America's national development at the expense of the people.

Is America a nation not for the people? Or is it a corporate entity called the USA enslaving its human shareholders?

Archbald, a northeastern Pennsylvania town of 7,000 people tucked in a valley near the Pocono Mountains. It sits beneath a major interstate power line, a hub for data storage. It is the latest frontier in the nation’s increasingly chaotic battles over data centers.

Developers plan to build six of the sprawling campuses in Archbald, to power the demand for artificial intelligence, eventually covering about 14 percent of the town’s land. Those campuses would include 51 data warehouses — each about the size of a Walmart Supercenter — including seven buildings encompassing more than a million square feet.

Justapoxed against the current war with Iran, you get a better picture of what is happening to you.

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sree251 · 41-45, M

@Ontheroad

America, or maybe better stated, the systems that built America are broken. The people matter little and it isn't getting any better.

You have put the situation neatly in a nutshell. The way I see it is this. The systems that built America in 1776 are outdated. And yet, the Brits are doing the same thing today: politicians arguing in Parliament the way as they did in 1265. It's as ludicrous and comical as the deliberations in the US Congress I watch on satellite TV.

Today's Britain and America are societies of 70 and 350 million citizens respectively. Processing needs of those large numbers of people need supercomputers for decision making. There were no cars in either 1265 or 1776 for crying out loud.

We took a system based on honor and ethics and over time made it a system that that rewards greed, varice and power.... in business and in the government.

Trump's America is not George Washington's America. However, the human animal has not change. I doubt very much that Washington was less immoral than Trump. The nation has been waging war from day one. The trail of tears began in 1776 till today.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@sree251 Why do you imagine vast computers will solve the two nation's respective internal problems?

Who would build, own and programme them? Human beings, obviously, but which ones? The government or commercial companies like the giant US and Chinese ones already monopolising over the Internet? The latter are small groups of individuals not accountable to anyone but themselves and their publicly-unknown shareholders. Many of their shareholders may well not even be nationals of the country concerned, and not have that country's interests at heart.

No humanly-built system can ever be 100% perfect or 100% efficient, including both "supercomputers" and democratic Parliaments; but at least parliaments are of real people drawn from across the country and we (the electorate) know who they are, and can select or reject them.

Also, the government forms policy. The "processing needs" - the administration of the policies - may or may not be helped by computers but the box of electronics is only the tool for the administration.

I'm not sure comparing 2026 with 1776 or 1265 very useful.

I don't know if the USA's Constitution has been modified much since then in 250 years despite an assortment of Amendments showing it can be amended.

Britain's has changed considerably over its intervening 761 years; largely in improving separations, rights and responsibilities.

(Some people think the UK, which was not the UK in the 13C anyway, has no constitution, but that is incorrect. I think the misunderstanding comes from seeing the US Constitutution being a single document and believing that defines a constitution.)

sree251 · 41-45, M

@ArishMell

Why do you imagine vast computers will solve the two nation's respective internal problems?

Thank you for a well thought out response. I will revert after careful study of it.