In the Terminator saga, humanity's greatest threat wasn't the
machines alone -- it was the human collaborators who sided with SKYNET.
They were the ones who smoothed the path for machine domination,
believing they were building a better future while actually forging
humanity's shackles. Today, those collaborators have a new uniform.
They're not fictional characters in a dystopian film; they're the
influencers, politicians, and pundits shilling for hyperscaler AI data
centers as an unqualified good.
I see these traitors every day. They are the ones who look at the
data center backlash and call it backward thinking, ignoring the very
real costs to communities, resources, and human autonomy. They are the
ones pushing for these sprawling server farms while dismissing the
public's concerns as the whining of Luddites. They are the human face of
a machine-led coup, eagerly trading the future of our species for a
seat at the table of the new techno-oligarchs...<<<Read More>>>...
