Triumph

States require oil to defend against other states. Their own populations can be kept in check by economics, where the people (generally speaking) have just enough to get by. People like that don’t engage in revolution. They’re primarily concerned with keeping their noses above the water line.

A population with balanced wealth has the freedom to think about more than survival. A population without enough to survive on has nothing left to lose. Maintaining that economic knife’s edge is how states control their populations.

And if the wealthy need to “resist” a data center, they have the power to do so quietly, successfully, and with little effort. Poor neighborhoods can make all the noise they want, to little or no effect.

Hate to burst your bubble, but I imagine that was said about the American revolution, the French revolution, the Haitian revolution, the English civil war, the Russian revolution(s), …

No matter what happens, someone is going to consolidate power in the aftermath. We can hope that it’s benevolent for a time.

Which is not to say there shouldn’t be a revolution. The scales need a lot of balancing. But they always need some balancing; it’s matter of whether there’s the political and physical will of the people to do it.

I’m going to go out on a limb here: Nobody is building data centers near wealthy neighborhoods.

ADL speaking for the FBI now?

Healthcare and showers are cost centers.

It can be real hard dealing with an onslaught of criticism from a growing cohort of internet randos.