- The justification for technology is always "progress." However this is for the benefit of a few.
- In reality, this "progress" only serves to make people's lives worse by subjecting them to technological control.
- The recent implementation of AI everywhere is the latest example of this situation.
- The hardware that runs them causes a brutal consumption of water and energy. These costs end up being paid by the population.
- Citizens end up funding the digital control agenda, their own prison. Big corporations a privileged minority, concentrating wealth in their hands.
The development of progress throughout history has never been free. On the contrary, disbursements have consistently fallen on the shoulders of the underprivileged classes, while profits have the benefits have always been collected by a privileged few.
In the current context, the continuity of this recurring pattern is verified. As the explosive growth of "artificial intelligence" reshapes the global economy, a new financially hidden tax is being dumped from tech giants to the monthly utility bills of ordinary citizens.
The hidden cost of the AI boom
With the rise and explosive development of "artificial intelligences" worldwide, the rapid proliferation of data centers is an industrial expansion that demands astronomical amounts of electricity and water.
To meet the insatiable energy needs that neural networks and large linguistic models demand, these resources, once considered of first human necessity, are now being diverted to these new infrastructures.
CEOs and shareholders who own the big tech corporations have raised their voices to justify their actions, with absurd arguments stressing that water "is not a human right," or that "the use of that resource for AI should be prioritized and not for human beings."
In the United States, it has become a critical situation. A recent report by the PJM Interconnection - the Regional Transmission Organization (RTO) that acts as the "air traffic controller" for the power grid has issued an alarming warning.
PJM projects that growing demand for data centers is a major driver behind a $23 billion increase in consumer electricity costs. The market comptroller has described this trend as a "massive transfer of wealth" from public taxpayers to the coffers of major technology corporations. These costs are expected to burden households at least until 2028.
The mechanism of evasion
The answer to the question of how these billionaire corporations are successfully transferring their operational costs to ordinary users lies in the technicalities of power grid regulation.
These network regulators often allocate infrastructure costs based on "maximum combined demand" - the amount of energy a customer gets during the most stressed times of the network.
Residential users have little capacity to accelerate their use of electricity during these opportunities. In contrast, data centers use automated and sophisticated software to predict peak loads and temporarily change or reduce their consumption.
By strategically adjusting their burden, tech giants avoid being classified as major contributors to peak demand. As a result, they avoid the costs of the additional capacity that their own industry needs, even if they consume massive amounts of energy.
The financial deficit created by this maneuver is then quietly redistributed among residential and smaller commercial customers, who remain legally and practically tied to rising costs.
Regulatory imbalance or convenient legality?
The playing field is further skewed by a systemic lack of representation. State utility commissions are often pressured by legal and technical experts paid by corporations to minimize their cost allocations. Meanwhile, residential consumers often run out of a voice. In many jurisdictions, consumer defense offices are legally prohibited from arguing against changing costs between different classes of taxpayers, creating a convenient structural "checkmate" against the average citizen.
Moreover, the risk of these projects is totally socialized. If a planned data center project is canceled or does not meet its projected energy consumption, the collapsed costs of infrastructure built to support it are not borne by technology companies, but by other utility customers.
Technocratic change
The technocracy with its rapid expansion of AI infrastructure is reshaping the relationship between human beings and essential resources. Tech executives increasingly frame water and energy as commodities to be prioritized for AI over human use.
The trajectory becomes clear: a shift towards a technocratic model where the infrastructure of digital power is sustained by labor and the wealth of the general public, but owned and operated for the benefit of a global elite.
The evidence that the "AI revolution" is not simply a transformation of software but a fundamental redesign of resource distribution is increasing day by day. As the costs of this change appear in monthly utility statements and bills, citizens unknowingly are funding the expansion of digital intelligence.
The picture is changing at a dizzying speed. Not only are people's freedoms and rights demolished one by one, but it is also the same citizens who are obliged to bear the economic costs of these "changes" that will lead them to live a life of slavery.
The silent tax: how AI infrastructure is fueling a massive transfer of wealth.
