From Anunnaki Command Centers to Musk’s Colossus—and the Growing Revolt Over Who Gets the Water, Electricity, Land, and Power
By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA)
For thousands of years, whoever controlled information could control people. The Anunnaki, large, mostly White Homo sapiens people from Planet Nibiru(an outlier planet of the Sun, also circled by the red-brown dwarf star Nemesis), concentrated astronomical information, transportation schedules, communications, and administrative programs in command centers accessible primarily to the Anunnaki rulers. Today we call these gigantic concentrations of computational power computer programs called MEs in ancient data and command centers. But long before the Anunnaki created our species (300,000 years ago), they had their own data center in Iraq (Sippar), Egypt (Giza), and South Africa (above Point Agulhas).
Ancient data centers, like modern ones, gave their bosses an advantage in knowledge over the people they rule.
Across the United States, communities now confront the physical infrastructure behind industrial buildings, transmission lines, generating plants, cooling equipment, water consumption, and—in some places—the persistent noise of modern data centers that have superseded the ancient MEs. An AP-NORC/University of Chicago poll reported in September 2026 found that 60% of Americans supported limiting the number of new data centers; 2/3 of us supported requiring data centers to use clean energy and not drain water and electricity from the communities where they installed their facilities.
Follow the information below: records from SIPPAR, Iraq, to GIZA, Egypt; from astronomical calendars in South Africa and Mesoamerica to mechanical calculators in Europe; and finally to the enormous AI installations transforming twenty-first-century America.
442,000 BCE: SIPPAR: ANUNNAKI INFO CONTROL MEANT PLANET CONTROL
Earth’s earliest great command-and-data center stood at SIPPAR, in what later became Iraq, although earlier, pre-Nibiran Lyran settlers of Atlantis, Turkey, Sardinia, and Malta used the line-up of stars, equinoxes, and solstices as giant data information centers that let them prepare for Earth’s periodic, astronomically caused catastrophes.
The “MEs” described in Mesopotamian literature were the Lyrans from Nibiru after they built command and information modules at Sippar. ENLIL’s command center, the boss of the Anunnaki Goldmining Expedition to Earth, coordinated spacecraft arrivals and departures, astronomical events, transportation, and communications between Earth, Mars, and Nibiru. ENLIL (later calling himself “Yahweh”) controlled the system; his Astronaut Corps (the Igigi) flew gold bars from ore mined in Southeast Africa and flew personnel and equipment to and from Earth and Mars and from and to Nibiru.
The all-male Astronaut Corps, and ANZU, their Commander, demanded reduced workloads, women, more beer, “elixir,” and a recreation center on Earth. Enlil initially resisted giving Anzu access to the command room. ANU, the Nibiran King, and Enki, the Anunnaki Chief Scientist, urged Enlil to lobby Anzu to stop agitating for workers’ rights and keep pressing them to work harder and to send more gold faster to Nibiru for mending the gap in their sky that the unprecedented cessation of volcanic activity and lack of volcanic ash cover that, before the volcanoes shut down, protected the planet from radiation poisoning.
Anzu gained entrance to Enlil’s data center, where he seized Enlil’s command equipment and MEs, disrupted communications, and attempted to take control of Earth.
Enlil’s son NINURTA, in a fighter aircraft Enki designed, pursued Anzu, defeated him, recovered the command equipment, returned control to Enlil’s faction, and executed Anzu. But this first Igigi invasion demonstrated the fact that continues to this day: CONTROL THE INFORMATION SYSTEM, AND YOU CONTROL THE ORGANIZATION THAT DEPENDS UPON IT. In Anzu’s day, the dominators who ran the Anunnaki controlled access to information, transportation, and communications. The cooperators, in this case, the Igigi workers, excluded from the data, suffered. What a precedent!
11, 000 BCE: GIZA: NINGISHZIDDA BUILT THE GREAT PYRAMID AS POST-FLOOD DATA CENTER
After the great Deluge of 11,000 BCE destroyed the Anunnaki facilities around Sippar, Enlil built a new data center to control the Anunnaki transportation and communications network over a new landing corridor and navigation system. The new rocket route to and from Earth followed landing and take-off routes through Sinai, Jerusalem, Lebanon, and the Giza pyramids. Like modern data centers in the U.S., the Giza pyramids use water — in this case, drawn from the Nile River — to run their equipment.
GIZA REPLACED SIPPAR’S MUD-COVERED DATA CENTER
Anunnaki Prince Ningishzidda, Enki’s son, was a patrilineal [through his father] Enki-ite;, through his mother [Ereshkigal], Ningishzidda was a matrilineally affiliated nephew. Ningishzidda designed chambers in the Great Pyramid that featured data banks [“crystals”] and equipment for power amplification, communications, computation, and astro-navigation systems.
Commander Enlil was so pleased that he had the stone lion’s face sculpted as that of his nephew Ningishzidda, the architect of the Pyramid complex. (Later when Marduk took charge of Giza, he changed the face of the stone lion from that of Ningishzidda to that of Osiris, his (Marduk’s) son [the same narcissistic –Trump followed when he tried to change the name of the Kennedy Center to the Trump Center].
Enlil and the dominator-obsessed lineage he led used electricity and computing power generated by the Giza pyramids to monopolize navigation, transportation, communications, and astronomical knowledge.
350 BCE: ADAM’S CALENDAR AND THE MAYAN CALENDAR: ENKI SIGHTED SKY EVENTS AS DATA DUMPS IN AFRICA & MESOAMERICA
Michael Tellinger studied what he calls ADAM’S CALENDAR in South Africa. Adam’s Calendar rocked, that is to say, Adam’s Calendar lined up stones and measured the shadows they cast or failed to cast to show the Anunnaki where Nibiru was in its orbit between Nemesis and Solaris. Adam’s calendar let ENKI, the creator of Adam’s Calendar, track Nibiru’s orbit and anticipate potentially catastrophic concomitant effects on Earth.
The Maya developed extraordinarily sophisticated calendrical and astronomical systems. Their surviving codices contain calculations concerning the Sun, Moon, Venus, eclipses, Mars, seasons, and stars. The Dresden Codex includes an especially important Venus table.
3114 BCE: NINGISHZIDDA GAVE MESOAMERICA ITS CALENDAR
He showed them how to make calendars that showed Venus circled the sun every 6000 years. Thoth also taught the Mayans about the more-than-26,000-year precession of the Equinoxes on Earth. He showed them how to make and use telescopes and had astronomer apprentices raised in the dark to better see the heavens through them. The accuracy of their predictions over time validates Nibiran presence and influence on Earth. [Tsarion, M., 2012]
Around 1623 CE, WILHELM SCHICKARD built a mechanical four-function calculator, a prototype of our modern computers. He combined Napier’s Bones with toothed wheels capable of addition and subtraction. He described his “calculating clock” in letters to astronomer JOHANNES KEPLER.
In 1642 CE, Blaise Pascal developed his famous PASCALINE, initially to help his father perform the calculations required in his work as a tax administrator. Pascal eventually constructed roughly 50 machines. Gottfried Wilhelm LEIBNIZ subsequently improved mechanical calculation. Much later came programmable punch cards, Charles Babbage’s mechanical computing designs, Boolean logic, tabulating machines, electronic computers, and finally today’s artificial-intelligence systems. Calculation began moving from human brains and Anunnaki-placed rocks into the electric devices we call computers.
2020s: THE “CLOUD” CAME DOWN TO EARTH
Today’s artificial intelligence seems immaterial. Ask an AI a question, and words appear. But behind those words stand very material machines.
AI requires enormous collections of specialized processors housed in buildings connected to electrical grids, cooling systems, communications networks, backup generators, and, depending upon the cooling design, substantial water infrastructure. And suddenly Americans began discovering what “the cloud” actually looked like when somebody proposed building one next door.
Communities have raised questions about electricity prices, water consumption, noise, air pollution, tax subsidies, land use, grid expansion, and how much authority local residents should have over development decisions. Supporters counter that data centers provide investment, construction employment, tax revenue, technological infrastructure, and the computing capacity increasingly used throughout the economy. San Jose, for example, estimates that a single new data center could generate as much as $6 million in local tax revenue annually.
Thus the issue is more complicated than AI GOOD versus AI BAD. The democratic question is: WHO RECEIVES THE BENEFITS, WHO ABSORBS THE COSTS, AND WHO GETS TO DECIDE? WHO BENEFITED?
DOMINATORS say, Concentrating computing infrastructure can concentrate extraordinary economic and informational power in corporations possessing the capital to build it. WE, THE COOPERATORS, warn: AI can also distribute capabilities once restricted to large institutions—research assistance, translation, tutoring, creative tools, accessibility, and sophisticated computation. The machine itself does not answer the political question of who controls it.
MUSK’S COLOSSUS: WHEN THE MACHINE’S RUMBLE ENTERED PEOPLE’S HOMES
One of the most dramatic conflicts surrounds Elon Musk’s xAI operation near MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, beside the Mississippi state line. The facility operates GROK, Musk’s AI system. The enormous computing power it demands requires enormous power. NPR/WPLN reporter Caroline Eggers visited the area and reported approximately 60 gas turbines associated with the operation. Some are derived from jet-engine designs. Neighbors hear them day and night. This isn’t necessarily ordinary sound that disappears when someone closes a window.
The problem of data center noise involves LOW-FREQUENCY NOISE. Low frequencies can travel farther and penetrate structures differently from higher-frequency sound. Residents involved in litigation argue that the persistent industrial rumble interferes with life at home. The turbines never turn off.” Residents file lawsuit challenging noise pollution from Elon Musk’s data center. As data-center development accelerated there, concerns grew over electricity, water, and neighborhood effects.
In August 2026, Republican Governor Greg Abbott ordered a comprehensive audit before additional projects advanced through the ERCOT interconnection process. ERCOT was then considering more than 474 gigawatts of connection requests—more than five times the Texas grid’s record peak electricity demand. Abbott subsequently described his standards as requiring data centers to protect the grid, conserve water, respect neighborhoods, and pay their own costs rather than shifting them to Texas families.
In September, Texas moved to penalize data centers that failed to comply with state water-use reporting requirements.
From the community critics’ perspective, a corporation should not be able to externalize noise, pollution, infrastructure costs, or resource demands onto residents who had little voice in the decision. Developers and supportive governments argue that computing infrastructure can produce investment, construction employment, tax revenue, and technology essential to modern economic development.
WE, THE COOPERATORS ASK: If our neighborhood supplies the land, grid capacity, water, air, and tolerance for industrial noise, where is our seat at the table?
2026: WE, THE PEOPLE PUSHED BACK—AND LEFT AND RIGHT SOMETIMES JOINED
Something politically unusual is happening.
Resistance to data centers does not fit neatly into America’s normal partisan boxes.
The Associated Press reported this week that concerns about data-center electricity and water consumption cross party lines. About 60% of Americans favor limiting new data centers, according to the AP-NORC/University of Chicago poll.
Republican Texas officials imposed new requirements.
Communities in North Carolina considered moratoriums.
California residents demanded environmental review.
New York imposed a moratorium on large new data centers and has considered substantial community-benefit requirements.
On September 16, 2026, the U.S. House voted 417–3 for legislation intended to help prevent ordinary ratepayers from bearing the infrastructure costs generated by enormous new electricity consumers such as data centers.
THOM HARTMANN explicitly interprets the phenomenon as a new populist movement.
He points to Republican farmers, Democratic environmentalists, ranchers, rural residents, and Texas communities opposing or seeking restrictions on large data-center projects. Hartmann characterizes the fundamental conflict as oligarchy versus democracy. That is Hartmann’s political interpretation rather than a neutral description of every participant’s motives, but the cross-partisan resistance he describes is real.
ROBERT REICH argues for a moratorium, emphasizing noise, water use, electricity consumption, and community opposition.
BERNIE SANDERS and ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ introduced the AI Data Center Moratorium Act on March 25, 2026. Sanders argues that decisions capable of reshaping society should be debated publicly and subject to democratic oversight rather than determined by a small number of wealthy technology executives.
In September, Sanders and Texas Representative Greg Casar went further, announcing proposed legislation to prohibit artificial superintelligence and temporarily pause certain advanced AI development until federal safety rules are in place.
Whether readers agree with these proposals or oppose them, something significant has happened:
THE DATA CENTER HAS BECOME A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE QUESTION.
WHO BENEFITED?
DOMINATOR: Critics fear a system in which corporations acquire land and enormous quantities of energy and water while governments socialize some infrastructure or environmental costs.
COOPERATOR: Communities are demanding disclosure, public hearings, environmental safeguards, fair utility pricing, community benefits, and meaningful consent.
The emerging principle is simple:
IF THE PEOPLE SHARE THE COST, THE PEOPLE DEMAND A VOICE.
THE PEOPLE BUILDING AI THEMSELVES WARN THAT HUMANITY MUST CONTROL IT
Some of the people who helped create modern artificial intelligence have publicly warned about the possibility of catastrophic loss of human control. In 2023, the Center for AI Safety published a remarkably brief statement: “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.” Among its signatories were Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis, Dario Amodei, Ilya Sutskever, and XAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin. They signed a statement saying that the risk of extinction from AI deserves global priority.
Anzu understood that whoever controlled Enlil’s system held extraordinary power. Thousands of years later, humanity has created information systems whose capacities are growing extraordinarily rapidly.
But this time the question is: CAN HUMANITY REMAIN IN CONTROL OF WHAT THE DATA CENTER CREATES? Dominators demand that we concentrate information, energy, wealth, computation, and decision-making. Technological progress requires obedience. Partnership partisans argue that powerful technology should keep people informed, distribute costs fairly, protect communities, establish safeguards, and maintain meaningful human control.
AI can potentially help humanity understand disease, climate, language, engineering, history, education, and one another. It can also magnify surveillance, manipulation, inequality, warfare, and concentrated power. Technology doesn’t make that choice for us. WE DO.
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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING
Computer History Museum. “Schickard’s Calculator and the Pascaline.” Schickard’s 1623 machine and Pascal’s later mechanical calculator.
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. “The Calendar System.” Maya astronomy, Haab, Tzolk’in, Calendar Round, and Long Count.
Bricker, Harvey M., and Victoria R. Bricker. Astronomy in the Maya Codices. Smithsonian Libraries record. Covers Venus, Mercury, eclipses, Mars, seasons, stars, and calendrical astronomy.
Eggers, Caroline/WPLN-NPR. “Residents file lawsuit challenging noise pollution from Elon Musk’s data center.” September 17, 2026.
PBS News, Horizons. “Why communities are revolting against data centers.” June 11, 2026.
Hartmann, Thom. “Big Tech Is Coming For Your Water, Your Land, Your Lungs, and Your Electric Bill.” August 27, 2026.
Associated Press. Reporting on bipartisan American concern over data-center electricity and water demands, September 2026.
Reuters. Reporting on U.S. data-center resistance, electricity costs, Texas water regulation, and California development disputes, September 2026.
Office of Texas Governor Greg Abbott. Comprehensive Data Center Audit, August 3, 2026.
Sanders, Bernie, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. AI Data Center Moratorium Act, announced March 25, 2026.
Center for AI Safety. Statement on AI Extinction Risk.
For the Anunnaki portions: Lessin, Sasha Alex, and Janet Kira Lessin; Zecharia Sitchin; Michael Tellinger; and the additional works cited in our underlying Anunnaki research.
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