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Yasha Levine's avatar

Apparently this CIA-connected AI data center builder is also in charge of Trump's ballroom renovations. So there will def be some weird shit underneath. A bunker or an Epstein dungeon.

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hierochloe's avatar

I was just going to mention they are doing the ballroom design. Many employees were less than happy to find out.

If you are still digging, it's worth noting that a huge portion of what is currently AECOM was formerly a firm named URS. Probably also should point out that they probably are not particularly unique as an A/E firm: see also Tetra Tech, Jacobs, WSP, etc. Lots of entities swimming in this same pool.

Definitely going to read that book.

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hierochloe's avatar

For example:

"Constellation Energy (CEG) surged 5.6% after securing a $1 billion loan from the Department of Energy to restart the Three Mile Island reactor, bucking a negative trend in the utilities sector."

I can almost guarantee that CEG has engaged multiple a/e firms to assist with this effort, with most/all staff involved in anything beyond environmental permitting required to have certain govt clearances.

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matt's avatar

Don't forget the huge environmental impact these data centers have. Ruin the local environment, and the noise they generate ruins everything around them .

Just watched a short documentary about residents near a data center in Texas. The noise it makes has basically makes living near a data center impossible.

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Kevan Hudson's avatar

Thanks for all the great articles recently on AI and the surveillance state (government/companies).

Bought Pistachio Wars and will watch soon.

All of the above makes me happy I am a paid subscriber.

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Blaise Dirkwell's avatar

The idea that they’ll be ae to rely on fusion power in “a few years” for this site is optimistic, but actually the last decade and has seen an increasing number of breakthroughs in the US and across the world in sustained fusion reactions, to the point where *commercial* fusion power projects are actively under development. It’s a wild and under-reported story. I guess this case refers to the Commonwealth fusion facility, whereas one called Orion is being built by Microsoft out in WA iirc. But that’s all tangential—just a pet interest I’m always excited to talk about.

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RT Happe's avatar

The dropped H gives the megacorp "trying to wet its beak" a coy pr0n touch. Start whetting and the vulture associations come flying back.

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Yasha Levine's avatar

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Joshua Jamesy's avatar

My boyfriend is an architect for 'Jacobs' who apparently works with AECOM. He doesn't reveal much about his work but mentioned he was going to help build a data center in the south somewhere. My response was - oh they found somewhere that wasn't protesting them. From the media I consume it seems data centers are deeply unpopular within every community they try to build one.

'Jacobs' also does contract work for the federal government (and other governments) - including evil companies like Lockheed Martin (a huge player in Colorado - lots of sponsored buildings) who support satanic organizations like the IDF.

https://www.jacobs.com/our-projects

This is something I dwell on for time to time. I live with him so do I benefit from this deal with the devil?

Maybe your reporting will reveal more.

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Yasha Levine's avatar

Yeah Jacobs was another one on the list of the biggest data center builders. Well...we're all implicated in all sorts of things. Money is always tainted. So I wouldn't sweat it too much on that front.

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Joshua Jamesy's avatar

Government work is the most stable kind of work. I would be skeptical in his position but Im not a fly on the wall.

You just have to find work you believe in. That kind of works. I enjoyed selling cannabis because I believe I’m helping people on some level.

When I worked at FedEx, I knew I was making Fred Smith more wealthy.

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Cynthia's avatar

If only MORE PEOPLE over there were working in ice cream factories !! Thanks for this, Yasha

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Joshua Jamesy's avatar

There were a lot of unhappy people making ice cream in constant physical pain. Those 10+ hour shifts were something. They gave us a “pint allowance”. We could take home so many pints a week. I NEVER took advantage of this. Ice cream is basically opium. lol miserable all day but you can enjoy that yummy sweet cream.

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Cynthia's avatar

Strangely, being a Londoner, I once ended up working at a US Twinkie factory that was similar but some of the nicest people I ever met worked there. I too avoided the “culls”

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Joshua Jamesy's avatar

I felt like I was supposed to be a machine. Sugar and cream can be yummy.

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Tom's avatar

I'm very familiar with Jacobs as well (comment about AECOM below) and have also worked with numerous Jacobs and ex-Jacobs employees during my stints in this world.

"You just have to find work you believe in."

In many past instances I've tried and failed to convince myself of that, so the logic I embraced to avoid personal philosophical inconsistency was instead: "Hey, I'm just taking the money the government steals from me to fund the war machine and putting it back in my bank account." Yeah, I know - weak sauce.

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Joshua Jamesy's avatar

I usually fail at it but the mind can validate the silliest things. I once worked at an ice cream factory - I hated it. Sometimes I'd tell myself I was making people smile (I did not convince myself) - similar to cannabis but in a detrimental way. Ice cream is bad for you after all.

Now if my job was top kitten killer of the rotten souls death squad I couldn't live with myself.

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Tom's avatar
Nov 20Edited

Interestingly enough, I was involved in some of the early, Obama-era-issued border fence crapola and one of our teaming partners early on was AECOM. Then California passed legislation making it illegal for any firm seeking state award money to participate in what by then had become Trump's Big Beautiful Wall. They bailed on the team because apparently the money they could make selling stuff to the state was too much to sacrifice in pursuit of the pork barrel border handouts.

Also germane, I'm going to be checking out that book about them that you cited and highly recommend "The Jakarta Method" by Vincent Bevins. Lays bare the evil at work during Cold War 1.0.

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