Editor's note: ...a highly engineered, extremely reliable analog telephone network once viewed as a "technological wonder", replacing it with a lower-quality digital system that tracks users while showing little concern for service failures or rising costs. This shift and likely
breakup of Bell System (AT&T) was deliberately planned and was the early groundwork for surveillance capitalism, data collection economies, and the erosion of ownership into permanent subscription models across music, gaming, and even vehicles. We are being "turned into permanent renters of our goods and services with the surveillance state". Data centers, AI expansion, and Silicon Valley are cast as the core infrastructure enabling real-time tracking and control, built by converting fertile farmland into an artificial digital order that is unsustainable and completely detached from nature. The grid and electrical production output was a long-planned move away from reliability and human-centered design toward silicon-based systems of prediction and dominance. The DOE emergency order republished in the news article below directly manages data centers as large loads that can be shifted to backup power amid thin reserves and high outages on the PJM grid. This illustrates the physical electricity strain created by the very data-center and AI expansion at its core is an unsustainable digital control system. Nature has been replaced by an artificial reality. We are now prisoners in this digital reality. By its very nature digital is tyranny: there can only be 0s and 1s. Unlike nature, the digital world is not sustainable.
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DOE Declares Power Grid Emergency Across 13 States as Blackout Risks Rise
With 61,591 megawatts of generation out for maintenance, the order lets PJM summon extra power and move data centers and other large loads onto backup generation.
By Ethan Fowler | October 14, 2026
The Department of Energy has declared a statutory electric-reliability emergency across PJM's 13-state grid territory after the operator warned that elevated demand, outages, and thin reserves could jeopardize power delivery.