Mark Zuckerberg – whose Meta goliath already operates 26 massive data centers and is now spending $600 billion to plop more of them in our communities – has launched a multimillion-dollar offensive to beat back local opponents.
Their billions are from our wallets in most cases. Stop being their customers. Buy from local companies that are not owned by the billionaires. Make your own meals, pack your own lunches - without processed meats or other "products" of their industries when you can - stop eating from fast food companies. Shop at thrift stores. Shop at local people's stores. Shop at Amish stores. Show others how to beat the billionaires. Support workers' rights - don't shop at major and large scale businesses if there are no thriving worker's union employees there - as often as you can. (And "data centers" are, in fact, our individual - and our Earth's - enemies, deadly enemies.) We can defeat the billionaires. We are not stupid. Damn them.
We noticed. It's happening here in Georgia, with eager help from local government fat cats. Thank God for the Alley Cats, led by top cat Jim Hightower! MEEEEOOOOOWWWW!
If we are a capitalist society, why are these companies not putting up the capital to build out new infrastructure to support their business ideas?, why are we paying for the development and operating costs of these AI centers when we will gain NOTHING from them, in fact they say they will eliminate jobs! The oligarchy/kleptocracy must be destroyed.
Thank you for bringing this to the fore Jim - it really does require grassroots action! The mad rush for data centers is really to support two different billionaire Ponzi schemes - not just AI but crypto mining as well. As the saying goes, follow the money. The magnitude of the hype, hyperbole and prevarication are directly proportional to the profit and societal control potential for the techno/kleptocrats. There are technical solutions for the data center water usage problem, but for the average citizen, the cost of electric power will continue to go up. As long as the Trump administration is pushing to develop natural gas the US doesn't need, so we can lead the world in energy export (I swear, the man truly is living in the 50s!) and fuel the energy for these unnecessary data centers, the bottom line effect will not be greater prosperity for Americans but greater prosperity and control for the techno/kleptocrats!
Seems like it's always a facist or communist government trying to take over the world or some part of it. Corporate Socialism is building new ways to usurp natural resources, price them and numbers peak over the mineral resources. Military industrial madness is killing the Earth, while lobbyists are writing the rules of destruction, as dictated by Homo Economicus. Then the Mafia moves in? Watching "Seven Years in Tibet" with Brad Pitt
It's well past time to stop living under their fascist oligarchic thumbs, and press our collective thumbs down on their criminal heads. No authoritarian "data centers", boycott in entirety any company determined to slam their monopolistic bullshit down our throats.
As Mark Twain said "Whiskey's for drinkin' WATER's for fighting: every environmental and local social justice group must rise up to fight this AI invasion.
I had a facebook account 10 years or so ago for 2 weeks. When I realized what drivel was in there and how much unwanted exposure I was subjected to, that account was closed quickly. I wish all social media would blow away. Make no mistake - it's not for US, It's for THEM. Mark Fuc, uh, . . . Zuc-kerburg is among the most destructive homo sapiens ever. I LOVE what Spain and the Aussies are doing and hope many more countries follow suit. Not much chance that we will though.
The BILLIONAIRE ELITES are a threat to every single on of us. They are working to take control of our entire lives and serve them and them alone (can you say Servitude to the elites forever). A great resource to enlighten on how this is being done and what to do about it. "Burned By Billionaires: How Concentrated Wealth and Power are Ruining Our Lives and Planet" by Chuck Collins!!!
These elite moneyed corpracats, who are so bent on controlling everyone else need to learn how to control themselves and the corporations MUST be controlled by the government that sanctions their paperwork and the money that they speak. United States Government Representatives please do your job by denying them permits for planetary destruction
Americans must vote FOR politicians who will do the right thing AND vote OUT and CALL OUT every damn one of the politicians who refuse to stand up for the rest of us.
I'm disgusted by the greed of billionaires and the glorification of wealth in America. What a trail of wreckage it's left behind... And continues to leave. At the same time, I'm encouraged to the point of being delighted by the surge of people wanting to do something, anything, to make a change for the better. Taking action along with others is how it happens. Throw a pebble at a tank and it bounces off. Throw a million and the tank's buried, stopped in its tracks.
1%ers, CEO/corporate capitalists, and libertarian techies are de facto Social Darwinists. They believe in their own natural superiority; they made a fortune themselves or are heirs, inheritors of the best genes. Therefore the uber wealthy deserve to rule. The rest of us are inferior--lacking talent or failing to try hard enough. Of course we workers know darn well they didn't do everything all by themselves, but what lessers think is of no importance.
Because I lumped the elites into the same set of interests, I didn't see the differences. However, the cloud capitalist techies have remade the system. They're now powerful rentiers, each with their own fiefdom. We lessers are rapidly becoming cloud proles, their poorly paid workers, and cloud serfs, providing for free the mounds of data the rentiers capitalize on.
For a compelling argument and the source of the cloud classes I just mentioned, read the 2023 book by Yanis Varoufakis titled //TECHNOFEUDALISM (What Killed Capitalism)//. It's presented as a set of replies to his father, so not in EconSpeak but in normal human language.
So nobody ever asked us I don’t think certainly we didn’t vote on whether or not we wanted to have AI? And it seems to me like there’s not gonna be any choice at all. It will be integrated into all of our Texas systems whether we choose it or ask for it or want it… Or not. I wonder if these local communities were the data centers are springing up are making any kind of voter choice to OK the centers in their areas or were there the AI text just buy up the land and do what they want to do.
The Monroe County, WV Commission put an article in the Watchman (local newspaper) on February 4,2026 saying that the rumors that Database Centers are looking at 20 acres near Ballard have not been confirmed and if they get any further information they'll let us know. If we have any complaints or comments on Database Centers the W.V. State Legislature are now in charge and the public should contact our WVState Representatives.
Good god now we are going to have political a.i. ads. The ads have already started with republicons saying they stood by rump every crime. They are in a race to prove they stuck their head farther up rumps ass than the other rump kissers
Trumps son & son-in-law bought an area with many privately held windmills in the Panhandle That way they have low cost electric for their proposed data centers Those windmills kept going during that huge freeze a few years back[ I always thought Texas finally had a good idea Bend over & hold your boots!
Their billions are from our wallets in most cases. Stop being their customers. Buy from local companies that are not owned by the billionaires. Make your own meals, pack your own lunches - without processed meats or other "products" of their industries when you can - stop eating from fast food companies. Shop at thrift stores. Shop at local people's stores. Shop at Amish stores. Show others how to beat the billionaires. Support workers' rights - don't shop at major and large scale businesses if there are no thriving worker's union employees there - as often as you can. (And "data centers" are, in fact, our individual - and our Earth's - enemies, deadly enemies.) We can defeat the billionaires. We are not stupid. Damn them.
We noticed. It's happening here in Georgia, with eager help from local government fat cats. Thank God for the Alley Cats, led by top cat Jim Hightower! MEEEEOOOOOWWWW!
If we are a capitalist society, why are these companies not putting up the capital to build out new infrastructure to support their business ideas?, why are we paying for the development and operating costs of these AI centers when we will gain NOTHING from them, in fact they say they will eliminate jobs! The oligarchy/kleptocracy must be destroyed.
Thank you for bringing this to the fore Jim - it really does require grassroots action! The mad rush for data centers is really to support two different billionaire Ponzi schemes - not just AI but crypto mining as well. As the saying goes, follow the money. The magnitude of the hype, hyperbole and prevarication are directly proportional to the profit and societal control potential for the techno/kleptocrats. There are technical solutions for the data center water usage problem, but for the average citizen, the cost of electric power will continue to go up. As long as the Trump administration is pushing to develop natural gas the US doesn't need, so we can lead the world in energy export (I swear, the man truly is living in the 50s!) and fuel the energy for these unnecessary data centers, the bottom line effect will not be greater prosperity for Americans but greater prosperity and control for the techno/kleptocrats!
Seems like it's always a facist or communist government trying to take over the world or some part of it. Corporate Socialism is building new ways to usurp natural resources, price them and numbers peak over the mineral resources. Military industrial madness is killing the Earth, while lobbyists are writing the rules of destruction, as dictated by Homo Economicus. Then the Mafia moves in? Watching "Seven Years in Tibet" with Brad Pitt
Very well put!
It's well past time to stop living under their fascist oligarchic thumbs, and press our collective thumbs down on their criminal heads. No authoritarian "data centers", boycott in entirety any company determined to slam their monopolistic bullshit down our throats.
As Mark Twain said "Whiskey's for drinkin' WATER's for fighting: every environmental and local social justice group must rise up to fight this AI invasion.
As the Native Americans say: WATER IS LIFE!!
Yes!
I had a facebook account 10 years or so ago for 2 weeks. When I realized what drivel was in there and how much unwanted exposure I was subjected to, that account was closed quickly. I wish all social media would blow away. Make no mistake - it's not for US, It's for THEM. Mark Fuc, uh, . . . Zuc-kerburg is among the most destructive homo sapiens ever. I LOVE what Spain and the Aussies are doing and hope many more countries follow suit. Not much chance that we will though.
The BILLIONAIRE ELITES are a threat to every single on of us. They are working to take control of our entire lives and serve them and them alone (can you say Servitude to the elites forever). A great resource to enlighten on how this is being done and what to do about it. "Burned By Billionaires: How Concentrated Wealth and Power are Ruining Our Lives and Planet" by Chuck Collins!!!
These elite moneyed corpracats, who are so bent on controlling everyone else need to learn how to control themselves and the corporations MUST be controlled by the government that sanctions their paperwork and the money that they speak. United States Government Representatives please do your job by denying them permits for planetary destruction
Americans must vote FOR politicians who will do the right thing AND vote OUT and CALL OUT every damn one of the politicians who refuse to stand up for the rest of us.
Yes! Yes! Yes!
I'm disgusted by the greed of billionaires and the glorification of wealth in America. What a trail of wreckage it's left behind... And continues to leave. At the same time, I'm encouraged to the point of being delighted by the surge of people wanting to do something, anything, to make a change for the better. Taking action along with others is how it happens. Throw a pebble at a tank and it bounces off. Throw a million and the tank's buried, stopped in its tracks.
And what is an ocean but a multitude of drops
Indeed... Let it rain.
Thanks, Sandra
1%ers, CEO/corporate capitalists, and libertarian techies are de facto Social Darwinists. They believe in their own natural superiority; they made a fortune themselves or are heirs, inheritors of the best genes. Therefore the uber wealthy deserve to rule. The rest of us are inferior--lacking talent or failing to try hard enough. Of course we workers know darn well they didn't do everything all by themselves, but what lessers think is of no importance.
Because I lumped the elites into the same set of interests, I didn't see the differences. However, the cloud capitalist techies have remade the system. They're now powerful rentiers, each with their own fiefdom. We lessers are rapidly becoming cloud proles, their poorly paid workers, and cloud serfs, providing for free the mounds of data the rentiers capitalize on.
For a compelling argument and the source of the cloud classes I just mentioned, read the 2023 book by Yanis Varoufakis titled //TECHNOFEUDALISM (What Killed Capitalism)//. It's presented as a set of replies to his father, so not in EconSpeak but in normal human language.
Most billionaires and their heirs pulled themselves up by their inherited bootstraps. No natural superiority whatsoever.
So nobody ever asked us I don’t think certainly we didn’t vote on whether or not we wanted to have AI? And it seems to me like there’s not gonna be any choice at all. It will be integrated into all of our Texas systems whether we choose it or ask for it or want it… Or not. I wonder if these local communities were the data centers are springing up are making any kind of voter choice to OK the centers in their areas or were there the AI text just buy up the land and do what they want to do.
The Monroe County, WV Commission put an article in the Watchman (local newspaper) on February 4,2026 saying that the rumors that Database Centers are looking at 20 acres near Ballard have not been confirmed and if they get any further information they'll let us know. If we have any complaints or comments on Database Centers the W.V. State Legislature are now in charge and the public should contact our WVState Representatives.
Good god now we are going to have political a.i. ads. The ads have already started with republicons saying they stood by rump every crime. They are in a race to prove they stuck their head farther up rumps ass than the other rump kissers
AI IS A DISASTER JUST TRY TO GET THROUGH TO CUSTOMER SERVICE OR TECH HELP ...
Trumps son & son-in-law bought an area with many privately held windmills in the Panhandle That way they have low cost electric for their proposed data centers Those windmills kept going during that huge freeze a few years back[ I always thought Texas finally had a good idea Bend over & hold your boots!
Watching "The Josephine Baker Story" with Lynn Whitfield