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Apologies but we couldn’t help but want to post this photo that popped up when we were searching for more information about crypto mining data centers:
What we are unsure about is whether such parasites are the politicians, crypto investment firms, the data centers, or all of the above.
This article is a follow up to yesterday’s article (See Selis’ Crypto Dam?) about Kerr Dam and the proposed Polson data mining center. Its purpose is to provide you with additional information from our research as it pertains to Montana, the CSKT and Energy Keepers and their ties to crypto mining data centers.
Concerning the issue as to why we aren’t hearing much about the crypto mining subject in the traditional media, we came across this document included in the EKI lawsuit that perhaps partially explains the reason why US media aren’t reporting information about these crypto companies that are now running rampant:
It’s well known that Daines and Gianforte have worked together in the past, however it now is becoming apparent that their partnership has continued.
While Gianforte is taking care of Flathead Compact implementation and establishing a legislative infrastructure to protect data mining, Daines is faithfully helping to move the federal side of this forward.
The crypto legislation passed in the Montana legislature earlier this year and signed into law by Gianforte was titled as follows:
I don’t know about you, but just by its title, this legislature appears to have been developed for the purpose of hamstringing local governments from any attempts to protect themselves or at a minimum from offsetting the costs associated with the onslaught of crypto business that may be headed their way.
It may also be an attempt to neuter the Public Service Commission with respect the establishment of utility rates pertaining to crypto data centers, but have not researched this enough to know that for sure.
It also appears that this legislation may be an effort to maximize the profit margins of crypto investors, perhaps to the detriment of small local governments and of course, the people.
Is t possible that our “republican supermajority” legislature and governor are more interested in being crypto investor friendly than they are in making sure the interests of the people they represent are protected?
On the other side of the coin, Steve also has a job to do, and that consists of forging the federal pathway toward a very lucrative for some bitcoin / crypto currency utopian future.
We are not sure exactly when Daines gave this talk about Bitcoin and Blockchain, but it was posted to youtube four years ago:
Congressional Letter to EPA re: Digital Asset Mining
Less than a week after he announced the Polson Crypto Mining Data Center at his Economic Summit in June of 2022, Daines, along with 3 other Senators and 10 Representatives sent a letter to the EPA asking them to consider the benefits of Digital Asset Mining. Here’s a copy of it.
Crypto Mining, Digital Asset Mining and Data Centers in Montana
Below is a list of links to many of the articles we found during our research compiled on a one page document for your reference. It’s abundantly clear from some of these articles and also a reading of the complaint in the Energy Keepers Inc. lawsuit that the vast amounts of investment money being made available for these project is a feeding ground for corruption.
Just reading through the Energy Keepers complaint linked above is nauseating. How could anyone successfully navigate around the corruption that appears to be associated all of the affiliated llcs and shell corporations established to avoid transparency?
It almost makes Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) look like child’s play.
Senator Steve Daines on Facebook
Click on the photo below to see what some of the people on Facebook think of Daines support of crypto, and other things.
Daines has become a pretty powerful figure in DC, and he is loved by the corrupt organizations that he panders to in Montana including the GOP. However it seems that he may not be “loved” nearly as much by the people that are harmed by his failures.
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Unbelievable!
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You should be proud of and publicly recognized for your excellent research on this… and it’s likely just scratching the surface of the depths of corruption you are revealing; that Daines and Gianforte (and others) potentially seem to have their finger prints all over.
With EKI making money hand over fist (for the tribal members supposedly); why would the American taxpayers still be sending them monthly checks for their subsistence? MT and US entities have given them everything they need to be financially solvent. When does that become welfare to the residents of a “sovereign nation” making more than most Montanans? Most likely the majority of the tribal members aren’t seeing much if any of that money from EKI. So, who is?
You’re connecting all the dots for everyone to see. It might be time to call in the calvary and a really big excavator to get to the bottom of this “parasite” infested cesspool with FOIA’s on ALL the shell companies involved and financial records for the D & G money laundering scheme. There’s a lot of money flowing to certain individuals promoting the compact and how to fund their enterprises and ventures… instead of the people they were elected to represent.
From the 2020 US Federal District Court of MT document:
2. EKI is a federally-chartered corporation that is wholly owned by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation (“CSKT”), a treaty sovereign Indian Tribe established pursuant to Section 16 of the Indian Reorganization Act. EKI was chartered by the United States Department of the Interior pursuant to Section 17 of the Indian Reorganization Act. EKI is a colicensee of the Séliš Ksanka QÍispé Project. EKI’s principal place of business is on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana
GUNNER
“There are moral situations where it is immoral to say nothing and basely immoral to do nothing.”- A. W. Tozer
Perhaps Daines pushed the compact with his phony MONTANA WATER RIGHTS PROTECTION ACT because he saw that it would fit in perfectly with all of this crypto datamining centers garbage.
Private political clubs, the “parties” determine which people we are able to vote for in elections. The sooner we all realize that our key positions of leadership are determined for us and they are not in their positions of power to represent the people, but are there to protect and enrich big money interests, the better off we will be.
This is why it doesn’t matter if we have a republican legislature, a RINO or a Democrat governor can be very effective at neutering legislative session after legislative session.
We had a republican legislature when the compact was passed. It’s RINO makeup effectively gives us a federal driven agenda.
If our votes really matter at all, Montana needs to deal with its RINO problem. Is it possible to fix the Fitzpatrick legislation from nearly a decade ago that immortalized open primaries?
https://www.mtpr.org/montana-news/2015-03-18/montana-republicans-divided-over-open-primaries
http://laws.leg.mt.gov/legprd/LAW0203W$BSRV.ActionQuery?P_SESS=20151&P_BLTP_BILL_TYP_CD=HB&P_BILL_NO=454&P_BILL_DFT_NO=&P_CHPT_NO=&Z_ACTION=Find&P_ENTY_ID_SEQ2=&P_SBJT_SBJ_CD=&P_ENTY_ID_SEQ=
2015 was a good year for FitzAssHat. With the help of his faithful RINO’s he was also was able to get governor Bullock medicaid expansion and the ratification of the CSKT Compact.
Even with “term limits” the same bad actors that gave us the Flathead Water Compact in 2015 are still around causing even more damage to the people of Montana.
Here is some additional Information about water and power consumption by Data Centers:
Click to access data-centers-require-water-and-power.pdf
We are not convinced that the figures being provided by the United States or its controlled media are even close to the actual reality of data centers. For one reason it does not appear that anyone is discussing state and federal government data centers for government operations in the analysis or projections being made. Keep in mind that there is also the government spuing aspect of data centers that is being ignored. Thanks to George W. Bush, Congress and the Patriot Act, NSA is compiling vast amounts of communication data on American citizens including cell phone, email other communications. All that illegal and constitutional violating data has to be stored somewhere.
We always heard with the # of wolves to take the government’s figures and multiply them by a factor of 6 to get the real number.
It is highly likely that the estimates of water and power for data centers, as well as the number of data centers (public and private) are significantly understated so as to not raise public concerns.
Just think about the impact that these data centers must already be having on what is an already decaying electrical grid infrastructure.