Stop Doom-Scrolling and Look at What Musk is Doing to Memphis Right Now

Memphis is just the beginning. Big Tech is building thousands more.

The year is 2030. Elon Musk and a handful of other Silicon Valley trillionaires have built thousands of data centers across the globe. These facilities consume so much electricity that the existing power grid couldn’t keep up. Thousands of methane turbines and nuclear power plants had to be constructed just to keep the servers humming. Your power bill has tripled. Your water tastes like chemicals. The air in most cities is barely breathable without filtration masks.

And what are these data centers doing with all this power? They are training AI chatbots to generate edgy jokes. They are building robot sex dolls with emotional intelligence. They are creating autonomous weapons to maintain the peace, which is a polite way of saying crush dissent before it can organize. They are turning the beautiful planet into a giant buzzing machine so billionaires can feel like gods, because no amount of money or power is ever enough for men whose egos exist in inverse proportion to their humanity.

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