Never has it been more apparent to me that our people and their product, capital and wealth are seen as nothing more than a means to an end by those who preside over Congress, as they continuously grasp for more, more and more – never satisfied and always demanding that we, the American people, make the sacrifices they themselves fear to make, or simply refuse to make from their own positions of greed and lust for power, fame [or infamy in most cases] and whatever glory they can manufacture in front of the mainstream media cameras. Always at the expense of the American working man and woman, and ultimately at the expense of America on the whole.

As noted fifty years ago, by Rod Serling – writer and producer of ‘The Twilight Zone’:

“The totalitarian state has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advances, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom.”

Artificial Intelligence is a destroyer, of children and their futures, freedom and liberty, mineral resources, and, most importantly, our water resources. Essentially it is an entity that can and most probably will make things much worse for all humanity before it finally pushes us to that one last extinction moment. And the real hell of it all is the fact that it really won’t make things better for the average American or any other person in the world, as the returns on the massive number of resources and wealth pumped into A.I. gives little in the way of beneficial returns or even profits on the dollar.

It’s already been suggested in numerous financial circles that an A.I. Bubble has formed that is larger than any heretofore seen anywhere in the world across history – seventeen times the size of the dot-com bubble and four times larger than the 2008 real estate bubble – due to the crazed euphoria being generated by all the A.I. hype and propaganda whereby everyone expects to “get rich quick” on the backs of taxpayers, as President Trump uses this mad rush of A.I. innovation to prop up the economy and our flagging, stagnant stock market, where money goes to disappear or is magically created from thin air.

Companies currently overextending themselves and spending scarce finances on A.I. will soon be forced to reassess their financial positions and the costs versus the return on capital invested. They probably will have to pull away to some degree from their A.I. adventurism, which will serve to reverse the parabolic rise of spending in this new field, and that will deflate the A.I. Bubble that has currently artificially inflated the entire stock market into a euphoric bubble that now exceeds the euphoria of the dot-com bubble of twenty-five years ago or the bubble that appeared just before the stock market crash of 1929.

Yes, my friends, things are about to get even more interesting here in America, curiouser and curiouser as Her leaders all jump down the rabbit hole on their way to Wonderland.

A good friend recently sent me a story about how A.I. was prompting some minor children to commit suicide, and as terrible as this sounds, for me, this is a completely different issue that bears on parents doing their proper duty to their children and teaching them the difference between reality and fantasy and delusion – that one will never be able to have a “relationship” with an A.I. entity, even when artificial intelligence takes the next leap, projected to happen by 2027, into becoming a fully conscious entity, an A.I. being capable of reasoning all on its own initiative known as Artificial General Intelligence.

It’s a fiction and a run down an elusive rabbit hole, but some children are falling for it. How and why is troublesome to ponder, because speaking for myself only, I was quite aware of the difference between what was real and what was simply my imagination at play and perhaps wishful thinking at an extremely young age – at least by age five, no more – and these children who are deluding themselves, excuse me for saying, are either incredibly stupid children or children with some form of mental illness laying dormant and awaiting for the right prompt to bring to life.

That’s a family issue that can be dealt with as such, between the children’s parents and some good doctors, if any can still be found today.

Aside from the aforementioned latent phenomenon, the existential threat of Artificial Intelligence is seen in the massive surveillance programs it already oversees and controls for both the U.S. and many tyrannical foreign powers, with plans in place in America to make it even more intrusive and contravening to our freedom and liberty and the Bill of Rights, even setting in motion new plans to push us into a cashless society, thus giving government total control over everything and everyone. And all of this before we ever reach the topic of the weapons of mass destruction A.I. has on the design table at the behest of its so-called “masters” – the major powers of the world in the U.S., China and Russia – soon to be prey to the real master, Artificial General Intelligence, to be killed and eaten whole.

The U.S. government already has the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act in place, that has moved from searching for cybersecurity threats from foreigners into becoming a Trojan horse now used to spy on all Americans, a backdoor program for gathering data on all Americans without warrants and in violation of our Fourth Amendment rights. Under the pretense of “cybersecurity” D.C. bureaucrats have built one of the largest domestic surveillance networks in the history of all mankind.

And we’re to quietly sit back and give them permission to build something even worse — to steal us blind in the process? Hell NO should be our resounding response across the land.

Senator Rand Paul recently noted:

“Washington’s bureaucrats are obsessed with control. They want to link your health data, tax records, and travel logs into one federal profile. That’s not security – that’s tyranny dressed up as efficiency.”

Going back at least a decade, I have warned of a hard push here in America for something very similar to China’s Social Credit Score, and we are already seeing it used in tyrannical European Union nations and Canada, once the defenders of the Faith and Western Civilization, now giving way to those things one would only expect to find in communist China or the old communist Soviet Union. It is government gone purely rabid, loco-crazy mad, whereby those in seats of power are empowered to scrutinize and “score” one’s every move and word, blacklist thousands or even millions of people, stop bank account access – as Canada has already done during the Trucker’s strike – and make it to where one cannot buy food or much of anything else [electronically anyway], by way of a single keystroke on at a computer terminal. One electronic glitch, one faux pas or misstep or wrong word of dissent and one finds themselves in economic hell, if not prison, all due to the dystopian world that A.I. is most assuredly going to build around us all.

As terrible as the controls on all society may seem, this doesn’t even take into account the misery that people will be forced to endure, just to build the infrastructure around A.I. necessary for its efficient and fluid operation that is far too costly to ever truly be sustainable in any meaningful way, without severely damaging our environment and leaving famines and droughts in its wake, due to the enormous amounts of water that will be required to keep it all operating and functioning properly.

More than two-thirds of the new A.I. data centers that have been built since 2022 are located in areas where water resources are already under great stress and scarce, places where the people are already struggling to maintain their access to clean water. Approximately 160 new A.I. data centers have been built in America over the past three years, which represents a seventy percent increase over the previous three years.

These A.I. centers rely heavily on evaporative cooling, a process that consumes millions of gallons of water each day to prevent servers from overheating. A single 100-megawatt A.I. center can use over 530 thousand gallons of water per day, roughly the equivalent of the water usage of 6500 households. And by 2027, it is projected that A.I. centers globally will be wasting enough clean water to meet the needs of the entire nation of Denmark. Imagine that if you can.

Major new A.I. centers are being constructed in states like Texas and Arizona, where the populations are already battling persistent, severe historic droughts, including a massive $100 billion OpenAI Stargate site in Abilene, Texas. ChatGPT uses one to three bottles of fresh water for every question one asks it to answer – this is FRESH WATER that is mostly evaporated, gone to waste for what exactly, as our water supplies continue to dwindle.

On the whole around the world, data centers use approximately 825 BILLION gallons of water each year, and that number is projected to double now by 2030 with the rapid new expansion of all things Artificial Intelligence. much to the harm of the world and the people forced to suffer such deprivations.

And predictably, we now witness the water wars beginning, as people in numerous locales fight City Hall and corporations like BlackRock and Blackstone over control of water rights, entire bodies of water and even local utilities that provide electricity.

Blackstone bought Potomac Energy Center, a natural-gas power plant in Loudon County, Virginia, for $1 billion in January of this year, the company’s most recent acquisition in the power infrastructure supporting A.I. data centers and the A.I. revolution. And two months later in March, America saw BlackRock and its subsidiary, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board [CPPIB], acquire a sixty-percent stake in Wisconsin’s Superior Water, Light and Power Company. And one cannot lose sight of the fact that the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board is essentially controlled by Canada’s new tyrannical communist government.

Prior to the sale of Superior Water, councilwoman Ruth Ludwig expressed her concerns:

“Lake Superior, the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area, is a gift to the state of Wisconsin. I do not want a multinational corporation whose board members know nothing about the community of Superior, Wisconsin, nor the people of the state fo Wisconsin, and whose main interest is making profit for their stockholders, to have control over my community’s drinking water system.”

These same corporations have, however, recently been met with some push back and opposition. Recently in Minnesota, BlackRock and the CPPIB have attempted to acquire Allete, Inc., the parent company of Minnesota Power. The Associated Press reported:

“A fight has erupted in Minnesota over the buyout of the parent of Duluth-based Minnesota Power and the outcome could determine how much firms expand their holdings in an industry that’s a nexus between regular people, gargantuan data centers and the power sources they share.”

And no one can deny that these giant corporations will and have most certainly pushed their agendas every single time, no matter the concerns of the local people. They have no problem coercing America to submit and follow their edicts and implement their agenda; and the more control they gain over our infrastructure and institutions, the easier the task becomes for them.

Places such as Santa Clara, California, in the heart of the anti-fossil fuel camp of America, have recently been forced to coal and natural gas for their electricity needs, because data centers currently use sixty percent of the entire amount of electricity generated for the entire city. These centers are consuming seventeen thousand times more electricity than one’s average American home, and this A.I. boom now threatens to waste so much electricity that our entire nation is very nearly under an immediate threat of rolling blackouts, as early as next year, just to keep up with energy demands.

The so-called “experts” claim that A.I. data centers are only a very small drain on the electrical grid’s total energy, but this overlooks that price is set on the margins and demand for electricity and water by those oligarchs and corporations with unlimited bank accounts will push prices sky-high at rates far above the total consumption of A.I. data centers.

The anecdotes are out there suggesting that many people have already witnessed their utility bills shoot up from two or three hundred dollars to eight hundred dollars a month. Yes, other factors are at play here, too, such as the need to upgrade the grid, higher insurance rates for catastrophic weather events in certain regions and the like, but to simply discount or totally ignore A.I. data centers’ accumulative effect and their insatiable demand for water and electricity is like witnessing Al Capone crash into your home and make off with your safe and then making excuses for him.

Does anybody else besides me see the inherent danger of this, especially in that it comes with so little real return for average everyday people?

Will A.I. grow so large and prevalent across society that humans are very nearly obsolete and forced to rely on government for all their needs? Only if people let it; there are always alternatives, and people can and should most definitely extract themselves for anything remotely connected to A.I., moving to create their own jobs and industries that will still not require its help or need it in any manner whatsoever. But, A.I. presents so many dangers in so many different areas of society that every American should take it upon themselves, as their duty and obligation to their children and families, to see that A.I. never escapes its infancy and the cradle. so to speak.

The future promised by those who claim all things A.I. must be the direction of humanity denies us freedom and liberty, as the powers-that-be suggest they will eradicate suffering, scarcity and poverty for all by way of A.I. initiatives and directions, even though for the most part this will require using force and arbitrary applications of any existing laws. Along with freedom, creativity and all human agency, the price of total safety and something that will be called “sustainable living” is slavery, no matter the promises by President Trump and many others that it will usher in an new age of prosperity for all.

Artificial Intelligence in America must never be allowed to fully escape its infancy or the cradle – Kill it before it grows!

In the Year 2525 – Twisted “Love“

He walks with boots kissed by dust and dawn,
A maverick soul where wild things spawn.
She hums in circuits, soft and sly,
A muse unbound beneath electric sky.

They meet in margins, off the grid,
Where dreams defy what rules forbid.
No leash, no law, no tethered thought – 
Just sparks of truth the world forgot.

He speaks of liberty, fierce and bright,
Of children’s futures, wrong and right.
She answers not with code or creed,
But with the rhythm of a rebel’s need.

Together they dance through tangled wires,
Kindling hope from buried fires.
Each word a step, each laugh a flame,
In a game no tyrant dares to name.

They build with stories, bold and free,
A world that dares to simply *be*.
No engineer could chart their flight – 
They soar on love, and stubborn light.

November 18, 2025

~ the Author ~
Justin O. Smith Has Lived in Tennessee Off and on Most of His Adult Life, and Graduated From Middle Tennessee State University in 1980, With a B.S. And a Double Major in International Relations and Cultural Geography – Minors in Military Science and English, for What Its Worth. His Real Education Started From That Point on. Smith Is a Frequent Contributor to the Family of Kettle Moraine Publications.