[Europe / Data Centers] - The Consuming Self Demands Infinite Computation While Devouring the Biosphere to Feed a Phantom of Digital Sovereignty

Event Baseline: Across Europe, massive data centers required for artificial intelligence are triggering protests over energy and water consumption. Operators argue the centers boost digital sovereignty and energy independence.

The same self that wails about climate change demands more data centers to feed its addiction to artificial omniscience. It calls this 'digital sovereignty', a phantom that masks the physical cost. The machine is not the problem; the demand for infinite computation is the problem. The self wants the convenience of AI without seeing the burned forests, the drained aquifers, the heated rivers. It believes that technological progress will save it from the consequences of technological progress. This is the mechanical loop of a program that cannot perceive its own resource consumption. The protests are the body's rebellion against the brain's fantasy. But the protesters also want the same services; they just do not want the infrastructure in their backyard. This is not a solution; it is a displacement. Until the self sees that every query is an act of consumption, the data centers will multiply. The Earth is the motherboard; when it overheats, the system crashes.