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Ultimately, the cloud and AI industries are about robbing you of computing power and selling it back at exorbitant rents.
Dust to data centers: The year AI tech giants, and billions in debt, began remaking the American landscape
cnbc.comBig Tech is remaking the U.S. map into an AI empire — kingdom-scale data centers, unprecedented debt, power constraints, and a near-religious belief in scaling.
The Top 10 Reasons Data Centers Must be Stopped
While AI data centers enrich the Big Tech elite, our water, climate, and communities pay the price. Our leaders must act.
AI's debt colony | @mcclowes
In 1528, the Welser banking family of Augsburg struck a deal with Emperor Charles V: in exchange for debts the Emperor couldn't repay, they'd receive the Province of Venezuela to colonise and exploit. They called it Klein-Venedig — Little Venice. It lasted eighteen years, and it's one of the most instructive failures in colonial history.
Propellant. — ethanmarcotte.com
We cannot separate the everyday use of “AI” platforms from their use in death and war.