Greed, Surveillance, or Something Worse? Why Data Centers Are Exploding

So why are they doing this? Well, I have three theories. One is that they're just greedy and incompetent. And, you know, that's really like, it's crazy to think about. Oh, they're spending the data centers we've built thus far in 2025. They spent $2.5 trillion on that. So it's just crazy to think about that. It would be greed and incompetence, but I think that plays into it. I think that's a big part of it. The second is that, yes, that's what you brought up with surveillance, the flop cameras building this surveillance network. I definitely do sense that that is part of the equation. And we can look at China's surveillance systems, which they have the largest network of CCTV cameras on Earth. There's about 1.16 cameras to one person in the most major cities in China. So if you think about that, that's ridiculous. There's almost one camera per person. And so they have what is called Skynet, which is the name for the system that watches everything. It makes sure that it recognizes the people as they're walking through the city. And even that system is not real time. That system is not real time. So it requires an extreme amount of power to run these things. That's a possibility of these data centers. And also, a lot of people don't think about this, but our phones are now all running AI. If you're using a normal big tech phone, there has been AI that's been embedded as a core part of the operating system. Google phones have Google Gemini. Apple phones have Apple Intelligence. One day there is an update, and now you can't turn it off. Now it's just a core part that's baked in. So if that AI is looking at what you type, or even listening to what you're doing, that's going to require a massive number of data centers to process that data. And so, okay, so you gave three reasons, right? Greed, incompetence, surveillance. And then there's a third one, AI. Is that just kind of consumer AI, or what was that? The third reason is the more conspiratorial reason. So we have to all put our tinfoil hats on for this one. I mean, the way I see it is that these data centers, it's a coordinated push, right? It's not just the big tech companies. It's also the power companies. Many of the power companies in the US, and even the electric grids, have passed emergency regulation. There was so many interconnection requests to the grid in the Northeast that they didn't even have enough power to supply it, right? So we're at the point where our grids cannot be reliable because there are so many people applying for it. So you would think that they would push back and try to limit the requests, but no, what they did was they passed emergency regulation to pass these requests, actually, to make it easier and to give data centers new creative ways to, hey, all right, build a power plant where you are, or do a co-location with other providers, or bring temporary gas turbines, right? So all these creative solutions started popping up. And so they're giving them help. The less conspiratorial view would be like, the power companies just want to make more money, right? This is going to drive up energy costs for everyone. In some parts of the United States, Bloomberg estimated that its electricity prices are tripling in Virginia. So everyone's going to make more money there, and it's economic forces. They can do it, so they're doing it. The other thing is just the water aspect, too, because we've already gone through financial trauma here in the United States and in the world. We're not doing good financially, but there's this one thing left, which is land and power. So are data centers the final grab at our environment so that water is inaccessible? Is it easier to lead people through 15-minute cities if they can't feed themselves? And this is a real thing we have to think about. You made an interesting point there in terms of what these data centers do to rural America, because a lot of what I'm seeing, my hometown of Columbus, Ohio, there's a lot of big data centers there, but they're in relatively populated areas. New Albany is a big area, so they're not out in more rural areas, but a lot of what I'm seeing are these big data centers being built out near towns with 2,000 people, 1,000 people. And in certain ways, it's almost making those towns uninhabitable between the noise, the light pollution, the water. And so it's kind of like you either move further out into the country, or you kind of just move towards the cities if you're not going to end up living like that. And so, yeah, that's a big part of it. Because I try to look at these things, and you mentioned the tinfoil hat. I think I have one that's permanently glued to my scalp with how I look at everything. And I'm seeing, okay, how does this fit in to this more globalist agenda with 15-minute cities, with how does it tie into what the WHO is doing, what the WEF is doing, with BlackRock and some of these bigger organizations that we know have really been kind of slowly rolling out a somewhat dystopian way of life, to put it lightly. And so in terms of, you said this is a coordinated push. Now, I know that last year, Trump signed an executive order about data centers and kind of allocating federal land for them and doing some things to open doors for them. But you rarely see, it's kind of like when COVID happened, right? It wasn't some just random, organic, every country around the world had the exact same response, the exact same language, safe and effective, two weeks to slow the spread. It was pretty obvious for some people that it was a globally coordinated event. And so when you're looking at this push for data centers, would you say that it's centrally coordinated? And where is that push coming from for this? It's coming straight from the top. You can look at the Stargate project at the beginning of 2025, which was Trump, OpenAI, Oracle, SoftBank doing a $500 billion investment into data centers, that's just a tiny piece of the total pie, right? But that's a signal to institutional investors and to other big tech companies. And then Trump has also tried to pass legislation that goes even lighter on data centers and tries to make them critical infrastructure so they can escape environmental reviews and historical reviews. And we know he's already done that with other things like the 6G rollout with the American Broadband Deployment Act. Luckily, that was rejected specifically for data centers, but it doesn't really matter because it seems to have gotten the green light. And these companies have so much power in legislative, not legislative, legal finesse to have some of the best lawyers in the world. They weaseled their way in to every part of America. I'm just going to bring up the... So this is the country's aquifers. Actually, these are the major US aquifers. So you were mentioning earlier that, okay, this is something you wanna get out of these areas that are really bad with data centers and move out farther into the country. But for me, like a spiritual realization when I was working on this was, oh, dude, you don't even know how our water system works. I don't even know how our water system works. How does it work? And then it turns out we have these amazing giant bodies of water under the ground. So these bodies of water under the ground, they don't claim allegiance to a state or even a country, right? They're just in the ground. And so you see that data centers are more or less, especially the hyperscalers, are located near areas with aquifers, not all of them. Here's the hard truth. Every six years, your dollar loses half its buying power. 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