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As the issue of “DATA CENTERS” becomes increasingly national my worry is that the nature of the conversation will become increasingly retarded as poorly informed community members enter the sausage-making process for local development to realize there’s not much they can do to stop what’s coming.

No one from Krambu was at the meeting last night in Bonner because why would they be? The community meeting they did appear at last month, hosted by the Friends of Two Rivers, was similarly non-obligatory, but Steve Wood understood the strategic benefit of putting a few crumbs of information out to the public. Hopefully “the public” understands it’s going to be up to them to educate themselves going forward.

Before I get to who was at last night’s meeting, let’s look at Newport, Washington, where Krambu is further along in the process of building their template for an environmentally friendly data center:

“In 2017 we developed some technology on the power and cooling side that was energy efficient and environmentally friendly,” Jank said. He said the technology allowed them to remove refrigerants and made the computers more energy efficient. “We got rid of waste.”

They were able to repurpose the heat from the computers. Steve Wood, former Ponderay Newsprint and Merkle Standard executive and now Krambu CEO, said the technology is the newest on the planet.

“We have been issued several patents,” Wood said, with additional patents filed.

“We partnered with Supermicro,” Wood said. Supermicro, Super Micro Computer, Inc., is a multibillion dollar global company that builds servers, storage systems and switches. Supermicro will be one of Krambu’s channel partners, he said, meaning they will help sell Krambu products.

The computers being built and located at the Newport site will be solving problems with Artificial Intelligence for clients, he said, using a computer network made up of 72 servers.

“These will be the highest performing computers in the world,” Wood said, using what is known as a 72-node cluster.

Missoula County officials at last night’s meeting confidently and proudly reminded those of us in the school cafeteria how they crafted a globally innovative provision to require data centers to use NEW, RENEWABLE energy for their computing infrastructure. My question was if the County officials had seen any indication that provision would be legally targeted with high-paid lawyers. While I got a non-answer answer local bureaucrats excel at providing, the question was more or less rhetorical, and that’s because companies like SUPERMICRO will have vastly more resources at their disposal than “the public” will.

For context, this comes from Supermicro’s Wikipedia page:

In September 2014, Supermicro moved its corporate headquarters to the former Mercury News headquarters in North San Jose, California, along Interstate 880, naming the campus Supermicro Green Computing Park. In 2017, the company completed a new 182,000 square-foot manufacturing building on the campus, which was designed to meet LEED gold certification. The company expanded its San Jose campus in September 2021 with a manufacturing facility for advanced storage and server equipment. Supermicro was reported to have 2,400 people working in San Jose.

In February 2025, Supermicro began building its third California-based manufacturing campus. The new campus is being developed with the intention to increase production of liquid-cooled services for data centers. The company produces a majority of its servers in California. Following a push for more state-side manufacturing by American President Donald Trump, Supermicro considered expanding server production in states like Mississippi and Texas. A few months later, in July 2025, Supermicro expressed its interest in expanding investment regarding manufacturing in Europe to meet artificial intelligence demand in the area.

In October 2025, Supermicro created a subsidiary focusing on American federal agencies, which would provide cloud-services and data center materials manufactured from its facilities in Silicon Valley, California.

One of my comments last night focused on the deplorable media landscape that exists, hence my retardation concerns. I mean, the irony of Supermicro moving into the former headquarters of the Mercury News is not lost on me.

When perennial Democrat candidate, Monica Tranel, made her comments about the Data Center, my re-dar (retard radar) alerted me to the hilarity of this “public defender”, who was recently busted for using AI to get a burglary charge dismissed, educating the room about a special Tariff we should all know about.

For a quick reminder about Tranel’s AI transgression, here’s the incident that inspired me to give her a specific shout-out:

A top attorney for the Office of Public Defender may have violated local artificial intelligence rules after the county attorney’s office discovered a case filing generated with AI.

Managing public defender Monica Tranel filed the motion Feb. 9 to dismiss a case about a local burglary, according to documents obtained by the Missoulian.

One week later, she asked the court to strike that document from the record after a county prosecutor suggested Tranel made the filing without properly disclosing the artificial intelligence use, or fact-checking its contents. She subsequently filed a corrected motion.

When Tranel said “Tariff”, it was clear many of the young people in attendance were immediately triggered. It was cute to see their fragile minds softly held by Tranel as she reassured them this wasn’t one of THOSE Tariffs, it was a really cool “large-load” Tariff, brought to you by the clown show currently running the Public Service Commission. Here’s the deets:

NorthWestern Energy recently filed an application with the Montana Public Service Commission (PSC) seeking approval of a new tariff aimed at governing how the utility serves large new or expanding electricity users, including data centers and other energy-intensive operations.

The proposal, submitted by NorthWestern Corp., would apply to customers with electric loads of 5 megawatts (MW) or greater, and it outlines contract requirements and service terms designed to manage the costs and operational demands of serving such large users while shielding existing customers from potential cost increases.

When Tranel told the room “large loads” meant 5MW loads or greater, my non-retarded buddy immediately turned to me and said, “then 4.9 MW Data Centers”. Sounds about right.

I’ll be writing more specifically about the PSC soon, but something about this proposal from Northwestern Energy makes me think that Tariff’ing large loads is just a PR move ahead of their MASSIVE merger with Black Hills Corps., which was announced last August:

NorthWestern Energy announced Tuesday it plans to merge with Black Hills Corp “to create a premier regional regulated electric and natural gas utility company” in a process expected to take 12 to 15 months and result in an enterprise valued at $15.4 billion.

The director of the Montana Public Service Commission said regulators will scrutinize the deal, and an energy watchdog group said the merger could be an improvement for clean energy compared to the “current stagnant utility.”

NorthWestern Energy is a monopoly utility that operates in Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska and serves 787,000 customers. It counts 413,400 electric and 214,500 natural gas customers in Montana.

The other notable person in the room last night was Tom Sergios, the Cognizant sellout I wrote about last week and who I immediately saw enjoying beer on the patio of Cranky Sam’s after posting my article. It’s important to enjoy the money you make in tech. I mean, why else compromise your morals, ethics, and soul for the child-fucking class?

May the odds be ever in their favor.

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Aaron Flint wasn’t happy being just a conservative radio talk show host. After convincing his audience that the only problem Montana has is Epstein-loving Democrats, no amount of inconvenient reality indicating otherwise will be allowed to derail the blimp of insanity this radio host has tied his political future to:

With a month to go before voting begins in the 2026 U.S. House primary election, Aaron Flint stood in a candidate-crowded gymnasium in Superior firing off some of his talk radio hits: Epstein, trans athletes, immigration.

“The Montana Democrat Party,” the presumptive Republican frontrunner told the audience, “is tragically the party of Epstein.”

Flint, who hosts the “Montana Talks” radio program, insisted there was money from the dead celebrity pedophile to be “given back,” without suggesting who such money might be given to. The tendons in his neck strained with intensity as he spoke. Flint, 46, is a military veteran with a trim physique and neat haircut that would still pass Army grooming standards. His black T-shirt featured a chalk-white characterization of the American flag in the shape of Montana punctuated by “AF.”

When Aaron Flint told the Montana Free Press that the Montana Democratic Party “is tragically the party of Epstein” it was before Melania Trump launched her weird press conference. It was also before Trump threatened to destroy an entire civilization, dropped an F-bomb before praising Allah on Easter, and then posted the latest AI slop depicting himself as Jesus. So, with this context in mind, who is going to be the real “Panican” in this election?

I didn’t start writing publicly 16 years ago to elect politicians or support one political party over another, so when I started researching the Epstein connections to Big Sky Country at the beginning of this year what I found was published, for free, without any consideration for party affiliation. That’s what truth-seeking members of the media should be doing.

Aaron Flint isn’t a member of the media anymore, he’s a politician shilling for the “conservative” deep pockets trying to keep the deeply fractured Republican party from totally self-destructing in Montana. Flint’s announcement was highly coordinated and his only opponent, Dr. Al, is most likely a fake candidate who’s political run allows Aaron to keep his primary money, something candidate Brian Schweitzer was said to have done during a run for Governor.

Here’s a question worth asking: what will the Freedom Caucus wing of the Montana Republican Party do when Aaron Flint inevitably wins the primary? Will they mindlessly vote for this MAGA Trump-puppet following orders for Oracle Greg and Empty-Hat Austin, or is there enough independent thought within the Freedom Caucus to make Flint’s transition to political puppet a little bit more rocky than he’s expecting?

Some of this depends on who Democrats choose in the primary, so I’ll be making the case soon about which Democrat candidate I think will give Aaron Flint his stiffest competition. Another variable Aaron Flint should be mindful of is the Turning Point problem, since researchers like me aren’t shy about asking WHY some curious Turning Point characters showed up in Montana just one month after Charlie Kirk was assassinated.

Here’s another problem: if Trump’s war for Israel escalates to a ground invasion, Mr. Veteran, Aaron Flint, is going to have a tough time maintaining this rhetorical bullshit, regardless of how many breakfasts his voice has been a part of:

“You’re with them at their breakfast table every morning, in their pickup. You’re in the combine cab with them. And they really get to know you, not only what you think about the issues, but they get to know you as a person,” Flint said.

Listeners with their kids off to school and windows rolled up find in Flint a voice that’s unabashed about saying the quiet parts — opinions they might think twice before sharing at work, or in church — out loud. Like President Donald Trump, Flint amplifies normally private doubts and fears and disputes about transgender people, or vaccines, or immigrants, while providing a safe haven for conservative politicians to demonize Democrats.

Flint has brought that same bullhorn to his campaign.

“Donald Trump is doing a great job, but radical politicians like AOC, Mamdani and Bernie, they’ve taken over Washington. But here’s the deal — they’re coming for Montana next. Sanctuary cities, boys in girls’ sports, public lands being fenced off, locals being priced out, and our way of life being pushed aside,” Flint said in the campaign video that served as his campaign’s curtain raiser.

Locals being priced out? Then why does Gianforte collaborate with Ellie Boldman on housing? Public lands fenced off? Uh, check your Governor, bro. And don’t get me started on the “sanctuary city” branding that triggered liberal lawyers in Helena for the well-laid trap they walked into so that Empty Hat Austin can look strong by putting them in their place.

Once upon a time conservatives valued things like the Constitution, and privacy, and helping the AMERICAN workforce. Now they’re members of the Peter Thiel party where public money paves the way to a total panopticon as Oracle casually fires 30,000 workers amidst massive corporate profits.

For those paying attention to how American workers feel about being squeezed tighter and tighter and tighter, I guarantee you this is just the beginning:

One surefire reality of politics in 2026 is that candidates have to be responsive to billionaires, so let me give Aaron Flint one final warning about his new career trajectory: when I agreed with Jeff Bezos in 2024 it was because the media had become so fucking odious that I couldn’t help celebrating Bezos’ smackdown of his media property. This quote from Bezos, sadly, still resonates:

In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress. But in this year’s Gallup poll, we have managed to fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working.

Remember this sentiment, Aaron, and remember it wasn’t just the liberal director of United Way I told you about in that DM.

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To the casual observer, this relatively new housing complex at 243 South 6th Street West represents one small step toward addressing Missoula’s housing crisis. To me, it represents everything I have come to hate about my father and the soulless aesthetic of suburban growth I thought I was leaving behind when I moved here 26 years ago.

Tom Mateer was born in Spokane in August of 1955. My Grandpa, like many men of his generation, had fought in the war and developed a drinking problem, while my Grandma was your average homemaker who had no reason to think Nazis were giving her miscarriages with Thalidomide. Like many women of her generation taking “medication” during the 50’s and 60s to help with nausea, the Thalidomide scandal would undermine her ability to start a healthy family:

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, thalidomide was prescribed to women in 46 countries who were pregnant or who subsequently became pregnant, and consequently resulted in the “biggest anthropogenic medical disaster ever,” with more than 10,000 children born with a range of severe deformities, such as phocomelia, as well as thousands of miscarriages.

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Thalidomide was first developed as a tranquilizer by Swiss pharmaceutical company Ciba in 1953. In 1954, Ciba abandoned the product, and it was acquired by German pharmaceutical company Chemie Grünenthal. The company had been established by Hermann Wirtz Sr, a Nazi Party member, after World War II as a subsidiary of the family’s Mäurer & Wirtz company. The company’s initial aim was to develop antibiotics for which there was an urgent market need.

While the malignant seeds of Big Pharma were taking root, Tom grew up, graduated high school, then married into a family who’s patriarch, Robert Ditton, worked in the telecommunication business. After Tom moved his young family to Seattle in pursuit of better corporate opportunities, Grandpa crashed his airplane and died.

While my family moved around a handful of times in the Seattle area, it was our move to the suburbs of Kansas City, so Tom could take a job with Sprint, that really solidified my Daddy issues. Kids of my generation inherently knew something wasn’t right with the cookie-cutter houses built to accommodate corporate expansion, and if we didn’t, our culture had the faces of lost kids on milk cartons to remind us.

For more context on Tom Mateer and his business relationships with ATG and Strong Bridge, you can visit his website.

The “disruptive change” that made Tom Stergios lots of tech money ended up transforming ATG into ATG-Cognizant, then ATG-Cognizant got into bed with Palantir in February, which I covered in Friday’s post about no one coming to save us:

Cognizant announced a strategic partnership with Palantir Technologies Inc. to accelerate AI-driven modernization across healthcare and enterprise operations. As part of the collaboration, Cognizant will leverage Palantir Foundry and Palantir Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) to advance AI integration within its TriZetto healthcare business, while jointly pursuing broader enterprise AI transformation opportunities for clients across industries.

The other company my Daddy promotes his relationship with, Strong Bridge, is proud of its work with NASA, the space organization that just celebrated the supposed return of astronauts from its trip around the moon.

For over two decades, Strongbridge has been at the forefront of technological innovation, driven by a commitment to improve the lives of American citizens every day. Founded as a custom software engineering company, Strongbridge has evolved into a recognized leader in artificial intelligence, machine learning, low-code development, and data strategy. Our journey reflects a steadfast dedication to harnessing the full potential of information technology investments across the federal government.

Our legacy of service is rooted in firsthand experience with public service. Our CEO, Jeff Powell, began his career in the U.S. Air Force and later supported critical national missions at NASA Headquarters and the Goddard Space Flight Center. That early exposure to government operations and the impact of technology on mission outcomes shaped the values that still guide Strongbridge today. As the company has grown, we’ve extended our support across civilian and defense agencies, consistently adapting to meet the evolving needs of our clients.

While Tom’s business pals were playing space rockets and selling out their business platforms to the evil tech giants now fighting WWIII for Israel, the First Presbyterian Church was trying to figure out what to do with their valuable land, which a local cabal of do-gooders was eyeing for subsidized housing.

With the help of Tom’s corporate negotiating skills, the elders in the church who wanted to build a covered skywalk were politely told to kick rocks so that MMW architects, like Colin Lane, could push their ugly density housing agenda for the city gentrifiers who dominate Missoula’s City Council. And that’s what happened.

To further contextualize why this process smacks of everything I’ve been working to expose about local corruption, the picture below is credited to Martin Kidston, the former Democrat spokesperson now LARP’ing as a reporter so he can target opponents of City tax policy, like me. Also visible in the picture below is the bank financing the Hogan House project, Stockman’s Bank, a known abuser of Tax Increment Financing.

MMW Architects have an amazing ability to get public money to perpetuate their ugly aesthetic all around Missoula because their “do-gooder” architects, like Colin Lane and the guy I’m familiar with, John Wells, the architect who designed the new Poverello Center, know how to grease the wheels of Democrat control.

And I know how to correlate their political donations with that ability to get public money. Just ask John, Burt, Brent, Todd, or Ellie and they will tell you how obnoxiously observant I can be.

To finish up this post, which I’m writing on a Sunday morning while my Daddy is attending worship services at the church that helped target me, here are two supportive comments for the Hogan House project, and one critical comment. I’ll provide the missing context of the “support” after the quotes:

Sorry, Doc, you’re not the kind of virtue-signaling supporter of refugees, like Doug Odegaard is, and you’re not a New York transplant like Danny Tenenbaum, sneaking into churches like a Jewish Don Lemon while lending his support to Governor Gianforte for housing policies.

It’s disappointing to continue learning new aspects of how the people closest to me have directly contributed to what I’ve gone through these last few years of personal hell, but I still have enough of my marbles to know that Daddy’s effort to coerce me into declaring bankruptcy and shutting down this blog was one of the stupidest things he’s ever considered in that vaccinated brain of his.

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Nine months before the FBI arrested Courtney Williams, the punk-ass bitch pictured above at the podium celebrated the opening of a “stand-alone” FBI office in New Zealand where taxpayer-funded FBI agents will work on the following “joint” efforts:

Since opening an office in a foreign country where Missoula’s sister city is located to combat things like “child exploitation”, how many arrests have been made in connection to the Epstein Files by the FBI in America? I guess they’re too busy shutting down a whistleblower who helped Seth Harp write this book:

Courtney Williams, 40, of Wagram, North Carolina, was indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with violating the Espionage Act in connection to the alleged transmission of classified national defense information to the journalist in violation of federal law.

“Let this serve as a message to any would-be leakers: we’re working these cases, and we’re making arrests,” FBI Director Kash Patel posted on X.

While I’m not intending this to be racist, Kash Patel looks a lot like the preferred demographic for H-1B visas I imagine Oracle might eye-balling after ending the paid employment of 30,000 people. Unsurprisingly, not everyone is happy about this callous corporate move:

The Ellison Father/Son duo, along with tech-bros like Thiel, Altman, and Musk, are positioning themselves and their corporate leviathan’s to control everyone, everywhere, all of the time. That is what THEY are doing at meetups like Bilderberg and the notorious Sun Valley conference, where media activists have been going to protest for years (including a supportive ZoomChron reader).

And what are we doing? At best, letting it happen; at worst, eagerly handing over the keys to the soul-eaters who will NEVER have enough.

When Greg Gianforte sold his company to Oracle he was just following a well-established pattern mirrored by Tom Stergios and ATG-Cognizant, the Tom who employed my Daddy, Tom Mateer.

To see a tech-Tom in his natural, disgusting environment–along with Governor Gianforte AND Seth Bodnar–here’s a picture that embodies how nicely Stergios landed after fully selling out to Cognizant:

Nearly one year after leaving ATG Cognizant, Missoula tech executive Tom Stergios has come full circle. With the launch of his new venture, Craton Consulting, Stergios and his colleagues at The Whole Group, an affiliated company, now share an office on the second floor of Missoula College – occupying the same space where ATG started the groundbreaking Aim Higher program in 2018. Developed in partnership with the University of Montana, Aim Higher trained transitioning workers from fields like logging and food service to become technology consultants in just 12 weeks.

For Stergios, the former classroom is an auspicious location to pursue the next phase of his two-part vision – bringing high-paying tech jobs to Montana and helping hardworking people across the state find onramps to satisfying careers.

It’s not enough for Tom Stergios to make bank opening the back door so Cognizant can get fucked by Palantir like a nimble twink in a hot-tub, no, he wants to go TEACH THE YOUTH how to be a part of this technocratic circle-jerk like some creep on Roblox juicing the algorithm to up-estimate the age ranges of children so they can direct message.

If you don’t understand what we’re up against, this February blurb from the fornication report between Cognizant and Palantir spells it out in the multi-syllabic verbiage of the psychopath class:

Cognizant announced a strategic partnership with Palantir Technologies Inc. to accelerate AI-driven modernization across healthcare and enterprise operations. As part of the collaboration, Cognizant will leverage Palantir Foundry and Palantir Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) to advance AI integration within its TriZetto healthcare business, while jointly pursuing broader enterprise AI transformation opportunities for clients across industries.

Are we at the point of Vidkun Quisling or Vichy France? While my Daddy is a fan of history, he’s also a consummate reader of science fiction, so considering what H.G. Wells and those Fabian Fags were up, or the reading list of Jack Parsons, I’ll instead quote one of my former favorites writers, Philip K. Dick:

“The empire never ended.”

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Did you know today is “local news day”? If not, that’s funny, since local news people are supposed to be helping you know about what’s going in your community, which is why John Adams is promoting local news day with help from the Headwaters Foundation and the Montana Newspaper Association.

Local News Day is a national day of action on April 9 that’s connecting communities with trusted local news. The mission is simple: reconnect people to trusted local outlets, empower newsrooms to grow, and spark a national movement that sustains local news for generations.

When I got to the “Local News Day partners” part of the “local news” article promoting “local news day” from a “news” source that omitted the inconvenient fact that projectiles were thrown at legislators by Zooey Zephyr supporters three years ago, I had to laugh. Of course the quiet money of the Headwaters Foundation would be involved, a foundation I have dutifully tracked over the years after they went dark, then reemerged in 2018.

The other local news day partner, the Montana Newspaper Association, includes newspapers like the Missoulian, which recently sent out David Erickson to investigate a restaurant group after his AMAZING breaking story about the terrible sadness of Taco Sano employees laboring under an evil boss who refused to allow them to politicize their workplace with anti-ICE propaganda.

In similar fashion, Erickson wrote LOTS of words about the Pangea Group recently in what I consider a hit piece against Scott Billadeau, the outgoing co-owner who once publicly criticized the now-discredited pandemic policies pushed on the public by media outlets like Lee Enterprises.

When I read a hardcopy of the article at a local coffee shop it was clear to me how the guy attempting to takeover ownership of Pangea, Kyle Riggs, is benefiting from this “news coverage”, which features his mommy, Marilyn, and HER lawsuit against Scott Billadeau. Curious for more context on Kyle Riggs I consulted his Facebook page, which highlights his past work for Paws Up Ranch, where the alleged sister-rapist, Sam Altman, was hanging with his tech-pals last June.

While David Erickson writes on behalf of sommeliers and social justice taco makers (and sometimes steals credit for my work), I break stories about retiring Detectives named Guy Baker, resigning Chamber of Commerce presidents, shady alpha condo developers named Aaron Wagner, and a pattern of deaths some speculate could be serial in nature.

I even write about the Homeless Industrial Complex and the threat of Sigil Kult WITHOUT getting paid by the Discovery Institute, like these two assholes.

Does it frustrate me to see grifters everywhere? Yes. Do I file butthurt reports on myself to cope? Yes. Does it work? Not really, hence my use of AI to make images like this one about the kind of people who SAY local stuff matters, but then flex like the petty gatekeepers that they are.

I’m going to end today’s post with a story I heard from someone living unconventionally in the woods near the area where a corpse was found last November, a corpse that STILL has not been publicly identified, despite my attempts to ask WHO DIED? A cop?

The person I spoke with said yes, the person who died last November was a police officer, and he died while in pursuit of a suspect. It was during this pursuit that the police officer, who was going up steep, mountainous terrain, slipped and fell to his death.

I don’t know if this is true, but it’s the second person who has suggested that the unnamed dead person was a cop, and with local authorities refusing to respond to my email inquiries, I’m leaning toward believing the gist of this alleged scenario (I’m withholding some details regarding what I was told as I keep digging on this story).

If you appreciate my local news on this local news day, please consider donating to Travis’ Impact Fund (TIF), or come down the Missoula County Courthouse at noon today and say hi. I’m tentatively planning on tabling with my puppet candidate for Sheriff, Pirate Booty, from noon to around 2pm. And stay tuned for more local reporting on the Fireweed scandal, which I’m still looking into because even seasoned veterans of political shenanigans seem confused about this one.

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