… In the electrified future they are building for you, the silence is total.
Your heat pump dies and the house instantly begins losing the fight against the cold. Your induction stove becomes a sleek black brick on the counter. Your electric vehicle is locked in the garage at 12%—a two-ton paperweight. Your internet is dead, severing your connection to the Cloud, your bank, your job, your maps, your “support.” If you went fully ‘smart,’ you’ll learn real fast whether you kept the physical key…or whether your front door is now just another subscription endpoint that needs permission to work.
As mentioned in the article, no electricity, no power for the gas furnace. Silence, no heat. Get the blankets and candles as we always have.
If you must have the internet without fail for your job, get one of the smaller portable lithium batteries. You don’t need a whole house battery and solar though it would be nice.
Many of us have traditional electric stoves and we keep emergency non-cook food and a non electric can opener around. Easy.
I happen to also have a camping stove, cheap insurance, though in all my 25 years in Colorado I’ve never really needed it. If you are really paranoid get a rocket stove.
And I forgot to add that he ( the Brit) he also had a elevator installed in his 3 story ocean view SMART home ..
and we both know that the elevator want work during (maybe for a little bit until the lights go out) or after a hurricane 🌀 due to No power…
and there are a lot of other 3 story houses on the island that also have elevator ..
we do know one couple who added a whole house generator to their one story house and they just sold it to mighty fine folks from Montana who were tired of the winters in Montana. These folks are sensible.
You’re absolutely correct.. folks don’t have a lick of sense anymore and they aren’t blessed with or taught common sense or critical thinking skills… but one day soon they just might be have to wake up…
who knows what’s in store for the future and our grid that is overwhelmed with way too many Data Centers.
Well said. And I agree… and here’s a good one for you.. our neighbor and his son are electricians .. and they stay very busy here on the island with the new houses being built.. and folks buying older homes .. that need to be gutted and renovated to their liking..
anyway.. our neighbor (he’s a very funny guy with a great sense of humor) he was working on new project.. a 3 story house that has a view of the ocean and the owner wanted a SMART home .. everything SMART…
and he was from England and he has never lived in Florida before… and one day the owner was there to check out his new SMART home and he had his iPhone linked up to the house and front door ..
and as our neighbor told us.. the owner was so giddy and excited about the house … he was opening up the front door and locking via his iPhone .. you get the picture..
and Kenny ..the electrician …was watching him and Kenny asked him a question … he said have you ever lived in Florida before .. and the old chap said No!!! lol 😂
And Kenny just shook his head and walked away… mumbling underneath his breath .. just wait until the first hurricane hits and the power goes out and you’re locked in your not so SMART house. lol 😂
and the Brit didn’t even add a whole house generator to his new SMART home… do you remember when people were fussing because they couldn’t open their SMART Samsung refrigerator during a storm.. ☔️
Oh well.
oh well as my farmer likes to remind me you can’t dispense wisdom to folks who don’t want to listen.. and sadly there are a lot of these folks who walk amongst us. 😩
I am quite frankly amazed at your level of research AND your careful analysis and conclusions. I have lived off grid, was born in Cuba which obtained some of the “modern conveniences” before the USA and developed systems (educational, healthcare, literacy level) which outdo by a HUGE amount US levels… and this despite 60+ years of a murderous economic embargo/blockade…
When I moved to California from Hudson County, New Jersey, the Poconos, Pennsylvania and earlier, Queens, New York, I was shocked, among other things, by the price of gasoline… The higher price of almost everything even though you farm it here and drill and so much else… And despite the fact that my house here in Alameda County has had solar panels forever, our utility bills have wiped out whatever savings I ever had. And when I tried to go off grid I was told that was a crime for which I could be prosecuted…
I practiced law in New Jersey for almost thirty years… As much as there were seriously corrupt judges and prosecutors, the level of corruption at EVERY level in California is quite possibly the worst I have ever experienced.
As is happening with those of us who expose genocide and corruption, telling the truth is not only a revolutionary act but one that may get you jailed or killed…
Bravo for your work.
PS I would have added Wells Fargo, which has long been one of the MOST corrupt banking institutions anywhere in the world.
Ethan presents an analysis that goes over my head on first read, causing me to read again! I definitely understood most of it, but I’m thinking how do I avoid the redundancy or single selected usage problem. I found we did best with using gas heat,cooking, and electric for apps. Which we repair, rather than replace because quality was better from 25 years ago…and we’re cheap! The bills and surcharges and fees are inexplicable to me…I will never have a home reliant on technology…I still prefer my landline to cell. Yup, I’m not tech savvy and like to control everything (not everyone) in my life…never will I trust a car to drive me without a licensed operator. We know the corruption exists with utilities, but at their mercy, and politicians legislating tax credits,rebates,public corporations credits, authorities unchecked power, and a myriad of issues clouding the future of energy.
Please give examples of, “corruption at every level” because my experience is different. What I’ve found is an inflexible and relentless bureaucracy which has rules for everything, and enforces them mindlessly. Honest but stifling. Trying to turn us into drones. So I’m interested in your experiences, Which sound very different. How do you define “corruption”? What are some examples?
A lot of times I feel it’s not necessarily corruption, but the administrative state following all their rules, and trying to make you liable for whatever charge they concocted.
Learning law, one realizes that YOU are NOT THE NAME. The name is property of the state. Very large rabbit hole.
As for utility bills, I’ve been learning about discharging public debt —- which is fascinating. See http://spcuniversity.com
I work in Northern Virginia and my girlfriend lives there as does her elderly parents, so this topic is incredibly important to me and I’ve researched it extensively.
Great work on the financial extraction mechanism. I've been documenting the other half: where this converges and whobenefits.
Northern Virginia isn't just "Data Center Alley"—it's the control point. 70% of global internet traffic. Intelligence contracts worth tens of billions to the same companies. 130+ former intel personnel at Google alone. BlackRock's $100 billion AI Infrastructure Partnership. A governor who was CIA (2006-2014). And the DOE projecting 430+ hours of annual outages there by 2030.
The CapEx/OpEx incentive structure is the mechanism. Virginia is where the mechanism, the intelligence apparatus, and the financial extraction all meet.
I've calculated the mortality implications using the government's own data:
Your piece shows how they harvest the grid. Mine shows what they're building with the proceeds.
Concise Summary of the Virginia Convergence: Key Agencies, Institutions, Investments, and Contracts
Northern Virginia has become the global hub for data infrastructure due to a convergence of intelligence agencies, technology companies, financial institutions, and political structures. This creates aligned incentives for expansion, data access, and centralization—driven by massive contracts, investments, and personnel overlaps—without requiring coordinated intent.
Major Investments (Virginia-Focused)
* AWS: $63 billion invested since 2011; additional $35 billion planned through 2040.
* AIP Consortium (BlackRock/Microsoft/NVIDIA/xAI): $100 billion mobilization target announced 2024–2025.
* First major deal: $40 billion acquisition of Aligned Data Centers (October 2025).
* BlackRock Tokenization Initiatives: BUIDL fund (~$2.8 billion across blockchains); long-term goal of tokenizing “all assets” into programmable digital wallets.
*
Key Intelligence Contracts (Awarded to Tech Companies)
* CIA Commercial Cloud Enterprise (C2E): Multi-award “tens of billions” over 15 years (2020) → AWS, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, IBM.
* CIA C2S (original 2013): $600 million exclusive → AWS (kickstarted exclusive cloud relationship).
How Incentives Intersect Through These Specifics
* Revenue & Expansion Loop: Intelligence agencies award massive contracts (e.g., C2E, WildandStormy) to the same companies building Virginia data centers → guarantees billions for AWS/Microsoft/Google → funds further investment (e.g., AWS’s $35B planned).
* Personnel & Trust Pipeline: Ex-CIA/NSA/FBI/Unit 8200 hires into tech “Trust and Safety” and policy roles → facilitates contract wins and regulatory cooperation.
* Financial Overlay: BlackRock/AIP invests in the same infrastructure (e.g., $40B Aligned deal) → locks in returns while advancing tokenization on intelligence-aligned platforms.
* Political Enablement: Virginia approvals (influenced by tax/jobs and governor’s intelligence background) → permit rapid build-out despite grid risks (DOE projects 430+ annual outage hours by 2030).
This structure routes ~70% of global internet traffic through one jurisdiction, blending commercial, intelligence, and financial control—creating systemic pressure toward centralization, surveillance capability, and programmable asset oversight, driven purely by these aligned incentives.
In your grandparents’ world, a blackout was an inconvenience; in yours, it is a weapon. Once, a home was a resilient little fortress with wood, gas, copper lines and neighbors; now it is a thin electronic shell wired into a single, central choke point that you do not control.
The engineered fragility
You have been sold “Smart” as if it meant safe, efficient, modern.
In reality, it means this:
• One switch, one failure, and your entire life support system dies at once: heat pump, induction stove, EV, internet, payments, even your door lock.
• Every redundant lifeline your grandparents relied on has been systematically removed or demonised: wood stoves, gas cooking, independent wells, physical cash, landlines.
• The new grid is intentionally hyper‑centralised and hyper‑interconnected, so that any outage is no longer local inconvenience but instant mass disablement, at scale.
This is not a bug.
Dependence is the design.
The bailout machine behind your bill
You were told your soaring power bill was the “price of saving the planet.”
Look again.
• Every layer of “green transition” and “smart infrastructure” is funded by debt that you repay through mandatory energy bills and hidden charges.
• When financial bets behind the grid and renewables wobble, you don’t get a say; you just get another “necessary” price hike to quietly bail out the same banks and corporates that engineered the risk.
• The culture war noise keeps you fighting Left vs Right while both sides sign off on the same vertically-integrated extraction system: you pay, they own, they control.
Your electricity bill is not merely “for energy.”
It is tribute to a financial cartel, laundered through a utility meter.
From citizens to switch‑controlled livestock
In the electrified prison they are building, a blackout is not an accident; it is a management tool.
• Smart meters and smart appliances are remote‑controllable valves on your ability to heat, move, work, and eat.
• A “temporary grid emergency” becomes the perfect pretext to selectively disconnect millions, to enforce compliance, punish dissent, or simply trim “excess” demand – and people.
• When medicine, food logistics, education, communications and policing are all fully dependent on one fragile digital‑electric spine, throwing that spine into spasm means instant chaos by design, not by surprise.
This is how you turn a population into a herd:
no fence posts, just algorithms and kill switches.
The quiet depopulation logic
Strip away the slogans and the math is cold.
• Remove resilience (wood, gas, local food, cash, community skills), then force everyone onto a single, brittle grid controlled by corporate‑state partners.
• Tie survival to continuous access to electricity, digital money, and network permission; then build systems able to deny that access to entire regions at once.
• Call it “sustainability,” but structure it so that any prolonged outage—whether framed as cyber attack, climate event, or “technical fault”—will simply kill off those who cannot endure weeks without the grid they were trained to worship.
At that point you no longer need detention camps or bullets.
You only need “an unfortunate systems failure.”
The wake‑up call
If you “get it,” you can no longer pretend this is just about weather or “carbon”.
It is about constructing a vertically-controlled energy and data cage where your continued existence is a line item in someone else’s risk model.
So:
• Stop applauding every new “smart” dependency as progress.
• Start rebuilding parallel lifelines: off‑grid heat, food, water, local trade, community knowledge.
• Refuse the narrative that your own basic resilience is dangerous, selfish, or “anti‑science.”
The future they are selling is one blackout away from a cull.
The only real question is whether you will still be fully plugged in when they flip the switch…..or will you be prepared?
Yes, they may be building their own nuclear plants - but you can bet those nuclear plants will be designed to only serve their corporation and there will be an inbuilt “failure rate of continuous supply” to the general public.
While I can't be sure on exactly what they are building, you have the proper mindset. Watch what they build, not what they preach.
While they tell you to 'Electrify Everything' and rely on a fragile grid, look at what they are installing in D.C. (and at the Zuckerberg compound in Hawaii): Massive Redundancy. Backup generators, underground storage, independent water, and hard-lines.
The elite architecture is built for Survival. The public architecture is built for Dependency.
The gap between those two blueprints is the entire War.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Hawaii compound* is reported to include an underground shelter, its own water tank, and its own energy and food supplies, designed for substantial self-sufficiency.
We must pay attention not only to the rhetoric about climate, net zero, or technology, but to the type of infrastructure different groups build for themselves, because that shows who expects resilience and who is being led into dependence.
# The elite architecture, such as Zuckerberg’s and that planned for Silicon Valley is built for Survival! So powerful actors purposely build redundancy, so they can function independently when systems fail.
# The public architecture is built for Dependency. So the masses are encouraged (or pushed) into systems where they cannot meet basic needs without centralised infrastructure.
# The gap between those two blueprints is the entire War! So the real conflict is not just left vs right or climate vs anti‑climate, but between self-reliant, resilient systems and dependent, easily controlled systems.
* Zuckerberg has acquired over 1,400–2,300 acres (roughly 570–930 hectares) on Kauaʻi, making him one of the island’s largest private landowners.
The estate includes two large mansions, guest houses, fitness facilities, recreational areas, and (per permits and reporting) a 5,000 square foot underground shelter with its own energy and food supplies, plus extensive security and privacy measures such as perimeter walls and guards.
Zuckerberg began buying land on Kauaʻi around 2014, initially about 280–700 acres near Kīlauea.
Construction of the current large compound, including the underground shelter, appears to have ramped up over the mid‑2010s, with major building permits and intensive construction activity documented from around 2017 onward and continuing into the 2020s.
He has continued expanding: new land purchases and additional buildings (including more accommodation for family and staff) were reported in 2023 - 2025, bringing total holdings above 2,000 acres and an estimated total value near or above $300 million USD.
Our supposedly Green Community of Kingston, NY just cut down half the trees and spent tens of millions upgrading the natural gas infrastructure and The mayor’s family just happens to own an oil/gas supply company. Plus they installed flock cameras at every intersection to support the surveillance state under the guise of public safety with public funds during an upgrade to LED streetlights. Beware the wolf in sheep’s clothing. Public disservice is the new administrative norm. Attend your local municipal meetings and stay informed. They bank on and leverage your apathy into compliance because silence is assent in the public forum. Capitalism kills. F thegvt
Bill Gates is planning to build a nuclear power plant in the middle of nowhere Wyoming. Data centers to come. Micron in Idaho gets billions of taxpayers dollars to build new chip plants. Military bases and law enforcement agencies have been building their own backup power systems on your dollar for years. I'm a electrical construction worker. I've worked on those jobs. They have massive diesel generators with huge diesel fuel tanks that have signed contracts that guarantee them fuel as a customer first in the event of a grid failure. And it's not done for your safety. It's for your control.
On another subject, this article mentions utilities profits at 8-10%. I own a very small amount of utility stocks. I see only a 3% return where did that other 5% go?
You are spot on! I would also add that the car manufacturers are making sure the cars they build are also tied into the control grid; and they are expensive to maintain due to the multitude of computer components. We own ‘classic’ cars and old school appliances as our protest against this digital capture.
Strong work, Ethan. You’re mapping mechanisms, not mascots, and that matters. The ROE trap, the fragility dividend, the data-center load shock — that’s real anatomy, not culture-war noise.
One note from the ridge you’re walking: insight either points people back to themselves… or slowly pulls them into orbit around the seer. The system doesn’t just feed on electrons and rate base — it feeds on deferred agency.
This piece exposes the trap cleanly. The next danger isn’t getting the economics wrong, it’s accidentally becoming a hub in the same dependency graph you’re describing. Thrones get built quietly, out of clarity, not ego.
As long as the signal keeps pointing away from you and toward refusal, redundancy, and withdrawal — you’re doing necessary work. The moment people start waiting for guidance instead of standing upright, the grid has simply found a new relay.
Still — this essay cuts through illusion. Respect for that. 🐺
The "smart home as life-support pod" metaphor cuts deep. I've been gradually adding automations for convenience, but the single-point failure analysis makes me rethink the whole setup. The ROE mechanism explanation is probably the clearest breakdown I've seen of why utilities profit from decay rather than maintenence. What scares me most isn't the grid fragility itself but how the "flexible load resource" framing turns households into controllable endpoints without any real consent discussion happening publicly.
I was a practicing attorney for close to thirty years. I worked mostly in advocating for people who were disempowered, homeless, accused of crimes they had not committed and frequently convicted because of prosecutorial and judicial misconduct. It didn’t matter that they were not guilty or that there was evidence that had been deliberately withheld. I discovered that for prosecutors, the number of “wins” brought you closer to becoming a judge yourself. And there was little respect by most of the judiciary for “ethics.” Or for female lawyers…. It’s a very long story….
An old friend and mentor when I started practicing asked me whether I had ever noticed that most judges loved to play golf. And told me the reason was that you could easily put a bag of cash next to a judge in the golf course.
… In the electrified future they are building for you, the silence is total.
Your heat pump dies and the house instantly begins losing the fight against the cold. Your induction stove becomes a sleek black brick on the counter. Your electric vehicle is locked in the garage at 12%—a two-ton paperweight. Your internet is dead, severing your connection to the Cloud, your bank, your job, your maps, your “support.” If you went fully ‘smart,’ you’ll learn real fast whether you kept the physical key…or whether your front door is now just another subscription endpoint that needs permission to work.
Damn Good Article !! Wall Street Front Page!
As mentioned in the article, no electricity, no power for the gas furnace. Silence, no heat. Get the blankets and candles as we always have.
If you must have the internet without fail for your job, get one of the smaller portable lithium batteries. You don’t need a whole house battery and solar though it would be nice.
Many of us have traditional electric stoves and we keep emergency non-cook food and a non electric can opener around. Easy.
I happen to also have a camping stove, cheap insurance, though in all my 25 years in Colorado I’ve never really needed it. If you are really paranoid get a rocket stove.
That is really a sad story … loss of common sense!!
Yes!!!
And I forgot to add that he ( the Brit) he also had a elevator installed in his 3 story ocean view SMART home ..
and we both know that the elevator want work during (maybe for a little bit until the lights go out) or after a hurricane 🌀 due to No power…
and there are a lot of other 3 story houses on the island that also have elevator ..
we do know one couple who added a whole house generator to their one story house and they just sold it to mighty fine folks from Montana who were tired of the winters in Montana. These folks are sensible.
You’re absolutely correct.. folks don’t have a lick of sense anymore and they aren’t blessed with or taught common sense or critical thinking skills… but one day soon they just might be have to wake up…
who knows what’s in store for the future and our grid that is overwhelmed with way too many Data Centers.
Well said. And I agree… and here’s a good one for you.. our neighbor and his son are electricians .. and they stay very busy here on the island with the new houses being built.. and folks buying older homes .. that need to be gutted and renovated to their liking..
anyway.. our neighbor (he’s a very funny guy with a great sense of humor) he was working on new project.. a 3 story house that has a view of the ocean and the owner wanted a SMART home .. everything SMART…
and he was from England and he has never lived in Florida before… and one day the owner was there to check out his new SMART home and he had his iPhone linked up to the house and front door ..
and as our neighbor told us.. the owner was so giddy and excited about the house … he was opening up the front door and locking via his iPhone .. you get the picture..
and Kenny ..the electrician …was watching him and Kenny asked him a question … he said have you ever lived in Florida before .. and the old chap said No!!! lol 😂
And Kenny just shook his head and walked away… mumbling underneath his breath .. just wait until the first hurricane hits and the power goes out and you’re locked in your not so SMART house. lol 😂
and the Brit didn’t even add a whole house generator to his new SMART home… do you remember when people were fussing because they couldn’t open their SMART Samsung refrigerator during a storm.. ☔️
Oh well.
oh well as my farmer likes to remind me you can’t dispense wisdom to folks who don’t want to listen.. and sadly there are a lot of these folks who walk amongst us. 😩
I am quite frankly amazed at your level of research AND your careful analysis and conclusions. I have lived off grid, was born in Cuba which obtained some of the “modern conveniences” before the USA and developed systems (educational, healthcare, literacy level) which outdo by a HUGE amount US levels… and this despite 60+ years of a murderous economic embargo/blockade…
When I moved to California from Hudson County, New Jersey, the Poconos, Pennsylvania and earlier, Queens, New York, I was shocked, among other things, by the price of gasoline… The higher price of almost everything even though you farm it here and drill and so much else… And despite the fact that my house here in Alameda County has had solar panels forever, our utility bills have wiped out whatever savings I ever had. And when I tried to go off grid I was told that was a crime for which I could be prosecuted…
I practiced law in New Jersey for almost thirty years… As much as there were seriously corrupt judges and prosecutors, the level of corruption at EVERY level in California is quite possibly the worst I have ever experienced.
As is happening with those of us who expose genocide and corruption, telling the truth is not only a revolutionary act but one that may get you jailed or killed…
Bravo for your work.
PS I would have added Wells Fargo, which has long been one of the MOST corrupt banking institutions anywhere in the world.
Ethan presents an analysis that goes over my head on first read, causing me to read again! I definitely understood most of it, but I’m thinking how do I avoid the redundancy or single selected usage problem. I found we did best with using gas heat,cooking, and electric for apps. Which we repair, rather than replace because quality was better from 25 years ago…and we’re cheap! The bills and surcharges and fees are inexplicable to me…I will never have a home reliant on technology…I still prefer my landline to cell. Yup, I’m not tech savvy and like to control everything (not everyone) in my life…never will I trust a car to drive me without a licensed operator. We know the corruption exists with utilities, but at their mercy, and politicians legislating tax credits,rebates,public corporations credits, authorities unchecked power, and a myriad of issues clouding the future of energy.
Please give examples of, “corruption at every level” because my experience is different. What I’ve found is an inflexible and relentless bureaucracy which has rules for everything, and enforces them mindlessly. Honest but stifling. Trying to turn us into drones. So I’m interested in your experiences, Which sound very different. How do you define “corruption”? What are some examples?
A lot of times I feel it’s not necessarily corruption, but the administrative state following all their rules, and trying to make you liable for whatever charge they concocted.
Learning law, one realizes that YOU are NOT THE NAME. The name is property of the state. Very large rabbit hole.
As for utility bills, I’ve been learning about discharging public debt —- which is fascinating. See http://spcuniversity.com
https://www.leefang.com/p/hawaii-electric-while-failing-to
Are you aware of discharging public debt?
I work in Northern Virginia and my girlfriend lives there as does her elderly parents, so this topic is incredibly important to me and I’ve researched it extensively.
Great work on the financial extraction mechanism. I've been documenting the other half: where this converges and whobenefits.
Northern Virginia isn't just "Data Center Alley"—it's the control point. 70% of global internet traffic. Intelligence contracts worth tens of billions to the same companies. 130+ former intel personnel at Google alone. BlackRock's $100 billion AI Infrastructure Partnership. A governor who was CIA (2006-2014). And the DOE projecting 430+ hours of annual outages there by 2030.
The CapEx/OpEx incentive structure is the mechanism. Virginia is where the mechanism, the intelligence apparatus, and the financial extraction all meet.
I've calculated the mortality implications using the government's own data:
https://open.substack.com/pub/anthonyness/p/emergency-i-am-extremely-concerned?r=4uzajq&utm_medium=ios
And documented how the DOE report follows the tobacco industry's doubt-manufacturing playbook:
https://open.substack.com/pub/anthonyness/p/copycats-how-government-climate-and?r=4uzajq&utm_medium=ios
Your piece shows how they harvest the grid. Mine shows what they're building with the proceeds.
Concise Summary of the Virginia Convergence: Key Agencies, Institutions, Investments, and Contracts
Northern Virginia has become the global hub for data infrastructure due to a convergence of intelligence agencies, technology companies, financial institutions, and political structures. This creates aligned incentives for expansion, data access, and centralization—driven by massive contracts, investments, and personnel overlaps—without requiring coordinated intent.
Major Investments (Virginia-Focused)
* AWS: $63 billion invested since 2011; additional $35 billion planned through 2040.
* Google: $9 billion in AI-ready facilities.
* Microsoft, Meta, Oracle: Multi-billion campus expansions underway.
* AIP Consortium (BlackRock/Microsoft/NVIDIA/xAI): $100 billion mobilization target announced 2024–2025.
* First major deal: $40 billion acquisition of Aligned Data Centers (October 2025).
* BlackRock Tokenization Initiatives: BUIDL fund (~$2.8 billion across blockchains); long-term goal of tokenizing “all assets” into programmable digital wallets.
*
Key Intelligence Contracts (Awarded to Tech Companies)
* CIA Commercial Cloud Enterprise (C2E): Multi-award “tens of billions” over 15 years (2020) → AWS, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, IBM.
* NSA “WildandStormy”: $10 billion (2021–2022 re-award) → AWS.
* DoD Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC): $9 billion split (2022) → AWS, Microsoft, Google, Oracle.
* CIA C2S (original 2013): $600 million exclusive → AWS (kickstarted exclusive cloud relationship).
How Incentives Intersect Through These Specifics
* Revenue & Expansion Loop: Intelligence agencies award massive contracts (e.g., C2E, WildandStormy) to the same companies building Virginia data centers → guarantees billions for AWS/Microsoft/Google → funds further investment (e.g., AWS’s $35B planned).
* Personnel & Trust Pipeline: Ex-CIA/NSA/FBI/Unit 8200 hires into tech “Trust and Safety” and policy roles → facilitates contract wins and regulatory cooperation.
* Financial Overlay: BlackRock/AIP invests in the same infrastructure (e.g., $40B Aligned deal) → locks in returns while advancing tokenization on intelligence-aligned platforms.
* Political Enablement: Virginia approvals (influenced by tax/jobs and governor’s intelligence background) → permit rapid build-out despite grid risks (DOE projects 430+ annual outage hours by 2030).
This structure routes ~70% of global internet traffic through one jurisdiction, blending commercial, intelligence, and financial control—creating systemic pressure toward centralization, surveillance capability, and programmable asset oversight, driven purely by these aligned incentives.
The Vampire Grid:
How “Smart” Power Turns Humanity Into Collateral
In your grandparents’ world, a blackout was an inconvenience; in yours, it is a weapon. Once, a home was a resilient little fortress with wood, gas, copper lines and neighbors; now it is a thin electronic shell wired into a single, central choke point that you do not control.
The engineered fragility
You have been sold “Smart” as if it meant safe, efficient, modern.
In reality, it means this:
• One switch, one failure, and your entire life support system dies at once: heat pump, induction stove, EV, internet, payments, even your door lock.
• Every redundant lifeline your grandparents relied on has been systematically removed or demonised: wood stoves, gas cooking, independent wells, physical cash, landlines.
• The new grid is intentionally hyper‑centralised and hyper‑interconnected, so that any outage is no longer local inconvenience but instant mass disablement, at scale.
This is not a bug.
Dependence is the design.
The bailout machine behind your bill
You were told your soaring power bill was the “price of saving the planet.”
Look again.
• Every layer of “green transition” and “smart infrastructure” is funded by debt that you repay through mandatory energy bills and hidden charges.
• When financial bets behind the grid and renewables wobble, you don’t get a say; you just get another “necessary” price hike to quietly bail out the same banks and corporates that engineered the risk.
• The culture war noise keeps you fighting Left vs Right while both sides sign off on the same vertically-integrated extraction system: you pay, they own, they control.
Your electricity bill is not merely “for energy.”
It is tribute to a financial cartel, laundered through a utility meter.
From citizens to switch‑controlled livestock
In the electrified prison they are building, a blackout is not an accident; it is a management tool.
• Smart meters and smart appliances are remote‑controllable valves on your ability to heat, move, work, and eat.
• A “temporary grid emergency” becomes the perfect pretext to selectively disconnect millions, to enforce compliance, punish dissent, or simply trim “excess” demand – and people.
• When medicine, food logistics, education, communications and policing are all fully dependent on one fragile digital‑electric spine, throwing that spine into spasm means instant chaos by design, not by surprise.
This is how you turn a population into a herd:
no fence posts, just algorithms and kill switches.
The quiet depopulation logic
Strip away the slogans and the math is cold.
• Remove resilience (wood, gas, local food, cash, community skills), then force everyone onto a single, brittle grid controlled by corporate‑state partners.
• Tie survival to continuous access to electricity, digital money, and network permission; then build systems able to deny that access to entire regions at once.
• Call it “sustainability,” but structure it so that any prolonged outage—whether framed as cyber attack, climate event, or “technical fault”—will simply kill off those who cannot endure weeks without the grid they were trained to worship.
At that point you no longer need detention camps or bullets.
You only need “an unfortunate systems failure.”
The wake‑up call
If you “get it,” you can no longer pretend this is just about weather or “carbon”.
It is about constructing a vertically-controlled energy and data cage where your continued existence is a line item in someone else’s risk model.
So:
• Stop applauding every new “smart” dependency as progress.
• Start rebuilding parallel lifelines: off‑grid heat, food, water, local trade, community knowledge.
• Refuse the narrative that your own basic resilience is dangerous, selfish, or “anti‑science.”
The future they are selling is one blackout away from a cull.
The only real question is whether you will still be fully plugged in when they flip the switch…..or will you be prepared?
The data centers can build their own modular nuclear plants. I think Google is…
Yes, they may be building their own nuclear plants - but you can bet those nuclear plants will be designed to only serve their corporation and there will be an inbuilt “failure rate of continuous supply” to the general public.
Is that’s what’s happening under the East Wing of the White House?
While I can't be sure on exactly what they are building, you have the proper mindset. Watch what they build, not what they preach.
While they tell you to 'Electrify Everything' and rely on a fragile grid, look at what they are installing in D.C. (and at the Zuckerberg compound in Hawaii): Massive Redundancy. Backup generators, underground storage, independent water, and hard-lines.
The elite architecture is built for Survival. The public architecture is built for Dependency.
The gap between those two blueprints is the entire War.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Hawaii compound* is reported to include an underground shelter, its own water tank, and its own energy and food supplies, designed for substantial self-sufficiency.
We must pay attention not only to the rhetoric about climate, net zero, or technology, but to the type of infrastructure different groups build for themselves, because that shows who expects resilience and who is being led into dependence.
# The elite architecture, such as Zuckerberg’s and that planned for Silicon Valley is built for Survival! So powerful actors purposely build redundancy, so they can function independently when systems fail.
# The public architecture is built for Dependency. So the masses are encouraged (or pushed) into systems where they cannot meet basic needs without centralised infrastructure.
# The gap between those two blueprints is the entire War! So the real conflict is not just left vs right or climate vs anti‑climate, but between self-reliant, resilient systems and dependent, easily controlled systems.
* Zuckerberg has acquired over 1,400–2,300 acres (roughly 570–930 hectares) on Kauaʻi, making him one of the island’s largest private landowners.
The estate includes two large mansions, guest houses, fitness facilities, recreational areas, and (per permits and reporting) a 5,000 square foot underground shelter with its own energy and food supplies, plus extensive security and privacy measures such as perimeter walls and guards.
Zuckerberg began buying land on Kauaʻi around 2014, initially about 280–700 acres near Kīlauea.
Construction of the current large compound, including the underground shelter, appears to have ramped up over the mid‑2010s, with major building permits and intensive construction activity documented from around 2017 onward and continuing into the 2020s.
He has continued expanding: new land purchases and additional buildings (including more accommodation for family and staff) were reported in 2023 - 2025, bringing total holdings above 2,000 acres and an estimated total value near or above $300 million USD.
I'm sure Ellison of Oracle already did all that on Lanai. Zuck has a real-life playbook.
Our supposedly Green Community of Kingston, NY just cut down half the trees and spent tens of millions upgrading the natural gas infrastructure and The mayor’s family just happens to own an oil/gas supply company. Plus they installed flock cameras at every intersection to support the surveillance state under the guise of public safety with public funds during an upgrade to LED streetlights. Beware the wolf in sheep’s clothing. Public disservice is the new administrative norm. Attend your local municipal meetings and stay informed. They bank on and leverage your apathy into compliance because silence is assent in the public forum. Capitalism kills. F thegvt
Phenomenal Commentary!
This is the truth and everyone will have to face in future. Whole world is behind it making everything Electrical.
Bill Gates is planning to build a nuclear power plant in the middle of nowhere Wyoming. Data centers to come. Micron in Idaho gets billions of taxpayers dollars to build new chip plants. Military bases and law enforcement agencies have been building their own backup power systems on your dollar for years. I'm a electrical construction worker. I've worked on those jobs. They have massive diesel generators with huge diesel fuel tanks that have signed contracts that guarantee them fuel as a customer first in the event of a grid failure. And it's not done for your safety. It's for your control.
On another subject, this article mentions utilities profits at 8-10%. I own a very small amount of utility stocks. I see only a 3% return where did that other 5% go?
You are spot on! I would also add that the car manufacturers are making sure the cars they build are also tied into the control grid; and they are expensive to maintain due to the multitude of computer components. We own ‘classic’ cars and old school appliances as our protest against this digital capture.
Strong work, Ethan. You’re mapping mechanisms, not mascots, and that matters. The ROE trap, the fragility dividend, the data-center load shock — that’s real anatomy, not culture-war noise.
One note from the ridge you’re walking: insight either points people back to themselves… or slowly pulls them into orbit around the seer. The system doesn’t just feed on electrons and rate base — it feeds on deferred agency.
This piece exposes the trap cleanly. The next danger isn’t getting the economics wrong, it’s accidentally becoming a hub in the same dependency graph you’re describing. Thrones get built quietly, out of clarity, not ego.
As long as the signal keeps pointing away from you and toward refusal, redundancy, and withdrawal — you’re doing necessary work. The moment people start waiting for guidance instead of standing upright, the grid has simply found a new relay.
Still — this essay cuts through illusion. Respect for that. 🐺
For those who have read John Perkins' "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" this is the American foreign policy model used for decades.
1. Overthrow government of targeted country.
2. Install friendly (corrupt) government.
3. Send foreign aid in the form of debt financing for unnecessary expensive projects done by favoured companies.
4. Siphon money out of country forever through infinite debt repayments.
5. Rinse & repeat.
I guess they ran out of 3rd World countries & aimed the Economic Hitman treatment back at home.
The "smart home as life-support pod" metaphor cuts deep. I've been gradually adding automations for convenience, but the single-point failure analysis makes me rethink the whole setup. The ROE mechanism explanation is probably the clearest breakdown I've seen of why utilities profit from decay rather than maintenence. What scares me most isn't the grid fragility itself but how the "flexible load resource" framing turns households into controllable endpoints without any real consent discussion happening publicly.
I was a practicing attorney for close to thirty years. I worked mostly in advocating for people who were disempowered, homeless, accused of crimes they had not committed and frequently convicted because of prosecutorial and judicial misconduct. It didn’t matter that they were not guilty or that there was evidence that had been deliberately withheld. I discovered that for prosecutors, the number of “wins” brought you closer to becoming a judge yourself. And there was little respect by most of the judiciary for “ethics.” Or for female lawyers…. It’s a very long story….
An old friend and mentor when I started practicing asked me whether I had ever noticed that most judges loved to play golf. And told me the reason was that you could easily put a bag of cash next to a judge in the golf course.
Anyone here yet learn how to discharge public debt? A solution seems available. Http://spcuniversity.com
If the books get unbearable this is a viable solution it seems to me.