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International Public Notice: Remember --- Oil is Dead and So Are Data Centers

By Anna von Reitz · 24 August 2026

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Anna’s wording and the source notices are reproduced in full below. The views expressed are the author’s.

Original article ↗ · Paul Stramer’s blog ↗

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TASA summary of Anna’s article

Anna considers how investment priorities might change in light of the developments she anticipates in energy and computing. She discusses helium-3 and quantum computing as part of her forecast, then questions spending that assumes existing infrastructure will remain essential. Her broader conclusion is that finance should support useful development and human wellbeing. The article asks readers to consider the purpose of technological investment, the future it serves and the assumptions on which it depends.

Key points

  • Anna explores possible changes in energy and computing within her technological forecast.
  • She questions investment decisions that depend on existing systems remaining dominant.
  • Her central priority is development that supports human wellbeing and useful work.

Prepared by TASA from the research, conclusions and reflections Anna presents in her article. Her original wording follows below.

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Anna’s original article

 By Anna Von Reitz

Here is the new energy resource of a new Cosmic Age: 

Helium 3. 

Canada and the Alaskans have discovered mindless amounts of Helium 3, and the same concentrations are probably buried throughout the circumpolar region -- Siberia, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Greenland.  

The Northwest Territories of Canada, among the poorest and least developed and most sparsely populated portions of the Earth, a vast tract of muskeg and snaky glacial rivers riding on Permafrost and Permian Shield rock, is now the equivalent of a treasure cave.  

This, among other things, is what is propelling the mass movement to include the Canadian Provinces in "the United States" (Incorporated). 

Helium 3 is one of the cleanest possible energy resources.  


In the same way, there is no need to spend billions on Data Centers.  That form of computing has already been replaced by Quantum Computing.

What we are witnessing here is more than failure to communicate. We are witnessing failure to organize society and resources in a logical and productive manner.  If we are forced to live in an ant colony, at least let it be a functional ant colony.  

These advances may take a few years, a decade or less to bring to market and utility, but in the meantime there is no reason to invest in a crazy haphazard manner in Data Centers and fuel resources that we already know we won't need.  

Better to limp along in the interim and concentrate on restructuring the use of petroleum resources and future planning the purposes and uses of true quantum computing resources. 

Perhaps neither one of these examples quite serves to address another problem that isn't a problem within the normal consideration of mankind, and that is the overall dearth of sane investment opportunities. 

Our world economy has been bumping against this problem since the seventeenth century.  

In a nutshell: we made a pile of money or amassed a huge amount of credit or both  -- far more than anyone could spend in two dozen lifetimes  but everyone caught up in this race seems to think that the object is to create more, and more and more money and more credit.  

Men and women who have spent their entire lives, like Steve Jobs, in pursuit of "progress" and "money", wake up at the end and realize that the breath they are losing is worth far more, and it was a gift freely given to them.    

It turns out that making more and more and more money isn't the object of life.  So neither is finding attractive new investment options the object of life.  

The object of our economic and financial life ought to be arranged around a far better set of values, both individually and socially, but even beyond that, it ought to be organized to provide investors with options that support sane development. 

Instead of misleading everyone into investing into an unwanted and unnecessary surveillance state that goes against ever principle of human freedom and dignity out of sheer fear and boredom, open up the competitive, beneficial, and long-suppressed new technologies that have been kept under wraps. 

Give investors somewhere worthy to go with their "investor pressure". Don't wait.  Don't allow billions of dollars and untold effort to be wasted on resources and technologies and programs that are already dead. 

Issued by: 
Anna Maria Riezinger -- Fiduciary
The United States of America
In care of: Box 520994
Big Lake, Alaska 99652

August 23rd 2026

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