S3E141: Usable Intel About Data Centers

This podcast was sparked by what I think was an excellent article on the true nature and uses of data centers that I found here on Substack. I don’t know who the author actually is, but their understanding of this issue matches my own.This article defines data centers, and talks about the apparent intent behind this rapid, seemingly inexorable rollout we are seeing.The people who back data centers are trying to make it look like our opposition is inspired by “Chinese propaganda”, and even worse, they seem to be putting the framework in place to treat our opposition as terrorism. The “terrorism” label means they can suspend our rights pretty much at will.There is something we can do, as the article points out:Read what your retirement money is actually buying, and pull what you can out of target-date funds that auto-allocate into AI infrastructure indexes.Show up to zoning meetings before the build is announced, not after. The fight is won or lost at the permit stage.File public records requests on water-use agreements and tax-abatement deals while they’re still being negotiated. Once signed, they’re nearly impossible to reverse.Sources and Methods:Data Centers and Immigrantshttps://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/30/ice-immigration-privacy-data-advertising-00939078Data Centers and US Troops:https://www.armytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2026/05/28/us-troops-are-reportedly-being-targeted-using-location-data-pentagon-says/Focus LBK is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.focuslbk.show