A slew of people including Musk, Vance, Curtis Yarvin, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen and a few other VC billionares are trying to break up the US into nation states that they call network-states. Think of Cyberpunk with a heavy dose of Snow Crash. It's a completely authoritarian agenda. While I understand this sounds like conspiracy, Andreessen quite literally has a book called "The Network State" and Yarvin has blogged about this extensively.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no&feature=youtu.be
https://www.vcinfodocs.com/what-is-the-network-state
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23373795/curtis-yarv...
https://www.thenerdreich.com/the-network-state-coup-is-happe...