Trump and His Oligarch Buddies Want to Force Us to Invest in Our Own Digital Surveillance Prisons
As I recently wrote, the tech oligarchs and President Trump are running scared as 70% of Americans oppose AI data centers being built in their communities. [1] [2]
Now President Trump, along with the oligarchs (Sam Altman of OpenAI, Elon Musk of xAI, Sundar Pichai of Google, Satya Nadella of Microsoft, and their Anthropic allies) wants to use our tax dollars (and your forced “partnership”) to invest in this dystopian nightmare. They call it a “beautiful thing”: the government taking equity stakes in these AI giants so the American public supposedly shares in the profits. In reality, it is another scheme to ram through unwanted data centers, surveillance infrastructure, and elite-controlled tech while pretending it is for our benefit.
The Idea, Straight From the Oligarch Playbook
Trump is meeting with these AI executives at the White House. The pitch? Companies “donate” or sell small stakes (think 10% like the Intel deal) to the feds. This seeds a so-called Public Wealth Fund. Profits (dividends, capital gains) get “distributed” back to us peasants via some government-managed payouts, Social Security supplements, or whatever Congress and bureaucrats dream up. Altman has been pushing this for months. Trump calls it making Americans “partners” in AI. Socialist Bernie Sanders loves the idea too: government ownership of Big Tech.
This is just the latest hustle to socialize the risks and costs while privatizing the control and early profits for the connected elites.
The Brutal Negatives: Cronyism, Theft, and Digital Prisons on Our Dime
We do not trust the government to handle our investments. Period. Look at Social Security, the ultimate example of government “expertise” stealing from workers and delivering crumbs. For decades, the feds have taken your payroll taxes by force. What if you had invested that money yourself in a simple index fund? Historical comparisons show you would likely have four times more in retirement.
Instead, Social Security’s real return hovers around 2% above inflation for many (pathetic compared to private markets). Politicians raid the “trust fund,” inflate away its value, and now it is heading toward insolvency while they lecture us about “sustainability.” At retirees, I have seen it firsthand: hard working Americans like my husband and me get far less than what prudent personal investing would have delivered. Now they want to do the same thing with AI? No thanks.
We do not want to invest in AI data centers. As I have written in many previous articles, these monstrosities are energy vampires and water hogs destroying communities in Florida and beyond. They spike electric bills for families, strain our grids, drain our groundwater in a state already fighting droughts and growth pressures, and pave over farmland and neighborhoods. Seventy percent of Americans from both sides of the aisle are shouting NO to one in their backyard. Yet Trump’s fast-track permits and this “equity” bribe aim to override us.
This is not a partnership. It is coercion. Your tax dollars (and the inflation tax) prop up these projects. The government becomes both regulator and shareholder, creating massive conflicts: Why would they crack down on abuses when they own a piece? Cronyism will explode. Favored oligarchs get sweetheart deals, regulatory relief, and bailouts if things go south. The rest of us get higher costs, job displacement from AI automation, and a surveillance state where these tools monitor, censor, and control.
Digital prisons: These data centers power exactly the kind of AI that tracks your every move, feeds social credit systems (hello, China model the oligarchs admire), and enables digital IDs and CBDCs (the “digital prison” I have warned about before). Trump and the tech lords promise upside. Reality? Politicians will raid the fund for pet projects, endless bureaucracy, and bailouts. Returns? Delayed, diluted, or diverted (just like Social Security). If AI underperforms or bubbles pop, taxpayers eat the losses while Altman, Musk, and crew keep their billions.
This is not free enterprise. It is state corporatism: government and Big Tech merging power at our expense. We have seen this movie: Solyndra-style waste, politicized investments, and broken promises. This risks becoming another unkept pledge of Trump’s that will burden working families, homeowners, and retirees who just want affordable power, clean water, and freedom from elite schemes.
Americans are waking up. We reject being forced into “partnership” with data surveillance prisons. Tell your representatives: No equity stakes, no fast-tracked data centers, no more government “investment” scams. Protect our communities, our wallets, and our liberty. The culture of death and control stops here.