This infernal alliance between state and international corporations, could well be the symbolic representations of the two Beasts in Revelation. They appear to be a joint conspiracy against the rest of the human race, consuming and polluting our vital resources in order to enslave us.
There seems to have developed an exponential demand for such data storage, since the onset of AI. There is no need for such universal storage of information. 99% of it seems like preserving ‘pub talk’, ephemeral information that is soon forgotten by all parties concerned. The only purposes of storing such communications is to analyse the opinions of those doing so, in order to exercise political control, as far as I can see. In a world struggling for energy for all purposes, data centres are a major provocation for energy war and piracy. Hence Trump’s blatant desire to steal Venezuela’s oil. It doesn’t appear just a matter of whether WWIII will happen, it is looking like it has to happen.