Rising Progressive Populist Revolt Stuns AI Profiteers |
AI profiteers want to divert vast amounts of rural land, water and energy to build and run their Orwellian empires.
There’s a clique of plutocratic, high-tech billionaire AI profiteers who think they’re entitled to turn America’s farmlands and rural communities into their personal domain of predatory AI “data centers.” But a little bookstore in Tulsa, Okla., recently hit those puffed-up elites where they’re most vulnerable: The funny bone.
Magic City Books put up a sign that rocketed through the Internet, mocking the fatuous potentates:
SUPPORT THESE DATA CENTERS Schools Libraries Bookstores
Arrogantly, though, the likes of Amazon, Google and Meta are frontloading trillions of dollars into creating a new social order managed by super-intelligent bots. This scheme, however, requires these AI profiteers to divert vast amounts of rural land, water and energy to build and run their Orwellian empires. Yet, breathing the fumes of their own egos, the billionaires........