They did not ask permission.
They filed a permit under a name you have never heard
at an address in Delaware that houses ten thousand companies.
They broke ground on a Tuesday.
And your mayor signed an NDA and cannot tell you who moved in.

A windowless fortress appeared where the cornfield used to stand
Project Raven filed the paperwork – no one knew who owned the land
The shell was born in Delaware at twelve-oh-nine North Orange Street
A trillion dollar appetite disguised as empty concrete
They promised you the tax base and they promised you the jobs
While the grid was being quietly annexed by corporate mobs
Five million gallons every day consumed before the dawn
Your aquifer was on the menu and the fine print carried on

It does not sleep – it does not stop – it runs on what you own
It feeds on every kilowatt and every drop of water known
The hum began at twenty hertz – too low for you to name
But your body felt the frequency and nothing stayed the same

GRID VAMPIRES! DRAINING WHAT YOU BUILT!
GRID VAMPIRES! BLEEDING WITHOUT GUILT!
THEY TOOK THE WATER – SPIKED THE BILL – AND CALLED IT PROGRESS MADE!
GRID VAMPIRES! YOUR HOME EQUITY PAID!
GRID VAMPIRES! YOUR MAYOR IS AFRAID!
THE NDA WAS SIGNED BEFORE YOU KNEW THE DEAL WAS LAID!

The Granbury cluster documented ear fluid and the pain
vibroacoustic disease – the clinical name for what they called insane
The twenty-hertz infrasound passed through your bedroom wall at night
The Piezo1 receptor fires and nothing feels quite right
The heat plume altered micro-climates – trees began to wilt
The property assessor noted twenty-five percent of what you built
Five hundred miles of fiber adds five milliseconds to the stream
The latency was never real – the proximity was a scheme

It does not sleep – it does not stop – it runs on what you own
It feeds on every kilowatt and every drop of water known
The hum began at twenty hertz – too low for you to name
But your body felt the frequency and nothing stayed the same

Project Raven Honey Badger Acacia filed the shell!
Twelve oh nine North Orange Street the Delaware black hole well!
The NDA your mayor signed and will not speak to you!
THE CONSTITUENT KILL SWITCH LET THE CORPORATE AGENDA THROUGH!
Four month window locked the deal before the public knew!
The baseload lie the coal plant stays online to feed the beast!
YOUR UTILITY BILL IS A WAR TAX PAID TO FUND THE FEAST!
Festus voted out the council that signed with the machine!
ONE TOWN SAID NO AND THAT IS WHERE REVOLTS CONVENE!

Let the record show.
The beige box across from the playground is not a warehouse.
And it paid no local school taxes.
The desert was available.

The biometric perimeter went up around the block
K-rated fences anti-ram barriers and a private army on the clock
The no-fly zone was filed above the homes across the street
The AI panopticon baselining every neighbor that they meet
But Festus found the answer when they threw the council out
And Prince William County put the taxes into escrow with a shout
The acoustic network mapped the hum with open source
And the thermal drone proved the heat island without recourse

GRID VAMPIRES! DRAINING WHAT YOU BUILT!
GRID VAMPIRES! BLEEDING WITHOUT GUILT!
THEY TOOK THE WATER – SPIKED THE BILL!
AND CALLED IT PROGRESS MADE!
GRID VAMPIRES! YOUR HOME EQUITY PAID!
GRID VAMPIRES! YOUR MAYOR IS AFRAID!
THE NDA WAS SIGNED BEFORE YOU KNEW THE DEAL WAS LAID!
YOUR BACKYARD IS THEIR HEAT SINK AND YOUR BILL FUNDS THE RAID!

Your taxes built the grid.
Your water fills the cooling tower.
Your sleep funds the quarterly earnings report.
The desert was available.
They built it next to you on purpose.
The siege is already underway.