Systems Process Improvement + Organizational Change Management (Continual Improvement) Process/Systems/.org Analyst + Designer; Change Management; Lorax
Rocky Mount, Virginia
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"Welfare Kings"?
Data center subsidies ballooned to insane amounts this year. The data center tax exemptions include $2.5 billion in Georgia and $1.3 billion in Texas for FY2026, and nearly $2 billion in Virginia for FY2025.
A lot of these data center tax exemptions are costing state budgets 10 to 20 times more in revenue than initially projected.
This forgone tax revenue is a textbook example of shameless corporate welfare. These billions of dollars could be funding American schools, housing, healthcare, transit, etc.
Not to mention the fact that data centers draw massive amounts of electricity and water, and the cost of these grid upgrades is blatantly being passed down to households and rate-payers through higher monthly utility bills.
We're getting robbed blind, America.
#1: Get the Corruption (Special Interests and self-interests) out of Public Service Management
Ro Khanna PRESSED ON Hakeem Jeffries For Speaker youtu.be/WiYDH5V6lrI?si=2Pvk… via YouTube
@RepRoKhanna
That would be both foreign and domestic, corporation aggregate and corporations sole (even politicians in the roles).
Corruption's inertia to change should be fixed and then lots of other fixes are absolutely possible...moreso: plausible.
Use Case(s) of Energy Demand v. Emissions Risk(s)
They cannot kill the biosphere fast enough
Old, polluting jet engines are being scavenged to power data centers
AI data centers are burning old jet engines to generate electricity, and the pollution is alarming
greenprophet.com/2026/11/ai-…
When it comes to Energy Policy, I'm =
"We should migrate our Energy Systems paradigm from Max(Grid) in a mostly Emissions way to Max(non-Grid) in a Max(non-emissions) way.
Can datacenters meed energy demand via Grid-Scale clean energy?
I'm not anti-datacenter, but I agree to community criticism(s) of datacenter design(s).
I ponder: How might we improve datacenter design(s) such that they are Value-Add and not unwanted community cost?
The "Grid" Energy paradigm has an increasingly frequent and likely increasingly severe "outage rates" problem caused by emissions-related climate consequences.
I assert: We can improve Household Economics and the Environment and Homeland/National Security by systems migrations from Grid/emissions to Max(non-Grid)/Max(non-emissions)
When did Tucker Carlson break w/ Trump? Wasn't he part of the coalition who re-seated Trump in power?
They talk of "jobs" as if it is currency or something. What kinds of "jobs"? What sector(s)?
Is there anything other than datacenter construction "jobs"?
JUST IN: A jobs report on Friday showed hiring accelerated in October, providing the first major snapshot of the economy since the midterms as the stock market seesaws in response to the election results. abcnews.link/DqDzJ6R
Where there is smoke there is crime...er fire?
Who cares? How telling is it that THIS is what he's focused on?
Shit-poor Management
President Trump signed a proclamation that he said would prevent future changes to the historic Oval Office and Cabinet Room, both of which he has decorated with gold accents during his second term. wapo.st/4inKzAe
The mf-er literally tore down a wing of the White House w/out permission.
Like the USA is HIS real estate project?
Tone-deaf and short-sighted?
But WHY is the National Guard occupying DC?
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has signed off on the National Guard ramping up its presence in the nation's capital in military vehicles and boats as troops deepen their integration with local law enforcement. to.pbs.org/4irUfcV
There is no "shortage" of energy. We simply don't harvest it where we can:
Sewage bacteria generate electricity while destroying antibiotics
Call it a sewage trifecta: a new microbial fuel cell makes power, breaks down hard-to-remove antibiotics, and produces the household chemical hydrogen peroxide
anthropocenemagazine.org/202…
