Data center developers want to scare you.
Don’t let them scare you.
Data center developers want to buy you.
Don’t let them buy you.
Rather than roll over, artificial intelligence (AI) super factory opponents will intensify our fight against any and all ruthless terrible tech magnets who expect to turn hallowed land and generations of sacred family history into a 21st Century environmental and cultural wasteland.
After suffering through a deadly historic past of robber coal and railroad barons, a good citizen militia in Archbald, a Lackawanna Valley town of about 7,000 between two mountain ranges, has already challenged the high-and-mighty data center developers who take Archbald lives for granted.
Building community defiance and squaring off with our enemies who support data centers is the only way to stop AI goons, taking the fight to every elected and appointed government official who helps deceive constituents about AI danger. Pumping up our rebellion means boycotting small and large business owners who support data centers, shunning neighbors who sell out and calling out timid local media that are not nearly aggressive enough to truly help stop data center development.
Anyone greedy, fearful or ignorant enough to bow down to billionaire AI oligarchs and their cunning servants is, indeed, our enemy as their ilk tries to control our lives, destroy our land and kill jobs for today’s workers as well as for future generations.
If developers succeed, tormenting noise and infrasound vibrations will replace natural neighborhood peace. Glaring light pollution will destroy the twinkling stars of a spacious sky. Toxic carbon-emitting truck and heavy equipment traffic, jackhammering road gangs and construction worker carpetbaggers will kill habitat, murdering deer, rabbits, birds and other local wildlife populations. Your electric and water bills will also likely increase as your property values plummet.
From behind the gates of pampered, privileged wealth, these moneyed marauders consider Archbald dispensable, mocking descendants of hardworking immigrants as peasant coal crackers and laughing at the hard-earned comforts of modest, meaningful lives.
Manipulative and deceptive data center advocates smile with ready answers scripted by lawyers, lobbyists and possibly even the AI robots they have themselves come to imitate. Corporate clones, they’re immune to human empathy for our basic quality of life. Profit drives their push to disrespect traditional values that make us who and what we are.
Most elected and appointed government officials have already rolled over for their AI data center masters. But Democratic State Sen. Katie Muth and Republican State Sen. Rosemary Brown who actually represents Archbald co-sponsored legislation for a three year statewide moratorium on hyperscale data centers.
For whatever the reason, though, nobody in the state legislature has actually introduced this crucial legislation. Other than Lackawanna County Commissioner Bill Gaughan, not one other Northeastern Pennsylvania elected official has shared the courage of our anti-data center convictions and publicly supported the moratorium.
A moratorium pause is only the beginning.
Crushing monster data centers in Archbald and elsewhere remains our goal.
Our power grows each day merciless data center developers mock our heritage and disrespect our ancestors’ legacy. Our battle plan rejects compromise, regulation or negotiation. Our law is the law of our land. Diplomacy be damned.
Although Republican officeholders long ago succumbed to the seduction of predatory capitalism and corporate control, Northeastern Pennsylvania Democrats remain a significant impediment to sound AI data center public policy.
Lackawanna County Commissioner Tom Welby, Pennsylvania State Rep. Kyle Mullins, State Rep. Bridget Kosierowski, State Rep. Kyle Donahue, Pennsylvania State Senator Marty Flynn and Scranton Mayor and 8th District Congressional candidate Paige Cognetti are all guilty of felony bullshit, all unwilling to side with people who oppose data centers. Not one of these unexceptional state and local officials is willing to oppose the massive high-tech industrial complexes that will irreparably hurt countless vulnerable people who pay their salaries. Many of these big-business bootlickers have already agreed to give away tax breaks and other taxpayer-financed benefits you don’t and won’t receive.
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro leads this political rat pack. Leading them through a sewer of broken promises, he preens as a poster boy for the AI company man in modern American politics. Shapiro has already cut deals with AI data center executives who in return will help his re-election and self-absorbed, ego-driven fever dream of winning the 2028 Democratic nomination for president of the United States.
In the spirit of America’s long ago revolution, data center opponents will continue to do everything in our power to embarrass and defeat political opportunists at the polls. We will refuse to vote for any Democrat, Republican or third party candidate who doesn’t stand with us. We will write in candidates who spit in the face of fear and are not part of the AI political inventory.
You want a class war?
We’ll give you a class war.
Forget shaking hands.
We’ve already come out fighting.
