Last Days • Babylon • Self-Reliance
The Data Centers Are Not About AI
What They Are Really Being Built to Do
Across Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and the federal land throughout the West, new data centers are being planned and promoted at a rapid pace. The pitch is always the same. We need them. Artificial intelligence is the future, and these facilities are how we build it. They will create jobs. They will bring money. Investors like Kevin O'Leary have lined up behind projects measured in the tens of thousands of acres. On the surface it sounds like progress, and parts of it are.
But before we welcome them in, we should ask a simple question. What are we actually building, and who benefits when it is finished?
The Visible Cost: Power, Water, and a Drying West
Start with what is visible. These facilities use enormous amounts of power and water, and they want to build them in the driest country on the map. The exact figures vary from one report to the next, and I will not pretend to know which are precise. But the strain is real, and our deserts have little room to spare.
The Great Salt Lake is already at the lowest level on record. The snowpack has been thin for years, and there is no easy plan to bring the water back. For more than a century that lakebed has gathered the runoff of mining and industry, including arsenic, with no outlet to wash it away. As the water recedes, that dust is becoming a genuine health concern for the people who live nearby. Adding facilities that drink water on this scale does not make that problem smaller.
What They Are Really Collecting
Now set the environment aside for a moment. Even if every one of those concerns were solved, the deeper issue would remain. These centers are not really about artificial intelligence. They are about data. Your data. The record of what you buy, where you go, what you search for, and who you talk to. That record is the foundation of the kind of centralized system I write about in my book, and it is being assembled in plain view.
We are already seeing where this leads. Artificial intelligence is changing the workforce quickly. Large law firms are letting go of junior attorneys. Amazon is shifting more of its warehouse work to robots. Grocery chains are building automated centers that fill your order before you arrive. Much of this is genuinely convenient. That is exactly why it spreads so easily.
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The more of life that runs through a single automated system, the more power that system holds over each of us. It does not require a dramatic crackdown. It only requires being switched off.
Here is the part that deserves our attention. The more of life that runs through a single automated system, the more power that system holds over each of us. When your money, your food, your travel, and your work all flow through the same network, that network can also withhold them. It does not require a dramatic crackdown. It only requires being switched off. For anyone who is not reasonably self-reliant, that is a real vulnerability.
What John Saw
John described a day when this kind of control reaches its end point, the moment scripture calls the mark of the beast.
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.Revelation 13:16–17
We are not there yet. But the infrastructure that would make such a thing possible is being poured into the ground right now, quietly, one facility at a time.
Why the Prophets Have Taught Self-Reliance
This is why the prophets have spent two hundred years teaching self-reliance. Provident living. Getting out of debt. Becoming independent of every creature. It has never been about fear. It has always been about freedom. The counsel that can sound old-fashioned in good times turns out to be the very thing that keeps us free in harder ones.
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.Revelation 18:4
Coming out of Babylon is not a retreat into fear. It is a step toward independence. The more self-reliant you and your family become, the less any system can dictate to you.
That is also why I would encourage you to take these data center projects seriously where you live. Show up at the meetings. Ask the hard questions. Oppose the ones that do not serve your community. In many cases you are being asked to fund, with your own resources, a project that benefits a few people while deepening everyone else's dependence. We can see that clearly, and push back on it, without any panic at all.
A Reason for Hope, Not Dread
I write all of this with hope, not dread. There is a way through what is coming, and it is the reason for my book. I am convinced that God has prepared a chosen servant to lead the Political Kingdom of God, a place of real safety built on righteousness and on the willingness to live the law of consecration. Some have decided that Donald Trump is the antichrist. I understand why that idea spreads, but I am persuaded it misreads the scriptures. In my book I make the case that he is the first horseman, God's chosen servant, and that his work is only beginning.
The seven seals have not yet opened. We are living in the time just before they do. That is not a reason to be afraid. It is a reason to prepare, calmly and deliberately, while there is still time to do it well.
My book is here to help you do exactly that, scripture by scripture. You can start reading it today, in both ebook and audiobook form, with more languages on the way.
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