Soul harvesting machinery masquerading as an IKEA store
Lots of news about data centers these days. In fact, it appears that opposition to data centers is the only issue that can cut through America’s psyoped political culture, dominated as it normally is by petty divisions and cultural grievances manipulated and magnified by an oligarchic-industrial communication apparatus.
It makes sense that people are united in fighting data centers — that for people being against data centers is “above politics.” If a data center comes to your region, you’re going to get screwed over one way or another. There’s the loud noise that’ll give you actual Havana Syndrome. There’s the pollution coming off the massive gas turbines and/or diesel backup generators that’ll poison your lungs and the local environment. Then there’s the electromagnetic radiation given off by the massive electrical infrastructure that’s plugged into them that may or may not give you cancer. Then there are property values to consider. For many people, their home is their own store of wealth. And data centers depress home values wherever they appear, robbing people of whatever meager wealth they tried to store. Then there’s the cost of energy, which has been spiking everywhere data centers appear, adding to the crushing inflation we’re all feeling these days.
The companies building these data centers — Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, and Google — have been doing themselves no favors. There has been growing agreement among people that the technologies they’ve been forcing use are a malicious force. And so their data centers, arriving so forcefully and aggressively, are only helping to confirm people’s expanding suspicion. My sense is that data centers have made the internet real for people for the first time in their lives. Faced with these things, you can’t help but not realize that for years and years you’ve been sold a lie — “the cloud” that powered this magical tech is actually a bunch of polluting industrial sites.
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I’m working on a short VAMPIRE VALLEY installment about data centers — particularly about the data centers of Loudoun County, just outside of Washington D.C., infamous as the densest region of data centers in the world. One thing that comes up again and again as I log the footage is just how seamlessly these giant warehouse-sized computers fit into the larger suburban landscape. If it weren’t for the massive gas turbines and the carpet of AC units on their roofs, data centers would be hard to distinguish from the concrete tapestry of freeways, malls, drive-throughs, generic office parks, hospitals, and distribution centers. Data centers might be louder and hog a lot more energy…but, still, they blend right into the landscape. The fact that it’s hard to distinguish between normal suburban infrastructure and satanic data/soul harvesting machines…well…it says something about “normal.”
I promised I’d share my work with subscribers as I went along…so here is a video of me wandering around one of the satanic data mill complexes in Loudoun County, Virginia. As you can see, it doesn’t look all that different from an IKEA, Home Depot, or maybe an AMC movie theater.
