The WV legislature passed a bill that disallows counties or communities to have any say-so in their areas with the location of AI data centers, centers which consume more water that is in most nearby rivers and electricity drain that most studies say the costs will be shifted to electric consumers, already reaching all time highs. The centers dispel heavy pollution, particularly when outside electric grids go down and hundreds of generators kick in, downplayed by developers.

Most states are denying the AI Data Centers, but West Virginia is welcoming at least eight with open arms, continuing more of a century embracing fossil fuel.

COMMENT Bob Weaver 2026

This is one of hundreds conspiracy theories that will likely happen to the wobbly-kneed American democracy, which for decades has moved into a unannounced Oligarchy, now moving toward Totalitarianism, a country run by big money, with the national debt $39 trillion dollars, with the USA paying on the interest to keep the ship afloat.

Paying down the debt has been a promise of every administration.

Now the war with Iran costs up to one billion dollars a day with the Pentagon asking congress for $200 billion new funding, the war not approved by Congress. Now at the end of March, a total of 50,000 troops on the ground, including USA soldiers.

I will spare the history of Americas ill-begotten wars in the past 75 years, but over and over the Military Industrial Complex got richer and richer under both of Americas two-parties.

Few people will recall the Great Depression, which lasted ten years, no jobs with poverty, hunger and death. The depression ended with WWII, where jobs abounded with money created for the Military Industrial Complex.

Since we rarely never learn from history, few will remember the nation fell apart on ONE DAY in 1929 - the US Stock Market (Wall Street) collapsed causing the depression

My historical friends, all smarter than me, believe it will likely happen again - quickly when it does.

Numerous studies say the USA is moving toward Totalitarianism. The Democracy Index now says the USA ranks 36th with other nations, now listed as a Deficient Democracy.

Most of the world's democracies are on wobbly legs.

Another concern being the coming of Artificial Intelligence with data centers and robots impacting millions of jobs with the political division reaching the dissent of the Civil War.

The ground has already been obtained for one of eight proposed in WV. WV again named the worst "green" state in the nation, and in most studies the state's clean water systems are listed the worst.

Downfall, what will happen first, the US defaulting on the $39 trillion national debt or Wall Street collapsing. Some say America will go down fighting wars.

Quickly following will be the collapse of the electric grid, the internet grid and the food grid, far worse than the Great Depression.

Rarely mentioned in Washington is the "Close You Down" Electronic EMB/HEMP bomb, owned by the USA and several USA enemies. Detonated over the USA will instantly kill every electronic device in a second.

If America collapses, millions of people in urban areas will face chaos and death, but those living in the poverty of the West Virginia hills, having been on the worst USA lists most of their lifetimes - there is good news for those who live in this great backwoods forest, we still know how to raise a turnip and kill a deer.

I recall what my Grandfather John Ira McCoy said about the Depression, "No way to make any money, but our kitchen table was piled high with food we raised. We never went hungry."

Visiting a Tribal Chief in Alaska years ago, he said they had never heard about the Great Depression for several years, being subsistence fishers and gatherers.

My historical friends said only a miracle from God could prevent the collapse.

Yet, for years on the Hur Herald I have written, watching the sun rise over the mountain, saying, "We live in the greatest place in the world."