Homes, GHG and AI, Oh My!

Availability and cost of homes, real estate in general, are too rare and expensive. The use of real estate to launder criminal money transactions, and private equity buying, and taking off the market (supply side manipulation), too much property is happening... Forensic accountants need to investigate and criminal prosecutions need to follow, as needed.

Oil and gas companies, American Petroleum Institute (API), and their ilk, have known for more than 50 years (from research done by their own, and other, scientists) about worsening global climate change and instead of transitioning to renewable energy they lied, covered up information, about GHG emissions’ causes and effects.

AI can be tested and proved in retrofitted, existing, data centers, but inordinately wealthy individuals and companies are demanding new, ginormous, data centers without demonstrated need. The excessive water and electricity requirements can not be justified without smaller AI demonstrations. 

Time for electing Democrats is overdue, because proper investigations won’t be done without government legislative majorities, executive and SCOTUS  changes.

Register and vote, because without as close to everybody voting we perpetuate our own misery. 

The Dangerous Rush to AI...

AI is next generation computer automation being (over)sold as nearly magical, and it is (unsurprisingly) no such thing. AI can misunderstand and misinform as well as any pathological liar; requires extraordinary amounts of, human, peer review.

Tech companies are trying to gain access to enormous amounts of water and electric power to build AI supporting, ginormous, data centers without addressing concerns about availability, consequences or cost.

Tech swindlers are also overlooking the inability of LLM (Large Language Models), or any other AI variation, to tell truth from fiction, and therefore AI can create fictitious results in it's automation generated responses.

Automation, even when sold as AI, can be no better, or worse, than the humans who originated the software.

Thoughtful humans must apply the brakes to this AI rush, so that we need not find out, the hard way, that there are costs and consequences that must be considered, seriously considered, before proceeding with this push to put, “AI,” too close to everywhere, way too fast.

Business Insider Publication Exposes Data Center Secrets...

Business Insider published a report identifying data centers, existing and approved construction, across the entire USA. The folks who own existing data centers, and those who want more built, are very secretive.

Data centers use enormous amounts of electricity and similarly enormous quantities of fresh water (too oft in places, like the desert southwestern USA, that do not have the water to spare). There is a method for a closed loop that reuses the same water repeatedly, but that costs the data center operators a great deal of money to build and operate; money that cuts into their profit margins.

Another problem is that the supply of renewably produced electricity is completely insufficient for the electrification of transportation, homes, offices and manufacturing infrastructure, so they are quietly promoting increased use of gas, diesel, oil, coal (increased GHG emissions; greater climate change consequences) and nuclear power generation.  The problem with nuclear power is the large production of spent fuel rods, that will be dangerously radioactive for hundreds (Plutonium 238 half-life of 87 years) to billions (that’s right, the half life of Uranium 235 (700 million years) and Uranium 238 (4 billion years). There is no known way to store those spent fuel rods safely; especially for the needed amount of time.. The Plutonium is a low concentration of nuclear bomb material, both of the Uranium atomic weights are dirty bomb material.

https://www.businessinsider.com/satellite-images-show-how-data-centers-changing-american-landscape-2025-10#watch-the-documentary-below-on-the-dark-side-of-data-centers-keep-reading-to-see-satellite-images-of-how-data-centers-are-changing-the-american-landscape-2

AI has been proven to be as capable of data manipulation (via fudged equations, and gaming of the numbers that are plugged in to said equations) as any human...  Creating documentation that is false, lying like a human. AI, when properly peer reviewed and corrected, is capable of being run on smaller, existing computing environments; doesn’t need the proposed, new infrastructure.

Pause, till there is a proven need, AI and data center development.

The Start Project 2026-2028

The reason I've lived in Texas for 45 years is because where I grew up, Massachusetts, it costs way more to live indoors... 

States with Democratic governors oft also have Democratic state AGs, and they should come together to find out why it is so much more expensive to live indoors in some places; housing/population density is not sufficient to explain the enormous differences. (It will get much worse when sea levels start to rise…)

Once they've figured out the cause; fix it! 

Just like adopting Single Payer health care can lower medical costs massively, while increasing the quality of results; ALL the other OECD countries demonstrate that! 

There's more to it: 

https://blueboomerhd.blogspot.com/2025/11/economics-as-it-should-be-in-usa.html 

Affordability has been demonstrated to be something only Democrats will take seriously; address/fix.

Economics, As It Should Be, In The USA...

Time to put Democrats in charge.  

See also: the US economy from 1946 - 1976. 

The RCS (Republican criminal syndicate) has said all the right things, then demonstrated, time and again, that they don't mean it; won’t ever deliver.  

Small (RV, tiny home, other types of floor plans) manufactured houses could be located in abandoned shopping malls and empty office spaces; private equity prohibited.  Empty, associated, parking lots become green spaces with solar panels and windmills overhead.
 
Don't forget at least a $25/hour minimum wage, and the return of company funded, defined benefit, pensions...  

Social Security was designed to be the third leg of a stool (pension, personal savings and Social Security) upon which retired Americans could, comfortably, depend.

Did I mention Single Payer health care? As mentioned, repeatedly, the economy grows when as close to everyone can spend, save and invest!  The United States is the only OECD (an organization of the 38 most advanced national economies of the world) country where medical costs can cause personal bankruptcy.

Socialism (a form of cooperative, regulated capitalism) is at the core of economic success in the USA; check for paved streets, lights that work at the flick of a switch, water that flows every time you turn the tap, etc... Education (for all) and infrastructure (everywhere) ain't cheap; it’s not profitable. Compare prices of utilities that private companies provide against the cost when government provides same; compare quality and dependability as well. 

Again, the economy grows most when as close to everybody can live indoors, eat (afford general living expenses), vacation, save and invest (for retirement and etc...). 

The wealthy will only spend so much into the economy, because they already live well, and oft don't have a need to spend more. Keynesian government and working class folks (when they can) spend more into the economy; grow the economy for everybody. 

The business of business is profit, and when more folks can spend into the economy the likelihood of a profitable business increases.  When living indoors and child care is affordable, working people can focus better on their jobs, and again, will have more money to spend into the economy; profit potential, for the business community, increases; again. 

If the more, "well-to-do," move out, as oft threatened, while the aforementioned details increase the size of the local economy, then the local community will need a smarter group of wealthy residents... They'll move in to fill the void.  

When the schools are better, for every youngster, the quality of the life for the entire community improves.  Education and infrastructure are best done by government, socialism, because doing these things well, for as close to everybody, helps build the economy; isn't profitable. 

Keynesian economics state that the government provides about 30% of the funds spent into the economy; more when the economy slows down. The circumstances surrounding economic slow downs (job hours reduced or jobs lost) disallow average folks the ability to spend their standard, allotted amount into the economy.  Again, the wealthy folks don't spend more and rarely need to spend less; save money. 

Inflation (tariff enhanced) and slow wage growth, amongst the 90%, oft disrupts the economy.  The average wage for lowest earning, some 90% of the population of the USA, should be at least $52,000/yr., $25/hour, (income tax free) for a single, childless adult... Average wages, across the USA, are nowhere close to said amount. The federal minimum wage is completing it's second decade at $7.25/hour; not anywhere close to a living wage. 

Again, the economy grows when as close to everyone can afford to participate, not just scrape by. See also: United for Alice.

Life is What You Make of it...

Decide to invest the time, start with voting, to create and maintain the world you want to live in. If not, you’ll live in the world someone else wants. If it’s not good, get busy!

Live Intentionally!

Lead by example… Be exemplary!

Do for others as you’d like others to do for you.

So far, the worst of humanity has been kept in check by the rest of humanity. Unfortunately, the worst of humanity is never completely eliminated, because only the worst of humanity would do what’s needed for that to happen.

The worst of humanity will always blame someone else… If the shoe fits, gold plate it and sell it to the gullible.

Character is what you do when no one is watching. Be your own best observer. You are, after all, responsible for all of your own actions.

If you want the best possible outcome, for as close to everyone as possible, you must pay attention and try to do what is needed as often as is required; see above.

The world becomes a better place with each, and every, single, individual effort.

Be part of a team to amplify the best efforts.

It need not always fall to you to act, but, your best effort will always help.

If at first you don’t succeed, carry on.

Perfection is a stretch goal that can’t be attained, but can be approached incrementally.

Democracy does not happen on it’s own…

Democracy is not self-sustaining…

Socialism is government working, oft with others, to create the best possible world for as close to everybody as possible.

Socialism is what made the world’s greatest economic expansion, in the USA, in the mid-twentieth century, happen.

Life is better when you care.

A Boomer to the More Recent Generations...

Blaming us, Boomers, is the key to not getting back to where we were after WWII: 1946-1976.

The USA was the land of opportunity after WWII because of: unions, the New Deal, the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, Glass-Steagall, etc...

During the Gilded Age, the period of extravagance that caused the Great Depression, the megalomaniacal class (mega($)), the uber wealthy of the day, did not think, "enough," applied to them.  Sound familiar?

The business of business is profit, and unregulated businesses tend to profit only the owner class; those whose parents' fiscal status could make business ownership possible.  The mega($) also despised competition; built trusts wherever possible.

Teddy and Franklin D. Roosevelt were leaders in the effort to put significant, regulatory (government) restraints on their megalomaniacal peers.  The fix started before the turn of the 20th century, but was not successfully completed till the New Deal kicked into high gear at the end of WWII.

Keynesian government spending recognized the need for some activities (infrastructure: water, electricity, telecommunications (Internet, telephone, radio, TV, etc...), roads, airports, sea ports; military; education: pre-k to post doc; health care; R&D: FFRDCs, tier 1 & 2 public, research universities; etc...) needed to be done for as close to everybody as possible; this was/is not profitable.  Socialism was, and still is, needed.  Businesses can not, will not, do what's required, even as they declare that, "only they can." Sounding familiar here as well?

In the 1960s and 70s progress towards an all inclusive society was made: the Voting Rights and Civil Rights Acts lead the way.  Women's health care made major progress in the precedent set by Roe v. Wade.  A woman could not have her own credit card, car or home loan till half way through the 1970s; ask your Mom or Grandmother.

There was a problematic group, heavily promoted by a resurging mega($) class, during the late 20th century called the, "neo-liberals."  They were neither new nor were/are they liberal. Moving away from the government regulations that restrained the unenlightened self-interests of the 1% allowed the economy, that the more recent generations find problematic, to come to pass; again.

I will not defend Boomers from the part of the blame that we deserve. However, if you want to rebuild the economy that made the USA the most equitably wealthy, overall, in the world, you've got a great deal of work to do. If, “socialism,” seems unworkable to you, that points to that person in your mirror as your main problem.

You can ask the Boomers to help, and quite a few of us will, but the effort you need the most is your own; start with voting.  Greed is an ever present characteristic of the human race, and it must be regulated by government; of, by and for the people (voters and other participants). Mega($) self restraint has not, and will not, ever happen.