The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. This is the 4th Amendment to our US Constitution and part of the original Bill of Rights. (Enacted Dec. 15, 1791)
These are interesting times we are living in. I am often impressed with the forethought of our founding fathers. Where they may not have had any concept of the threats we are now having to contemplate regarding Artificial Intelligence and data centers, they very well understood the harm that can happen when the government infringes on our fundamental rights to privacy and protections from unwarranted search and seizure.
I believe that the direction our government and the corporations that so many of our elected officials serve are infringing on those constitutional rights and this must not be allowed to continue. This is the only way that we can guarantee our country remains as a shining example to the world in the words of President Abraham Lincoln, “that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
And with that I have to take the position that the continued progression of Data Centers across America must stop until there can be put in place laws that guarantee our constitutional protections of our right to privacy, freedom from unwarranted search and seizure and also that there is accurate research on the environmental harms and how to mitigate them; and that there are laws passed that the true costs be borne by the corporations and not shifted to taxpayers.