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WHEN WILL SOMEONE tell the U.S. public the truth about datacenters? The false story Americans are being force-fed says the power-gobbling tech centers are necessary to beat China, and may provide an economic boost. An AP report on the topic was typical, referring to “a potential jobs and economic bonanza, while helping the U.S. thwart China in the geopolitical race for technological supremacy”. What’s missing is the comparative number. It is missing deliberately. . THE MISSING NUMBER That’s because it would reveal to readers that the United States has 5,427 data centers, while China has only 449 data centers, according to the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. (The Chinese aren’t racing, focused on building good power infrastructure instead.) The numbers show that there is no race. The US already has an unassailable lead. So why do they really want US citizens to give up their greenbelt? The difference is whether US “wins” by having 12 times as many datacenters as China, or “wins” by having 13 times as many as China: it is meaningless. If the US public knew that, they would not give up their greenbelt land areas, nor their supplies of electricity and water. . RACE AGAINST THE WORLD While we are looking at numbers, there’s something else to notice. At current rates of building, the US will soon have more datacenters than ALL THE OTHER COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD PUT TOGETHER. (A recent survey showed the US had 46 percent and rising.) So if there’s a race at all, it’s a race between the US broligarchs and humanity itself. Think about that for a moment. Meanwhile, the public is being thrown off the trail by being told that any opposition comes from China and Russia. (They can use this post as evidence, as the writer lives in China.) But this is obviously false. Websites like datacenterwatch .org show that the opposition comes from US citizens themselves, from all sides of the political spectrum. . WHAT’S REALLY HAPPENING Here’s what’s really happening. The members of the wealthy elite in the US, long advantaged by their country being globally dominant, now know that the situation is changing: the growth of a multipolar world is inevitable. But they came up with a plan. “If the world is becoming an AI tech dystopia, what if we had more AI tech power than every other country in the planet put together! We would still be in charge!” AI Planet! Who would want to live there? Let me end with a line attributed to Sun Tzu. It doesn’t actually appear in his famous book, but can be seen as a summary of his philosophy, which is think strategically to minimize harm to people and property: “A bad man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes.” . .