and remdesivir (among other things) terrorized little kids with mask mandates making them all screwed up and all kinds of other terrorism.
The jack booted thugs were and are terrorizing people yes, but there are more insidious forms of terrorism that strike at the vulnerabilities of the mind to inflict far deeper wounds than a baton, kick in the ribs or pepper spray.
Smart phones with social engineering AI modulated algorithms on “social media” filled with toxic garbage and propaganda are terrorizing most young people for about 8 hours a day now.
The terrorism is so relentless that people begin to capitulate into states of learned helplessness, fatalism and apathy (and they try to tell you government is a “necessary evil” and there is nothing you can do about it etc).
G
“…. The terrorism is so relentless that people begin to capitulate into states of learned helplessness, fatalism and apathy (and they try to tell you government is a “necessary evil” and there is nothing you can do about it etc)…..”
G you really ought to read the Unabomber if your going down that path- he can save you having to rethink all the same thoughts as he would agree with a lot of what you said.
That said I really don’t think you understand what you’re dealing with in regards to Gov- the people WANT it.
Until you understand why they want it no amount of performative behavior on anyone’s part will change anything. The power of Hollywood is making people think that they can cause freedom by some act (like at the end of V for vendetta for example) in people that fundamentally don’t want and are not ready for it.
People can’t bite the hand that feeds them. Those that like goyslop and watch tv and want free healthcare really have no choice but to love government, so they? This means that any change in direction can not come from the proles because the proles want what the system gives them just like natives from all around the world love the whisky and drugs and fast food the system brings them.
The system has a great trick of selling rebellion to people, but the rebels never see that they have been absorbed like a splinter into the system
@Duck
Re: “in regards to Gov- the people WANT it.
Until you understand why they want it no amount of performative behavior on anyone’s part will change anything.”
This is why the people want it:
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/implanted-sociopolitical-identities
It is not natural, it is inculcated, using systems like this:
https://substack.com/@gavinmounsey/note/c-207911147
Perhaps you are loving all the wonderful “healthcare” the government provides you and like being fed by their systems, and that is fine, I wish you all the best with that.
Some of us however, choose a different path, we do not use the so called “healthcare” of the medical industrial complex and we do not depend on government handouts. I have told you many times that I am a voluntaryist and also an animist, so while I will not initiate aggression against other humans I will defend myself and my kin in my immediate vicinity. If the government tries to Eminent Domain the land I steward so they can build a road or a mine (as they have done to my friend no more than 40 km from where I live) I will defend myself and my loved ones against those imperialistic terrorists, thugs and thieves by what ever means necessary.
Until then, I work to boycott those corrupt, unnecessary and parasitic governments (while helping many others to do the same).
If you want to say we are not rebels it makes no difference to me, I am interested in living with integrity and refusing to capitulate to tyrants, labels are not important.
G
You are missing the point – I guess I am not saying it clearly enough.
You are allowed be as rebellious as you like as long as you are not a threat to the system.
One dude, or even ten, are not threats to the system….go as Rambo wild as you like trying to stop them running a pipeline across your land and chances are the pipe line will run if they want it to. One person can not stop the machine because it has a lot of inertia.
You can posture as much as you like, you can even do “stuff”, but unless your “stuff” stops the system doing what it wants your just posturing and are contained within what the system allows.
Do not take this as me inflating myself or even attacking you. But you are every bit as programmed by the system as anyone else and you have an inflated sense of your own ability to act- in the secenario where you protect your land all by yourself you play the role assigned you by the system.
Why would you want to olay the looser role? Who programmed you with the idea that was koowel?
What’s the endgame here? The mentally challenged tech bros do not appear to be running the show. Turning a profit does not appear to be even a remote milestone.
So, what’s the angle? Could it be that the massive data collection effort will usher in a mass control hellscape? I don’t have to think very hard to get a sense of where this may be going: a big pop, a massive bailout and, something we used to refer to as, nationalization of the whole enterprise.
It’s too big to fail, you see!
The Chinese are going to beat us in the race toward the authoritarian’s wet dream, you see!
The Russians… oh, don’t get me started about the reds, we gotta take them all! Before they bomb your grandma; you wouldn’t want your grandmother to be bombed, would you?
I am wondering if some of this is cover – like, possibly, the US WH Ballroom – and the real angle has something to do with the upper-echelon crowd believing that the 6,000-year pole shift / solar micronova disaster is a genuine possibility and desiring infra to run (long-term) the complex processes that will be necessary to maintain their bunkers / underground facilities and supply, assuming they survive and most of us don’t.
That is, assuming they can come up with reliable / alternative power sources that could be buried or submersed and survive in an apocalyptic, ordinary-grid-down situation while being (to some extent) networked.
Maybe none of them are thinking this way; or maybe, as many propose, they plan to create the mass-casualty scenario that would bring something like this about anyhow. But from a basic business perspective, it makes no sense at all as unless some hitherto-unknown technology leap is about to be revealed, there is no conceivable way for the companies dominating this space to turn anything close to a profit.
One thing for sure is that the Oligarchs are looking to reduce the world population down to something they can “Control”, or replace with robots.
How much RAM nad GPUs do they need to run their underground complexes? Maybe they just want to stock up for “you never know”. A rebuild would inevitably be easier with a good preparation.
In the power department, I would not be surprised if they already had LFTR in a form of a small site power device. You could likely carry those wherever.
Another hypothesis that would fit well is the “ancient machine” scenario where this technology is required for it to rebuild, repair or spread around. Hat tip to ole Fact Checker.
mkey says:
“Turning a profit does not appear to be even a remote milestone.”
I hear ya.
Never mind the fact that many of the chips in these data centers will be outdated relics within a few years.
“Who is the consumer?” who will pay the tab for these massive expenditures.
Recently the nvidia’s sparkly jacket wearing demigod has stated they have a bunch of chips lined up for datacenters (i.e. physically fabricated) while there isn’t sufficient power to run them all. So they are parking them.
I am personally not worried about obsolescence because these incredibly complicated technologies have been hitting the wall a while now. Times when two parts produced at opposite ends of a two year period were leaps and bounds apart are long gone.
On the other hand, the very promise of future expenditures (40% of future RAM production) was sufficient to turn the market upside down, with massive price increases.
These promises were issued by people who do not have the most stellar record when it comes to keeping them. These fellas have been writing big checks all over the town. All on merit of future “A.I.” use and recently we could hear the microsoft indian star demigod that people (i.e. peasants) are tasked with finding good uses for it. As otherwise they (peasants) might not so thoroughly enjoy utilities’ price hikes.
I personally doubt people who run these manufacturing companies (the thre big RAM producers) are so stupid as to fail to see what everyone else is seeing.
They must know something is coming up, but what? How do you run a big company on promises of future deals with people who are (while accounting for some prohibitively expensive sweaters) obviously broke? How solvent are they to allow themselves to exit the “consumer market” and cut their short and mid-term income considerably?
If we apply what we know to this situation, I think it follows inevitably that this is the work of deep rooted fascism, as we refer to it. If we assume these companies are not marketplace actors but government departments, then this comport becomes readily understandable.
If this is what they planned for us then expensive RAM is not going to be an issue because we won’t ne able to cover the electric power bill anyway. Peasants in a feudal system don’t really need electricity.
Don’t take my word for it, here’s what Catherine Austin Fitts has to say about it.
https://youtu.be/rZQRMJUzH4k?si=TRtIU7j1iGOkhc5r&t=1467
CAF didn’t express the kill switch issue as eloquently as the rest. I’m confident the vehicle does not have to be an electric car for it to have the capability of having installed a remotely controlled switch. All cars today are jam packed with electronic baggage that can be rigged easily, and without it the vehicle won’t or even can’t run.
Mkey
Yes
The angel is finance…the AI companies send money around in a big circle to each other like their Robert Maxwells pension fund. As long as they can give the impression of doing something profitable they attract the fake money and the Ponzi scheme keeps going….sure they may do “some” useful things but as Ed Zitron (better offline podcast) keeps saying there is NO PATH to profit because it costs more to do AI then most people will ever pay for it.
It’s the dot com bubble risen frim the grave, only this time there is no where else to vent the gas and inflate the next bubble
.AI supports the use of Nvidia GPUs and Nvidia is basically holding up the stock market like Atlas the sky.
See #EdZitron of the #BetterOffline podcast for better explanations….he is kinda a leftie and he does get kinda emotional about it but I am pretty sure he’s on the ball.
Think locally act locally. People here need to focus on getting virtuous men (if there are any left) into the state and local gov’ts (hopefully not idiots too).
There’s been 3 cities/towns here in North Carolina to stop the data centers. One in Mooresville had the Earnhardts (Dale’s family) on the side of the data centers.
https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/local/matthews/matthews-nc-data-center-proposal-withdrawn-10-7-2025/275-f6ae7992-f0aa-4173-8c3c-010922f050bc
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/tract-pulls-plans-for-north-carolina-data-center-on-land-formerly-owned-by-nascar-legend-dale-earnhardt/
https://nodatacentermooresvillenc.com/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dale-earnhardt-widow-data-center-backs-off-mooresville-north-carolina-rcna224827
James Fishback, running for governor of Florida is saying he will ban AI data centers and more out of Flordia
https://x.com/j_fishback/status/2016167617472454974?s=20 “As Governor, I will ban Palantir in Florida.”
https://x.com/j_fishback/status/2013474219707744670?s=20 $0 from AIPAC
https://x.com/j_fishback/status/2012527719720845542?s=20 going after Blackstone
https://x.com/IrishCarBomb173/status/2010386260188356616?s=20 stop construction of Data Centers
https://x.com/joanfromdc/status/2014887755923234960?s=20 end flock cameras in Florida
I know I know believe it when we see it but hey not bad right now
https://x.com/joanfromdc/status/2014920220582740268?s=20 calls out Bibi and calls him a war criminal
Government isn’t very Voluntaryist
Bird
Yes, sure it is 😉
you volunteer to do what they say or they send you to jail
Great choice of a subject for “Solutions Watch”.
We managed to beet back a Data Center in Livingston County MI recently, but there are already 57 in the State.
They used a Consulting firm to float the idea and got the Howell Twp planning Commission to approve the rezoning of a thousand acres of productive farm land before anyone noticed, but by the time it got to the County Planning Commission the resistance was building and the county turned it down. Then it went back to the Twp Board of Trustees who were under great pleasure to turn it down, but before they could the Consulting Firm withdrew the Application.
Nowhere did they disclose who was going to be running this Data Center which was to be the largest in the State, yet I was able to find out it was META with a little digging. Mark Suckerberg collects data to be used against you if you use Facebook and he needs more space to store this info.
Who realy needs a Data Center?
Oh! and indeed there are water, electricity, and the destruction of productive farm land concerns as well.
I think that many of these data center projects will eventually fail.
For example: Leases/contracts need to be made…and then honored and paid for.
The LARGEST DATA CENTER on EARTH – Project Matador
East-southeast of James Even Pilato (280 miles/550 km) is Amarillo in the Texas panhandle.
(Amarillo gets some of its water via the Ogallala Aquifer groundwater seeping south from Nebraska/Kansas.)
EXCERPTS
What is Project Matador?
Project Matador, also known as the President Donald J. Trump Advanced Energy and Intelligence Campus is under construction about 12 miles northeast of Amarillo. As of the time this blog is released, if actually constructed, it would be the largest data center on earth, and it would be powered by the largest combination of gas, nuclear, solar and battery storage facilities ever built.
The key word is “if.” Recent reports say that one of Fermi’s first “tenants” already backed out of the project.
https://www.sierraclub.org/texas/blog/2025/12/project-matador-trump-ai-data-center-texas
Mystery solved: Amazon is the prospective tenant in talks with data center developer rocked by stock plunge
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mystery-solved-amazon-prospective-tenant-234218215.html
EXCERPT
…In September, Fermi, which is developing an 11-gigawatt data-center campus in the Texas Panhandle, said it had agreed to a nonbinding letter of intent with an investment-grade tenant to anchor the project. The tenant would take the first gigawatt of power across 12 facilities.
On Friday, December 12, Fermi’s stock plunged by nearly half after a securities filing said an unnamed prospective partner had canceled a $150 million advance to begin construction, known as an Advance in Aid of Construction Agreement, or AICA. The cancellation followed the end of an exclusivity period…
…Amazon is that tenant, Toby Neugebauer, Fermi’s billionaire CEO, confirmed in a December 15 phone call with Business Insider, discussing the talks that led to the cancellation. The tech giant has been negotiating the deal, which would pay more than $20 billion over the next 20 years, Neugebauer said….
HRS
I agree they will fail, the internet is unsustainable since it’s built with fake money and maintained mostly by people who cut n paste code without understanding it.
Hell, we will be lucky if the power grid stays up, let alone data centers tracking people who have no money to buy stuff from it.
See this article in Lancaster farming.com:
Data Center Developers Offered Farmer $60k Per Acre; He Preserved the Land Instead
Dan Sullivan, [SNIP – no email addresses in the comments section please. -JC] Jan 23, 2026
Farmers are interested in this. I know farmers who won’t sell to certain people/entities regardless of price for reasons like the welfare of their herds, even (my uncle sold for a lower price to someone who he knew would manage it properly). My family are all rural, they and their neighbors are actively opposed to data centers and programs like this one in Lancaster is worth covering and spreading.
Forgive my grammatical errors above. It’s early and I need coffee. The concept here is to have land preservation funds available which are then used to buy out the farmer/landowner and put an easement on the rural properties preserving their rural nature. Far more details in the article.
The AI Con by Emily Bender is a profitable read. I saw her in a podcast interview with Robert Wright. She tries to never imbibe ChatGP“I am not interested in reading something that nobody said and nobody wrote.” She believes it has no right to use ‘he, me’ pronouns. She does her very best to not read or see any synthetic media. I am not doing her justice… and her book was not so much on that topic… I will link to the podcast. https://m.youtube.c/
A reviewer wrote “My only quibble would be they could have done more to show how AI follows on the philosophy and practice of “scientific management” which was also the basis of “lean production.”
They examine the application of AI in various fields — to replace actors and writers in film making (and reduce their residuals from re-use), to convert newsroom staff into baby sitters of AI rather than actual journalism, and other areas, such as controlling labor and eliminating workers in Amazon warehouses and delivery system, leading to competitive stress injuries, as with other forms of automation. Essentially AI is a management tool to make more profit for the capitalist overlords.
They also point to an MIT study that productivity gains from AI thus far have been minimal. And if AI were to have to actually obey the copyright laws, it would probably be destroyed as a worthwhile investment. The New York Times lawsuit shows that prompts to ChatGPT can get it to churn out text that is verbatim from a New York Times article — in violation of copyright law. Hence Noam Chomsky’s quip that AI is “plaigarism software.”“
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwfSCCo6jXs
Roberts’ Wrights interview with Emily Bender and Alex Hanna. I did not think he was a good interviewer. However, I thought his guests were interesting.
59 Alex and Emily’s book, The AI Con
5:05 Beyond the AI booster-doomer spectrum
10:27 What—and who—is AI actually useful for?
19:54 The AI productivity question(s)
30:48 Emily: AI won’t take your job, it’ll just make it shi**ier
39:50 Stochastic parrots, Chinese rooms, and semantics
46:04 Are LLMs really black boxes?
56:33 Do AIs “understand” things?
59:49 Debating using AIs as experts
1:08:15 How “neural” are neural nets, really?
There has been a rapid increase in the number of Data Centres in Ireland in the last ten years making it the “Data centre capital of Europe”. This is due to the generous tax regime and government subsidies, Ireland’s connection to key subsea cable networks plus the favourable climate (mostly cool weather plus plenty of water I assume).
There are now130 data centres in Ireland, the vast majority of them in the Dublin area. Overall they consume 25% of the country’s total electricity compared to 3% across the EU as a whole. This is a greater consumption than by all urban households combined. This is forecast to rise to 30% by 2030 which is greater than the usage by ALL domestic properties.
A moratorium on new data centre connections to the grid was introduced in 2021 due to the strain on the electricity grid and the increasing likelihood of power blackouts. Lack of power availability has also limited the number of new house builds (further denting a key Governmnet target). Despite the moratorium there was an example of Government overturning local authority planning refusal for a massive data centre in Wicklow (“in the national interest” whatever that means). This moratorium has now been lifted as part of Ireland’s race to become an AI ready digital leader. The initiative is called LEAP – Large Energy User Action Plan. Shouldn’t that be called LEUAP? Most data centres will need to be co-located with “green energy parks” (i.e. covering up the countryside with wind and solar power generation equipment) which will mostly operate as private power generation centres. I guess there will also be banks of diesel generators for the times when there is no wind or sun. These “parks” are likely to be in rural areas so it gets rid of a few more cows as an added bonus.
It is unlikely that the growth in renewable energy generally or the planned upgrades to the network will be able to keep pace with data centre expansion as most of the extra electricity will be gobbled up by the data centres. All this adds to Ireland’s increasing carbon footprint which risks €28 billion in fines from the EU when it misses it’s climate obligations in a few years’ time. It also means that your average Patrick is going to be footing the bill for the grid expansion with higher bills and still risks being blacked out.
There have been local protests led mostly by Friends of the Earth and other climate campaigners. I wish them well of course but it does seem that the Irish Government consistently ignores public opinion on any and all topics.
Thank you for the update on Ireland. I believe our AI data centers here in America will also, initially, be using banks of diesel generators but I hear Trump wants to greenlight nuclear power plants.
None of this expansion is coming from the bottom up. There has been no hue and cry from the populace for what is going down. It is all top down generated. I dislike it when I see world headlines decrying America doing this or that, bombing boats, kidnapping heads of state, annexing Greenland, building out AI data centers, deploying untrained, masked militia on our streets, because American citizens have had no say so in any of it. We wake up and hear it on the news just like someone in Siberia.
Thanks! Indeed, none of us anywhere asked for any of this, none of us were consulted, none of us are important. Ireland is a powerless little country which has never been independent; it’s a vassal state of the U.S., the EU and the UK. It weaves it’s way as best it can and the Irish people manoeuvre themselves out of the latest rules and regs with real style. A while ago I made a comment on here joking that the U.S.’s next target (after Venezuela, Iran and Greenland) would be an invasion of Ireland so that Trump could pave it over with golf courses. Given that most of the Data Centres in Ireland are owned by or for the benefit of U.S. tech giants it appears that the invasion has already taken place. It’s interesting to note that every single government minister will be travelling abroad during the upcoming St Patrick’s day celebrations to promote Ireland’s interests (and get a free holiday). A full 9 of them will be in the U.S. promoting Irish U.S. pharmaceutical and tech industries so it seems this data centre expansion is not going stop. It’s sad but nevertheless, I’m happy to be here!
Seems as if Trump can go anywhere and do anything without asking anyone.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUGUr_wDaTb/
Two people (the Captain of a ship and a crew member) were taken out of Scotland at night by U.S forces. 🤷🏻♀️
Thorium-powered data centres, anyone?