{"slug": "data-centre-slumlord", "title": "Data Centre Slumlord", "summary": "A new satirical management game, Data Centre Slumlord, casts players as the CEO of Geriatric Grid Holdings, a hyperscale AI infrastructure company, and challenges them to build data centres while managing water, power, and community backlash. The game, described as a 'Geriatric Games Corporate Mismanagement RPG,' features eight board advisors including Elon, Jeff, and Satya, and includes mechanics for protests, fines, and climate disasters. It is available now, with the goal of building ten profitable data centres without collapsing the grid or public patience.", "body_md": "# Data Centre Slumlord\n\nDATA CENTRE SLUMLORD\n\n*A Geriatric Games Corporate Mismanagement RPG*\n\nBuild the cloud. Drain the town. Blame the contractor. Survive the quarter.\n\nYou are the newly appointed CEO of Geriatric Grid Holdings, a hyperscale AI infrastructure company with unlimited ambition, limited ethics, and several urgently worded emails from the water authority.\n\nBuild data centres across a live world map. Chase compute. Court investors. Keep the lights on. Try not to destroy too many communities before your market cap reaches escape velocity.\n\nBut every new server campus needs land, water, power, permits, workers, and somewhere politically vulnerable to put the cooling towers.\n\nYour board is not helping.\n\nElon wants a private power grid. Jeff has found “underused” public land. Mark has located another aquifer. Satya wants to “support” your independence by acquiring it. Sam has promised investors a breakthrough that requires several more power stations. Alex has paperwork that should not exist. Larry wants cameras everywhere. Sundar wants to rebrand the drought.\n\nMeanwhile, citizens are protesting, engineers are unionising, regulators are issuing fines, floods are hitting transformers, the grid is collapsing, and your CFO has quietly left through the fire exit.\n\n## Features\n\n- Build and manage hyperscale data centres on a world map\n- Balance revenue, debt, expenses, investor confidence, and market cap\n- Manage water, grid capacity, worker morale, public trust, legal heat, and public anger\n- Eight animated blocky board advisors with speech bubbles, moods, trust, favours, and chaotic requests\n- Dynamic AI Director that reacts to how badly you are running the company\n- Citizens, mayors, hydrologists, workers, journalists, and activists who remember your decisions\n- Protests, blockades, government fines, fires, blackouts, floods, heatwaves, and climate occupations\n- Build site traits such as Aquifer Drainer, Grid Vampire, Protest Magnet, and Government Protected\n- Unlock CEO skills including Spin Doctor, Infrastructure Goblin, Political Operator, and Human Resources Mirage\n- Relaxing 8-bit corporate music while everything falls apart\n- Save your empire locally, then return to the consequences later\n\n## Can You Win?\n\nBuild ten profitable data centres. Keep cash above zero. Keep investors convinced. Keep the grid, water table, workforce, and public patience from collapsing.\n\nOr become a cautionary documentary.\n\nDATA CENTRE SLUMLORDThe future runs on someone else’s water.\n\n| Published | 23 minutes ago |\n| Status |\n|", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/data-centre-slumlord", "canonical_source": "https://binary-mirror.itch.io/data-centre-slumlord", "published_at": "2026-08-25 01:02:16+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-25 01:12:48.406075+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure", "ai-ethics", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Geriatric Grid Holdings", "Data Centre Slumlord", "Elon Musk", "Jeff Bezos", "Mark Zuckerberg", "Satya Nadella", "Sam Altman", "Alex Karp"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/data-centre-slumlord", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/data-centre-slumlord.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/data-centre-slumlord.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/data-centre-slumlord.jsonld"}}