On Tuesday, January 21, 2025 – President Trump’s first full day in office – he surprised the country with the announcement of “Stargate” – a $500 billion project to construct massive data centers in the U.S., many of which will be in Texas. The rationale given was using AI to discover early-stage cancer markers in the blood. Such massive data centers in the wrong hands, however, could be used as a tool of mass surveillance and totalitarian control, similar to the China Social Credit System. We need to press the pause button and get some questions answered before proceeding down this potential path toward a world-wide digital gulag.
