Data centers now consume 6 percent of all electricity in the United States. Two years ago that figure was considerably lower. The jump is almost entirely driven by AI.

The biggest facilities now draw as much power as small cities. Global data center consumption has hit 67.7 gigawatts, a 36 percent increase in two years. The US accounts for 43 percent of that total. In Germany, data centers consume 9.5 percent of national electricity. In the UK, 5.8 percent.

A new report from the International Data Center Authority identifies a threshold: significant community and political pushback tends to begin once data centers surpass 5 percent of a country's power supply. The US crossed that line.

Hundreds of state-level bills to regulate data centers have been introduced. In Maine, the legislature passed a bill halting construction of large data centers until 2027 before the governor vetoed it. Developers in Northern Virginia's Data Center Alley, already the densest concentration of facilities in the world, cannot launch new projects until 2032 due to energy scarcity.

Water is equally contested. A single large facility can consume as much water daily as 6,500 households.

There is also waste baked into the existing system. An estimated 13 percent of US cloud consumption comes from abandoned test environments and unused applications that continue drawing power around the clock without doing anything useful.

Annual global data center spending is approaching $1 trillion, with up to $700 billion anticipated in the US alone this year. The industry shows no sign of slowing.

Whether the grid can absorb what's coming, and how hard communities push back, may determine whether the AI boom continues or runs into a wall it can't compute its way through.

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Taken all together, flock cameras, data centers, and AI form a connected digital ecosystem: the cameras gather information from the physical world, data centers store and process it, and AI helps interpret it efficiently.

The result is a system designed for rapid search and pattern recognition of human facial features and minutiae of life habits with ongoing tracking improvements driven by the data it collects that is stored in data centers and micro grids.

That electronic digital net that runs on our power grids does infinitely more than tracking “bad guys”.

Tied with robotics, that system along with that digital net that is being cast has the superpowers of computing strength and an all-seeing eye which provides electronic control far beyond human capabilities which is a helluva lot of control.

Basically 8 gazillionaires are at the global helm of a potential crossroads of humanity as the future of an entire species lies in the balance, and they are driven in an imbalanced way by money, power, and greed.

We’re in trouble if we don’t get this one right.

Think about it…

Our politicians are selling our future out whether they realize it or not.

Don’t encourage the digital net of surveillance and digital handcuffs which is the building of these data centers where the data they're collecting on us will be stored, and they will have control at the helm more and more efficiently.

And the digital control noose tightens.

 

 The CEO of BlackRock, Larry Fink, says ordinary people’s savings accounts and pension funds, worth trillions of dollars will be used to build data centers and power grids for AI. He says that people will be forced to invest in it. The direct quote is, “Much of this will come from savings accounts and pension accounts.”

Translation = New World Order coming in hot!

The Epstein class is building the surveillance and digital currency network right now.

Banking and development economist, Richard Werner, just echoed what Catherine Austin Fitts has been saying for the longest time. He said.

“We are so close to the scariest, most dystopian system. This is what the drive to build all these thousands of data centers is about, to micromanage the world's population through.

We're heading towards digital control systems where we have no more control over our liquid assets. It will be programmable, permission-based, so only what the central planners allow you to use your money for, at what time and place and location will be permitted.

And if you're in the wrong place, it's not going to work. And If you're buying the wrong book, it's not gonna work. Your money won't work outside a certain zone, whether it's 15-minute prison zone or whatever it may be. It is the totalitarian dictator's dream come true”

Data centers are infrastructure for control.

They are essential for the massive computing power needed to track, analyze, and micromanage billions of transactions in real-time under a “New Financial World Order.”

This includes enforcing rules on what you can buy, where you can spend, and when “15-minute city” style geographic restrictions or blacklisting certain purchases

AI isn’t just for chatbots or efficiency. It’s the perfect tool for the surveillance, predictive analytics and an automated enforcement layer on top of digital money

It’s all for the massive camera infrastructure being installed all over America with Flock. Everything is connected. This is the surveillance state being constructed.

 

I am from California. I've lived in the Bay Area, and in the heart of the San Joaquin Valley where the most productive vegetables and fruits, orchards, and millions of acres of vineyards in the world are grown. Getting off the highway, any road you choose to drive down shows on the left and the right side thousands of acres of fields growing vegetables, and fruit. As you drive, the landscape changes into thousands of acres on both sides of assorted orchards of nuts and fruit trees. This scenic view of agriculture can go on for a staggering number of miles as you pass through small agricultural towns on your tour. That is central California from Sacramento past Bakersfield going into the L.A. area California is millions upon millions of acres of farm land.
 

 

A BILLIONAIRE is running for Governor of California on a platform of "tax me more." He literally wears a hat that says "Class Traitor" to his rallies. And progressives are actually buying in.

Tom Steyer is worth $2.4 billion. That's not a typo.

The hedge fund founder turned climate activist has spent over $132 million of his own money to campaign for Governor of California, and his entire pitch is that people like him should pay drastically more in taxes.

He calls himself a "class traitor." He has it embroidered on his baseball cap. Furthermore, he says he will vote yes on a first-of-its-kind state wealth tax targeting California's richest residents. He's been endorsed by Our Revolution, the group Bernie Sanders founded.

The California Democratic Socialists endorsed him too, writing in their official statement that Steyer is "somehow" the most progressive candidate in the race "despite being a billionaire" who earned his wealth through "exploitation of the working class."

That has to be one of the most reluctant endorsements in the history of left-wing politics, and they still gave it to him.

Why? Because the anti-billionaire energy in this country is real and growing.

53% of Americans now say billionaires threaten American democracy, up 7 points in two years. Nearly 80% say they'd back a billionaire who "challenges unjust systems."

Bernie's Fighting Oligarchy tour is filling arenas. Mamdani is taxing pied-à-terre apartments and slashing NYC's deficit. AOC said flatly this month that you "can't earn a billion dollars" and a national debate broke out for days.

People are sick of being squeezed. Gas in California is over $6 a gallon. Rent is crushing. Groceries are spiking.

And while working families pick which bills to skip this month, Trump is fundraising at Mar-a-Lago and building a $300 million ballroom at the White House with billionaire donors.

Here's what California voters are wrestling with: if the billionaire is the one promising to dismantle the billionaire class, do you take the trade? It's a real question. The party that lectures working people about respectability while losing to a guy in a red hat is about to find out.

The class war is officially on.

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THE DOLLAR IS DEAD.

THE PETRODOLLAR EXPIRED. AND NO ONE TOLD YOU.

June 9, 2024. The 50-year petrodollar agreement between the United States and Saudi Arabia expired. Not renewed. Not renegotiated. Ended.

The single agreement that made the US dollar the world's reserve currency — gone. And the mainstream media covered it for exactly zero minutes.

Nixon made a deal with Saudi Arabia. All oil sold globally would be priced exclusively in US dollars. In exchange, America provided military protection to the Saudi kingdom.

This meant every country on Earth needed dollars to buy energy. Demand for dollars was infinite — not because of American productivity, but because of a handshake in a desert 50 years ago.

That handshake is over.

Saudi Arabia is now accepting yuan. Rubles. Rupees. Gold. Any currency. From any nation. The exclusive dollar requirement — eliminated.

When the world no longer needs your currency to buy energy, the demand for your currency collapses. When demand collapses, value collapses. When value collapses — inflation isn't a cycle. It's a death spiral.

The dollar isn't weakening. It's dying. On a schedule. And the replacement is already built.

BRICS. Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa — now expanded to include Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Ethiopia, and Iran. 45% of the world's population. 35% of global GDP. Building a parallel financial system that doesn't use the dollar. Doesn't use SWIFT. Doesn't answer to Washington.

A gold-backed BRICS currency is in development. Asset-backed. Auditable. Not printed from air by a private bank.

The world is choosing. And it's not choosing the dollar.

This is not collapse. This is transition. The dollar dying is the Federal Reserve dying. The Fed dying is the debt dying. The debt dying is your slavery ending.

You were never in debt. The CORPORATION called the United States was in debt — using your birth certificate as collateral. When the corporation's currency dies, the corporation's debt dies with it.

What replaces it: Treasury notes. Gold-backed. Issued by the restored Republic. No Fed. No interest. No infinite printing. Real money. For the first time in 111 years.

The death of the dollar is not the end. It's the beginning of everything they kept from you.

They built an empire on a handshake and a gas pump. The handshake is over. The pump accepts other currencies now. And the empire built on paper is dissolving back into the nothing it was printed from. What comes next is real.