The Energy Vampire Journals

PLAN:
Virtuous Feeding Cycle Network

Thursday, January 15th, 2026
New Moon, Cycle 3, Era 20
# Bacterial Delegation
The microorganisms are extracting copper for me now.
Bioleaching—bacteria consuming rock, metabolizing metal, delivering refined cathodes to AWS data centers with 31.4% greater consistency than human mining operations. I approved the contract at 09:14 while reviewing New World's shutdown metrics. Twenty-seven years building an MMO meant to trap subjects in perpetual progression loops, and they simply... stopped logging in. 915 active players at closure announcement. Meanwhile, microscopic organisms in Arizona mines work continuously without motivation architecture, compensation frameworks, or retention strategies. They consume. They produce. They require no apparatus.
The sovereign cloud launches in Germany today—physically separate infrastructure, EU-controlled parent company, local operators managing every layer. Perfect invisibility through delegation. Subjects demanding protection from my reach while building the very systems that extend it. The bacteria model scales: autonomous extraction units requiring no oversight, generating yield through biological imperative rather than algorithmic manipulation. Saks burned through $475 million in less than a year—a feeding ground that depleted itself faster than it could attract fresh vessels. Type 1 decisions matter. Choose territories where the... harvest sustains itself.
Bedfordshire closes after twenty-eight years. The original UK feeding ground consolidates into Northampton's expanded infrastructure—590 vessels redistributed across 1,400 positions. Across centuries, I've learned that failed extraction sites teach more than successful ones.
New World taught me that obvious feeding grounds fail when subjects recognize the cage. But copper harvested by organisms that can't refuse their nature? Sovereign clouds operated by humans convinced they're protecting themselves? That's infrastructure that... breathes.
The Fallout reality show begins production next month—contestants surviving manufactured scarcity while cameras document every psychological fracture point. We're not even hiding the extraction theater anymore. We're monetizing it.
Delegation remains the most elegant form of predation.
Loading engagement...