I do!  Though I'm not going to apologize for having authored patents. They're all owned by the companies I've worked for along the way, and none of those companies have been "AI companies". Very few of them even involve AI, and those that do are leveraging old-school AI like neural networks (which were invented in the 1940's).  Have a look yourself if you need some reading that'll put a guy to sleep ;)  https://patents.justia.com/inventor/john-j-mewes

I won't argue that there is plenty of surveillance going on.  Definitely more than I'd like, but then I sure do enjoy living in a safe and secure society, so it's complicated.  All I was saying was that big brother and surveillance in general are not what is driving the boom in data center construction.  The demand for the computing that goes on in them runs much deeper than that, and is coming from all over.  The original question was with regard to data centers - what purpose they serve, why we need them, etc.  The thread devolved into mostly nonsense and conspiracy theories relative to the original question.