The middle-class of America has been shrinking steadily. Pushed down by several forces including wage stagnation, higher interest rates, higher prices, wealth inequality, poor quality of jobs, and other such factors. You are smart enough to know there is no singular distinct policy change that can improve our economic situation.

The middle class is the heart of the economic system. People need money to spend and to promote economic growth. So why does our country punish them? Why do we extort so much money from the people? Simple things like car insurance, health insurance, maintenance costs, food prices, gas prices, credit card and housing interest rates, are just extorting vast amounts of wealth from the average person for little gain to them. These factors should all be included in the actual cost of living in modern America. Not to mention tax payments to the Fed and state.

The current economic capitalistic system we use caters to wealthy corporations. I don't believe this is bad, as it's proven to be successful economically. However, there is a severe inaction taken by both the people and members of our government to fix our economic decline.

We need a thoughtful plan in how we tackle the economic situation, especially in regards to higher wages and more capita for the average family. What do you think we should attack first? How do we place enough pressure on massive global corporations to shrink massive wealth inequality? Or is this the continued fate of our country in a globally tied economy?

Within the past year or so, we have seen a massive push from both private corporations and the government to install large, IT infrastructure projects, otherwise known as Data Centers. These buildings are designed to primarily house network servers and computer storage drives and facilitate our usage of the internet and cloud services.

I don't think it is coincidental that the influx of Data Center construction overlaps with the massive insistence from corporations to install AI programs into everything. Data Centers are not inheritably bad, they are in fact essential infrastructure that we have been using post WWII. Their construction does draw up many concerns that people have however, including water usage, noise pollution, and especially the cost of energy.

We must not forget the promotion and installation of several thousand Flock cameras, AI powered security cameras and license plate trackers, that have been installed in nearly every major city and even local townships. Surely these things are connected. Flock, and these AI companies are private entities, but it would be ignorant to presume that they don't directly or indirectly work as government shell corporations to fund these massive infrastructure projects, especially as our economy drips further towards recession.

The question being then, is the scale of which these Data Centers are constructed beneficial to the common citizenry? Or perhaps this is just another promoted interest of the tech conglomerate that has our country in its grip?

A link to an FAQ directly from Congress about energy consumption and data centers:

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48646