Billions of private student messages across 8,809 schools have been hacked by the ShinyHunters group. This is what "smart schools" actually deliver: a dumb (and predictable) result of centralization of education into one vulnerable cloud. It is the latest example of why planetary-scale consolidation of data--as with Palantir's taking over military ops and farm production data--doesn't bring efficiency or safety — it brings fragility at scale.

People must understand the true cost of these AI data centers isn't just tremendous amounts of water (as they turn off water to gardens in Utah) or power (as they prepare to lock us down for an energy crisis) -- it is our sovereignty and security.