While investigating who was building the data centers in the Nashville area for a podcast interview, the pieces fell into place. The main proposal comes from DC Blox for a site at 648 Grassmere Park in the Grassmere Business Park right next to the Nashville Zoo. Their plans start with a roughly 69,000 square foot building and expand to a much larger second one targeting around 50 MW of power capacity. A separate proposal at Fisk University adds another tech and data component. DC Blox based in Atlanta is the developer driving the Grassmere project through local permits. As I looked closer at the money behind it and what these massive AI facilities will power, the bigger picture became impossible to ignore.
The money comes from enormous interconnected global funds that give these projects nearly unlimited backing. DC Blox has already locked in well over $2 billion through green loans expanded to $850 million on top of earlier facilities and other financing including a $240 million deal from Global Infrastructure Partners now part of BlackRock. Equity backers include Future Standard tied to Post Road Group and Bain Capital Credit. This is not local money. It is big global capital flowing into data centers across the Southeast and beyond.
Larry Fink Links BlackRock to the World Economic Forum
Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, sits as Interim Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Board of Trustees. Remember the World Economic Forum which in a promo video “8 Predictions for the World in 2030” said “You will own nothing and be happy….. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better”.
The WEF pushes hard for the United Nations Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals. These plans promote digital transformation, centralized resource management and a shift to new economic systems. The end game openly discussed in these circles is a highly connected global framework where a small group of powerful players, the elite richest people in the world, shape how the world runs.
When a handful of people and institutions control the money, technology, and the rules, everyday freedom gets squeezed. That is the direction these initiatives point toward digital IDs and programmable currencies as key tools for tracking and controlling access to funds and your very ability to participate in society.
Here is the part that should make every American angry. These data centers are being funded in a roundabout way by ordinary people’s investments and retirement funds. The Big Three asset managers handle trillions of dollars sitting in 401(k)s IRAs pensions and index funds for millions of working families. That money flows into the funds that back the big three, BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street and their partners. In essence our own savings are being used to finance the very infrastructure that tightens control over our lives. They are using our money to build a digital prison for us.
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