Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
The linked article gives alot more information about the impact of data centers on local municipalities. A few items to note: One 100 word query on AI uses the equivalent of a bottle of water and that overall usage estimates far exceed the three billion gallons noted in the article. There are plenty of alternatives to cooling outside of the water from the Great Lakes: recycled water, closed loop cooling (reusing the same water), air cooling and immersion cooling which is more expensive but uses fractions of water. The data is out there for Illinois to look at and as… Read more »