Push to blanket America with massive AI data surveillance
We long ago lost all sense of accountability from the federal government, which is now a creature of its own construction, making decisions on its own, with no connection whatsoever to the people it is supposed to answer to. But the advent of the data center boom in America is quickly revealing that state and local officials are no less an island unto themselves, acting in secret for the benefit of the rich and powerful, and to the detriment of their constituents. Citizens are seen as nothing more than a resource to collect taxes from, and the moment they start to ask questions, they get shouted down, ignored or in some cases even treated like suspected terrorists.
That’s a dangerous place for any country to be, but especially one with a history like that which America will celebrate on its 250th anniversary on July 4th, with citizens coming to the conclusion that their interests are no longer represented at any level of government. It’s becoming apparent that the whole shebang is sold out to the big-money crowd — state, local and federal. That’s called an oligarchy. Not a constitutional republic like what we’re supposed to be celebrating.
Take the case of Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, for example.
According to Fox 9 KMSP in Minneapolis, tensions ran high at the Inver Grove Heights City Council meeting on Monday night, June 22, as plans to discuss a controversial data center were derailed by an abrupt adjournment amid looks of disbelief from residents in attendance.
The meeting was set to include a vote on a moratorium on new data centers and a discussion about a proposed 54,000-square-foot data center in town.
But before the council discussed those issues, it voted to adjourn the meeting, rescheduling it for Friday morning.
The room erupted with people shouting, booing, and demanding a chance to speak. Only to be ignored by their elected officials. Mayor Brenda Dietrich left the council chambers without answering questions or addressing citizens’ demands for answers. Sorry, Mayor, but you don’t get to do that if we are still living in a representative democracy, but maybe she knows something we don’t. Maybe that idea only lives in our heads and has been quietly, for all practical purposes, exterminated by unseen power elites?
Many residents were angry, stressing that most people would be at work on Friday morning, leaving them unable to participate in the rescheduled meeting. Did that sway the mayor in her determination to shut down the meeting? Not at all. Take a look at the video below, where the mayor’s arrogance is on full display.
This is the kind of chicanery taking place at city councils and county commissions nationwide when it comes to the barrage of new data surveillance centers.
The anger and feeling of betrayal that is now building in Inver Grove Heights is not very different from what I’ve seen first hand in my own community of Coweta County, Georgia, where at least six data centers have been proposed and are being ramrodded down our throats whether we want them or not. Georgia Power, the state’s biggest electric utility, is using eminent domain to take people’s land, in an attempt to create power-grid expansions that accommodate the data surveillance centers.
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