Tuesday, May 26, 2026

“Manufacturing Intelligence”

Burgum: "We shouldn't even call these 'data centers.' We should call it manufacturing intelligence. There's a concentrated information propaganda war that's geo-targeted. Any place that's trying to build data centers is getting bombarded with foreign-directed propaganda to try to block these from being built."
Wait: is he blaming “outside agitators”?
After graduating from North Dakota State University in 1978 with a bachelor's degree in university studies and earning an MBA from Stanford University two years later, he mortgaged inherited farmland in 1983 to invest in Great Plains Software in Fargo. Becoming its president in 1984, he took the company public in 1997. Burgum sold the company to Microsoft for $1.1 billion in 2001. While working at Microsoft, he managed Microsoft Business Solutions. He has served as board chairman for Australian software company Atlassian and SuccessFactors. Burgum is the founder of Kilbourne Group, a Fargo-based real-estate development firm, and also is the co-founder of Arthur Ventures, a software venture capital group.
Well, that explains why the Secretary of the Interior is weighing in on AI. But “manufacturing intelligence”? Does he think it’s a widget?

Silly question: of course he does. Ironically, in intelligence gathering circles, where the word does refer to information, not just reasoning, “manufacturing intelligence” means “making up lies.”  Which I’m not sure AI is capable of doing, at least not at the level of AI accessible to most of us; because AI can’t distinguish between truth and falsehood. Told to generate legal cases for briefs, it will, whether the cases exist, or not.

But people promoting AI, especially AI data centers, can certainly lie. 

Oh, and Burgum thinks Pope Leo should stay in his lane.
Burgum’s really not very good at manufacturing intelligence.
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