Look Under the Hood First Before Purchasing! Demand Accountability!

Jeany Rush | Colorado Springs | June 4, 2026

Editor’s note: This letter has been lightly edited for clarity and formatting. The views expressed are those of the author.

There was a day when you were paid for the work you had completed, or for what was accomplished. Not in energy today.

Today, we are propping up pseudo-renewable energies, fake net-carbon-zero lies, false Green Deal policies, fake clean air policies in Colorado, and a host of misguided, dangerous energy resource precedents — many of which are not only unreliable and unsustainable, but terribly costly and subsidized by the taxpayers. We are talking about trillions of dollars for energy sources that are more environmentally dangerous and costly than the real, reliable energy sources of natural gas, oil, and coal done clean.

We have, as a state, literally attacked natural gas producers who would provide — and do provide — more needed energy that already exists. Why attack it?

We have shut down operating coal plants, including Drake, when they were cleaner, and when shut down, we did not have a replacement for those energy producers. We have attacked and shut down oil production, refineries, and the companies that produce them through fees, fines, and outright penalty rules designed to stop them. This is happening on a national level to decimate our absolutely necessary energy resources. Thanks to all of the ideologues propping up the Globalist World Economic Forum, Davos, and the EU one-world-order need to control and destroy our communities and their resources. Is anyone paying attention?

Did you not get the memo that our nation has debunked the renewable lies of wind, solar, battery farms, and wind walls? Have any of you not seen that in order to promote this avenue of energy, you will enrich the following: public-private partnerships, NGOs, non-profits, shell corporations controlled and owned by foreign interests, and globalist organizations attempting to gain control of our own resources, land, and ultimately us? Subsidizing enemies worldwide is the new norm in the USA? Why? Ask some questions. Demand accountability.

Add the non-transparent AI data center agenda, and you have a perfect storm of control and destruction of local authority over our own destiny and resources.

We never needed to destroy millions of acres of land — much of it farm and ranch food production — for nine technology companies globally controlling all AI data centers, while those companies are hundreds of billions of dollars in debt. And oh, wait for it — we get to pay.

CO2 is life, not a pollutant. We now know that. Even in the EU, they are walking back from the hoax of the Green Deal, climate lies, and more.

I am sending my bill on AI once again to you all, so you can stop doing stupid things at our expense and get back to a reality-based energy future. I did not even mention that the bill declaring nuclear clean was another boondoggle — to subsidize more insanity. While there may be a future for other forms of energy, the insane centralization, high-voltage transmission lines through our lands for other areas’ benefit, and the use of eminent domain prior to approvals — thanks Xcel, thanks PUC — again shows the irresponsible ignorance guiding us off the cliff.

Now let’s add this one: Why would any CEO or administrative director expect hundreds of thousands of dollars in salary while presiding over this much ineffective, inaccurate, and false energy policy?

Is it like why we pay administrators — who are driving our students into rabbit holes and presiding over children being mutilated — six-figure salaries to destroy our society?

No negative intent toward the utilities, but when do you all stop taking more money and start producing real policies?

I object to all of this happening to our communities. I object to more salaries for the elite few while the masses go down in flames of taxes, debt, and horrible policies heaped on our citizens. Enough.

By the way: This bill was pulled in the end.

TO: House Energy & Environment Committee RE: HB26-1030 — Data Center & Utility Modernization Sponsors: A. Valdez, M. Duran, K. Mullica From: Jeany Rush, Colorado Constituent — May 7, 2026 Vote: NO — “Pandora’s Box of Extinction, Much?”

Three punches in one fell swoop? “Colorado Data Workforce, Clean Energy, Grid Modernization, Consumer and Environmental Protection Act?” Have you read the Colorado Clean Energy bill — 800-plus pages of false science? Have you monitored the consumer and environmental actions? This body turned down a true grid modernization and vulnerability assessment. Nothing in your opening of this bill is even true. It is instead very misleading and a total usurpation of this state and its future growth in energy.

First and foremost: you slap the safety clause on this another-boondoggle bill, shutting unsuspecting voters out of the conversation. This state has supported hyper-high transmission lines to take energy away from local communities, transport it over distance, and continue the control of centralized power systems. That is not protecting local grids, communities, or people. This body supported PUC, Xcel, and others taking land via eminent domain, assuring centralized control at the cost of the very people who built and paid for this state. This state is pushing fake renewal, climate, clean, green, zero-tolerance, anti-CO2 energy policies that will destroy the average citizen. Why is this body tying our future to totally destructive, invasive, unsustainable, unaffordable policies that will impact humanity in irreversible ways?

Google AI on what data centers will do to humans. The answer is extinction. While I am not against reasonable and thoughtful development, this is being done totally against the interests of America’s citizens.

“While AI data centers enrich the Big Tech elite, our water, climate, and communities pay the price.”

These facilities can take many forms, ranging from small server rooms inside office buildings to massive, stand-alone campuses the size of hundreds of football fields. This last category, often known as hyperscale data centers, has drawn particular attention thanks to their size, rapid growth, and impacts on local communities.

There were just over 3,900 data centers across the United States as of late January — nearly 37% of the world’s total. Yet market trends show that hyperscale development is highly concentrated in just a few regions. Virginia, often described as “the data center capital of the world,” hosts the largest number of facilities, followed by Texas and California. Together, the top 10 states account for roughly 60% of all data centers nationwide. (World Resources Institute)

Data centers raise energy demand and electricity bills. A single hyperscale AI data center can consume as much energy as 100,000 households, and the largest as much as 2 million. This increased demand has been linked to skyrocketing energy prices across the country. There are hundreds of AI data centers already across the nation — 60 in Colorado, and over 300 in the four-state Midwest area, of which 24 are hyperscale. The impacts are massive.

Data centers are using up gas, coal, and other sources. Big Tech needs power and is pushing forward regardless of the consequences.

Data centers are endangering our water supply. Servers run super-hot and require massive amounts of water for cooling. Estimates for 2028 put U.S. data center water needs as high as the equivalent of 18.5 million households — or more. As much as two-thirds of data centers built since 2022 are located in water-stressed regions. A Meta center in Georgia has reports of neighboring taps running dry.

Data centers are creating more air pollution. The data is mixed, but alarms are being raised.

Data centers are shrinking our tax base. Millions of dollars in tax revenue are lost to entice Big Tech — not small businesses, the real lifeblood of a society. Government is shelling out billions to prop up AI, while the big picture remains obscured.

Data centers are threatening jobs. They do not create many jobs after construction, and those they do create are 168 times more costly than an average job in income. They destabilize entire industries, eliminate tens of thousands of jobs, and replace too many entry-level positions. This feels like planned obsolescence.

Data centers are a blight on communities. Long and disruptive construction periods wreak havoc — longer commutes, traffic, closed public spaces, reduced quality of life, and the constant buzzing of cooling systems, 24 hours a day.

The data center boom is imperiling the entire economy. This AI boom is propped up on huge debt, financial speculation, and risks an economic meltdown of epic proportions. AI companies are already hundreds of billions of dollars in debt. Where will the promised profits come from?

Data centers create toxic waste dumped on other countries. Servers, chips, and computing components become trash within a few years. Disposal has been linked to exposure to lead, mercury, and cadmium — connected to health issues ranging from neurodevelopmental impairments to cancer.

AI devours our sensitive personal data. Massive data-scraping efforts by AI companies reach our medical, financial, and private information. Seven of the top 10 richest people on the globe are U.S. tech leaders with wealth in the hundreds of billions. The imbalance of power is evident.

(Information from several online sources, including Food & Water Watch.)

This explains why there is such a push for more and more data centers in the Midwest, with wide-open lands — impacting farmers and ranchers, using tools like conservation easements and other methods to gain access and control, and swooping in on unsuspecting ranchers with generations of ownership. This is a global effort, and it is playing out dangerously in America.

This is the opening of Pandora’s Box. AI may have a place in some things, but what is happening in real time is a complete takeover, and this cannot end well for humanity. WEF, Davos, Harari, Schwab, and others have already stated that UN Agenda 2030 calls for two-thirds of us depopulated by 2030. Add the 30×30 rewilding plans to remove us from our lands. This is too easily exploited. Sometimes simpler is better.

In outrage, Jeany Rush Shocked and Overwhelmed Grouchy Grandmother Colorado Springs