Let’s talk about democracy.

We love democracy–we think it’s a bang-up idea, egalitarian and all that. And you can help us preserve democracy in this township.

(From Fortune: “A Michigan farm town voted down plans for a giant OpenAI-Oracle data center. Weeks later, construction began.”)

See, we are holding a town hall, to ask if you want our data center built on your land. We are giving you a empowering opportunity: to make decisions by consent.

You see, this data center is going to go up. If you do not consent it will happen anyway, but you will be victims, not agentic deciders of your own fate.

Do you want to live in a democracy or a dictatorship? The choice is yours. Let us instead be partners and avoid all this unpleasantness. Nobody wants to be a victim, after all.