The pro-datacenter pushers say we’re “in a race with China.” The United States already has 13 times as many listed data centers as they do — 4,767 to 376. China has four times our population. On a per-person basis that is about 50 times as many sites. We're so far ahead we can't even see China in the rearview mirror. And still they want more. What is the reality of the situation? They need these data centers to process all the data coming in from the surveillance state/digital prison they are setting up all around us. Flock cameras everywhere, drones 24/7, gait analysis, facial recognition, social media monitoring, digital id processing, pre-crime calculation crunching, and much, much more. This is about control and power, and they want us to pay for the infrastructure that will enslave us.