The chosen label for this new fear-as-control exercise is "water bankruptcy" . It's a name originating in a UN report published earlier this year.

The decades old grumbling rumours of a  "water crisis" just weren't scary enough you see, so just as global warming became "climate change", and then "global heating", and now "global boiling" –  so this  "crisis" is rebooted as something irresistibly alarming.

The language alone is the first indicator of what we really have here.

The broad stroke of the "water bankruptcy" narrative is:

1. The planet is running out of clean, safe drinking water

2. Climate change and the rise of AI are causing this problem,

…and – of course –

3. We really need to do something about it.

The fast developing and dark reality is a plan that will use deliberately instilled fear of water shortages to manufacture fake water shortages, and then police, commodify and monetize the global water supply in the name of "water security".

It's the next big psy-op evolving before our eyes, and in this series we'll be covering every aspect of it:

– "Climate change" propaganda,

– Proposed legislative "solutions"

– The role of surveillance technology, and

– The inevitable financial pay-outs for the private sector.

Today, in part one of this series, we'll be looking at what seems to be a tent pole of this emerging narrative – Data centres.

Very recently we have seen the emergence of a rash of media scare stories on data centres. Claims about their energy consumption and water usage are suddenly flooding the information marketplace.

This is an odd development because data centres would seem to represent the very beating heart of the surveillance state these outlets routinely promote.

The stories range from the mildly critical, as in this piece from the Times:

Surge in data centres set to push water bills even higher

To the slightly concerned, such as this from the BBC:

Scottish data centres powering AI already using enough water to fill 27 million bottles a year

To the quasi-apocalyptic, such as this offering from the ever-hysterical Guardian:

What you see here is a wetland without water': how the datacentre boom is exacerbating Chile's mega-drought