Take a good look at this map.
According to the figures shown, more than 3,000 new data centers are planned or already under construction around the world. Together, they represent an announced power demand of around 190 gigawatts, consuming up to 1,500 terawatt hours of electricity per year.
To put that into perspective, that is roughly the equivalent of five United Kingdoms worth of electricity consumption.
The same projections estimate water consumption in excess of 15 billion litres per year.
For decades we have been told that humanity must dramatically reduce its energy consumption. We were told that the planet could not sustain economic growth. We were told that we must accept carbon taxes, restrictions, smart meters, energy rationing, expensive green policies and a lower standard of living in order to save the Earth.
We were told that there were limits to growth. The infamous Club of Rome built an entire worldview around the idea that population, industrial output, resource consumption and economic development had to be constrained because the planet simply could not cope.
Yet suddenly, when the objective is building the infrastructure required for artificial intelligence, biometric surveillance, digital identity systems, central bank digital currencies, predictive behavioural modelling and an increasingly automated technocratic society, those limits seem to have vanished.
Apparently there are no limits to growth when the growth serves the construction of the digital grid itself.
Suddenly nobody is asking whether the planet can sustain thousands of power hungry data centers.
Nobody is suggesting AI training should be restricted to reduce carbon emissions.
Nobody is demanding that these projects be halted because of their enormous water consumption.
Nobody is gluing themselves to roads to stop the construction.
In fact, governments are racing to approve them. Utilities are rushing to expand generation capacity, nuclear power is back on the table and coal plants that were supposedly destined for closure are being reconsidered.
It is almost as if energy was never the problem.
It is almost as if carbon emissions were never the real concern.
It is almost as if the climate narrative was primarily about controlling human behaviour, restricting economic activity, redirecting investment flows and transforming entire industries under a centrally managed agenda.
Now that AI has become the next strategic priority, the mask has slipped.
The same institutions that spent years lecturing ordinary people about their carbon footprint are preparing to consume nation sized quantities of electricity to build a planetary scale digital infrastructure.
And they expect nobody to notice the contradiction.
(Source of map: Natural News)
The biggest problem for Israel is not Iran's nuclear bomb, even if it had one it would never use it.
The problem for Israel is that Iran is becoming more and more powerful, especially militarily.
That's why Netanyahu won't accept any agreement, negotiations, or anything else until he sees Iran economically destroyed, with his puppet regime installed, just like Syria.
That's why there's all this spitting and whining these days in Israel, the US refuses to fight for Israel any longer at its own expense.
Iran will now receive a massive financial injection, cooperation with US allies, and thus drastically increase its military power, which has proven to be drastically powerful despite some weaknesses.
In 5-10 years from now, Iran could reach the military power of Russia, if they invest a lot in the aviation.
Israel's downfall began the day they killed Ayatollah Khamenei, united Iran, and ruined the possibility of regime change.
@Megatron_ron
🇸🇪 Sweden passes 'good behaviour' law to kick out misbehaving immigrants
Sweden's parliament passed a law on Monday allowing authorities to revoke immigrants' residency permits based on bad behaviour, such as having unpaid debts, doing undeclared work or links to extremist organisations.
The law, which covers pending permits but also retroactively already granted permits, is part of a wider tightening of immigration rules by the right-wing government and its support party, the nationalist Sweden Democrats, ahead of a parliamentary election in September.
The law has been criticised by the opposition and human rights advocacy groups as arbitrary because decisions would be taken on behaviour that has not been deemed criminal.
The law does not specify what types of behaviours are deemed unacceptable but the government has mentioned unpaid debts, not paying taxes, criminality and links to extremist organisations. The Migration Agency is tasked ...