Will everyone just bend the knee to the AI tech gods? Not if Gen Z has anything to say about it.

May 20th, 2026

Page, Arizona

“If You Want a Picture of the Future, Imagine a Boot Stamping on a Human Face – Forever”- 1984 by George Orwell

Gen Z is graduating from college, and though they may not recognize the title of this post, a slight variation of the famous sentence in 1984 by George Orwell, they get the meaning. AI and Data Centers have become the perfect metaphor for the big boot.

The generation that was raised with a smart phone since birth is hardly enamored with all the fancy technology and vast knowledge at their fingertips that’s being sold to them by our AI tech gods. Will AI shape the world? Will Gen Z shape the future of Artificial Intelligence?

A ruthless corporate takeover has just been announced by the AI Technocracy and Gen Z isn’t buying it. They’re graduating into a world that’s making their degrees worthless while their resumes are processed by a faceless AI agent operating from the corporate HR department.

Joe Allen, the author of Dark Aeon, was the guest on Steve Bannon’s War Room yesterday. Allen says that autonomous AI agents are flooding all aspects of the human experience. It turns out that all across the country, along with the hype of AI and the data centers, people are simply sick of it.

The cold open of this War Room segment includes video from four different commencement speeches. The graduates start booing when they’re told how AI will be at the center of their bright new future. Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, discovers that his vision of the future isn’t appealing to Gen Z, it’s repulsive.

$10B data center plan in Page area faces pushback from residents

The City Council in Page Arizona recently sold 500 acres to a developer for a 1 GW data center. The council negotiated behind closed doors for a year before notifying the residents of their intentions. Residents are signing a petition that will place a measure on the ballot to override the sale of the property.

As reported by ABC15 Arizona, “Community members are also upset about emails that surfaced in a public records request, which showed the council had communications with Huntley LLC in 2024 before the official land sale in 2025. The city then released a statement on the e-mails, saying, “As with many large-scale economic development proposals, early conversations between the City and a prospective developer included the use of a non-disclosure agreement (NDA).”

Today, the yard sign pictured below can be found in front yards all over the city. Over 1600 residents have signed the petition to stop the development. If nearby Lake Powell becomes a dead pool, there won’t be any water to cool the servers, and the electricity generated at Glen Canyon Dam won’t be available to power the data center. What is the Page City Council thinking?

Below you’ll find an article and a letter to the editor of the Lake Powell Chronicle. These are typical of the articles found in small town newspapers across the country. People are waking up to a vision of the future described by Orwell, and data centers are the physical evidence of the giant boot stamping on the face of humanity, over and over and over.

Beyond the Firewall: The Growing Evidence of Data Center Health Risks

Big questions remain regarding data center (Letter to the Editor from a former Silicon Valley data center expert)

Here’s another take on the proliferation of data centers, wherein developers are buying up houses and local governments are using eminent domain to clear the way for easements for transmission lines. What are they thinking?

It will soon become apparent to corporate America that AI isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Aside from the productivity paradox, any cost savings from job cuts are being eaten up by the increasing use and cost of tokens. Each token requires computing power, hence the demand for hyperscale data centers.

In addition, AI won’t replace the human function of managing the various aspects of the business that actually perform critical functions. From an operational standpoint, humans will still be needed to manage the AI agents and to fix what they break.

What is AI good for? Producing reports, power point presentations, graphics,

war,

and lining the pockets of politicians and billionaire AI Technocrats.