Eve is here. If this White House data center theory is correct, it represents a clear US emulation of a hyper-militarized (and completely paranoid out of pent-up hatred) Israel. In other words, it is part of a growing commitment to aggression.
That being said, the United States has had command bunkers for a long time, some more serious than this. Visit the West Virginia resort of Greenbrier for a tour of the Cold War-era nuclear and secure government headquarters. There was a barracks with bunk beds for each senator. Each was allowed to bring one assistant. It contained state-of-the-art medical supplies for all government officials scheduled to get married there (I must confess that I cannot remember who in the administration other than the President, Vice President, and Secretary of Defense was entitled to that protection). Knowledgeable readers will correct me, but I also have the impression that this nuclear hideout was unknown to the public at the time.
Now, Mr. Neuberger is correct in suggesting that this data center/safe house was indeed being built during the Trump era, and that security against internal attacks was one of the design goals. But old nuclear bunkers would also serve that purpose.
A lot has happened since the season started and there are a lot of fronts to catch up on. Let’s start with this one, Donald Trump’s “Ballroom.”
Is he only building banquet halls? I’m afraid not.
dray documents
Drey Dossier is an investigative reporting project run by Audrey Henson (Audrey → “Drey”). This is my first exposure to Henson, but her YouTube channel has 66,000 subscribers, her TikTok feed has around 135,000 followers, and her Substack is doing really well with 59,000 subscribers. For more information about her career, please see her LinkedIn profile.
I can’t speak to the rest of her work, but I think she’s on solid ground when it comes to her ballroom analysis. There’s meat on those bones.
Not the White House “Ballroom”
For her complete information, watch the video below or read the article on her Substack site.
Listen and click to learn more about Ballroom Projects. There are many of them:
From the contractor — Clark Construction, which lists sensitive data centers on its projects, to Shalom Baranes, the architect who designed the Pentagon’s post-9/11 power grid enhancement project — she is working with Potomac Electric Power Co. (PEPCO) to replace 45-year-old power lines and states (I have not been able to verify) that it is increasing the area’s power capacity by 500 percent along with the water — increasing DC Water’s spending by $300 million and increasing PEPCO’s spending, as well as urgently requesting funding agencies to relocate water infrastructure and make major water upgrades near the East Wing. For example, Carrier may donate its latest product, the Carrier Quantum Leap product, a “comprehensive suite of innovative, energy-efficient solutions for data center thermal management.” Other companies may donate important products as well. For example, Caterpillar makes generators for heavy industry. high-tech and networking companies such as Palantir, Google, Booz Allen, and Amazon; Blackstone is deeply involved in large-scale power infrastructure in the DC region. The presence of caissons on the property, structures used to work deep underground, and even President Trump’s involvement in military designs for national security (she says).
Read the article for more details. This is an interesting work. Note the similarities with the Jerusalem data center. The data center is about the same size and cost as the White House’s “banquet hall,” measuring approximately 90,000 square feet and costing more than $300 million. The Jerusalem facility is 50 feet underground. Look at the size of the hole Trump dug under the dance floor.
what and why
This leads to the bigger question of what and why. Henson explains what it’s all about (see below). We can’t help but be surprised as to why.
I’ll quote from the end of the video (emphasis mine):
Now, what does this actually mean? Well, I think we should go back to the underground data center in Jerusalem. Because if you understand why Israel built an underground data center, you might understand why Trump is building one here. Reportedly. probably. In my opinion.
So Israel built these facilities for something called Project Nimbus, which is a government cloud infrastructure. You’ve seen what this looks like in practice, right? So the AI systems, targeting systems, surveillance infrastructure, and operational decisions that Israel uses in Gaza are all running on this underground data center network.
So what we’re talking about is a complete AI takeover, military operations, intelligence gathering, government AI, information systems like banks, control of critical infrastructure, everything that keeps the country running. And because we needed it to survive, we built it nine stories underground. Not only to survive power outages and cyber attacks, but also to survive war. In other words, it needed it to withstand missile attacks and keep running no matter what happened on the ground.
Because when the entire government is powered by an AI system, it becomes the brain of the country. And we must protect our country’s brains with thick skulls.
That’s what data sovereignty looks like. That is the continuation of the government. And that’s what AI warfare infrastructure actually looks like.
And I’m focused on Project Stargate, which was announced on January 21, 2025, President Trump’s first day in office. And Larry Ellison goes on and on about this $500 billion AI infrastructure that will save governments and cure cancer. But all these great ideas about AI need a home.
That’s why I believe that if infrastructure is part of the executive branch of the president, it has to be classified, it has to be protected, it has to be exempt from oversight and it has to be directly accessible to the president, especially in the White House.
And lest we forget, the East Wing is located directly above the PEOC bunker, which is the Presidential Emergency Operations Center. It is five stories deep and staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week by military offices. By destroying the entire east wing, they removed all structures blocking access to that bunker. And now we can scale it and dig deeper or integrate new infrastructure as needed.
Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, executive privileges cover everything. I mean, think about it.
The president controls what is disclosed and what is not disclosed. So this is what a government would look like, with all its powers consolidated under executive control, in a facility that can withstand anything that happens, that Congress cannot audit, and that is run by AI.
And look, I’m sure they’ll build a banquet hall on top of it. You know, they host state dinners and take pictures with world leaders in gowns and tuxedos, and they probably look amazing. But the ballroom is not a project, so don’t joke about what it was actually built for. The ballroom is a lid.
In other words, that “something” could be an AI data center that could run an entire country, yes, an entire country, from a war-hardened bunker in the White House.
Protection from whom?
But the “why” is the question. I mean, why keep this a secret?
So what if Henson is right about what our rulers are doing? If they’re doing it, China definitely knows. And eventually all the nations that hate us will know. On top of that, you would expect a responsible military (Trump has said his military involvement is real) to consider this kind of construction as part of their job.
If that’s true, why keep this building a secret from the American public? What about Alex Karp’s fear and aggression? Excessive secrecy? Or will something worse happen?
Ask me a question. What would a massive Palantir-powered data center do once it was connected to all of our infrastructure, every part of our digital selves? What is its goal? What do our newly minted masters, teal-powered souls, have in mind for us next? To protect us from enemies outside and dangers within, a rebellious and watched population whose lives are only getting worse.
“This is what data sovereignty looks like,” Henson says above. “That’s government continuity. And that’s what AI warfare infrastructure actually looks like.”
Continuity of government — what’s at stake? If the only threat is from outside, why lie?
I don’t have an answer, but I fully support that question.
