The thing with the data centers is that the goal is entirely different from anything we've been told.

The key is that Google is implementing a system that allows people to get the information they're after directly from them rather than clicking theough to a website. That's undermining ad revenue, which not only threatens the existence of the websites but threatens Google's existing ad-based business model.

So it can only be the case that they're pivoting to a new business model.

And the key to that is the data centers.

Their goal, I grow more certain nearly every day, is to effectively privatize the internet by driving independent sites out of business, so that they (and their handful of more or less equally wealthy and powerful competitors) become the only source for all of that data they've already stolen.