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

@ArishMell

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

Computers cannot solve problems. They facilitate decision making. Instead of 535 politicians in Congress plus a President in the White House squabbling over what to do, they are all forced to adopt a disciplined approach to problem solving. They are forced to face the facts: the consequences of the decisions they make BEFORE they make them. For example, shall we go to war with Iran? The algorithm, based on the state of the nation, will spit out the explicit answer in print spelling out the the consequences. It cuts out the bullshit and the guesswork. It prevents the politicians from doing harm to the people.

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.

You are asking a fundamental question. Running a nation is similar to running your own life for you are one digit in a population of 350 million (US) or 90 million (UK). You need food, clothing, shelter, transportation. These are basic needs. You, namely, the US Government, invite bids from companies to develop a solution package, select the best one, and implement it.

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.

Computers are tools, and we use them to help manage the running of the country. This remove all the politics and bullshit and most of all prevent idiots from making bad decisions.

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.

The government (i.e. politicians) can form all the policies it wants. The box of electronics will identify all policies that don't work and lay out the facts why they won't work.