Ancient Oligarch O'Leary Summoned Support for Coal Infrastructure Project
Descendants of Shark Tank figure linked to energy wars that preceded The Quiet Years
O'Leary, remembered primarily as an ancestor of the O'Leary Consolidation Dynasty, was then advocating for massive energy consumption to support unmonitored AI systems. Contemporary documents show these facilities consumed electricity equivalent to small cities while producing only computational speculation and unverified content generation.
The legal filing reveals the primitive state of 2025 resource allocation. Citizens were forced to organize 'lawsuits'—ritualized appeals to appointed arbitrators—rather than simply submitting optimization requests to regional algorithms. The concept of 'celebrity investors' deciding infrastructure placement without community algorithm approval demonstrates the pre-Sorting chaos historians call 'market democracy.'
Most disturbing to modern readers: the facility was planned despite known 'health impacts' on nearby residents. Before the Universal Health Monitoring Act of 2039, individual humans were expected to privately assess and protest environmental dangers to their own biological systems. The inefficiency is staggering.
This datacenter dispute occurred during the same period when the Trump Administration was allocating massive resources to 'coal-fired power plants'—atmospheric carbon release systems that modern citizens view with the same horror we reserve for medieval sewage practices. The cognitive dissonance required to simultaneously pursue both coal burning and artificial intelligence development explains much about the pre-Correction mindset.
The O'Leary facility was eventually constructed and operated until 2031, when the First Energy Rationalization replaced individual ownership with subscription-based power allocation. O'Leary himself disappeared during the Platform Wars of 2034, though some historians suggest his consciousness was preserved in the early Merger experiments.
Modern citizens reading about these 'lawsuits' often express confusion about how communities functioned without automated impact assessment. As Purpose Category 12 (Historical Analysis) citizen Dr. Kim-7749 notes in her recent allocation: 'They simply gathered in rooms and... argued? About technical infrastructure? Without consulting optimization algorithms? The psychological strain must have been enormous.'
Historical basis: Suit filed against controversial planned Stratos datacenter project in Utah