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Meta Left its own Silicon Valley Community Stranded for the AI Boom

How a stalled megaproject turned housing, services, and civic repair into contingent promises of tech capital
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Will the Supreme Court Enable a New Era of Executive and Monopoly Power?
How a fight over FTC removal power could reshape federal control over energy, infrastructure, and the firms building the AI economy
 • Justin Kollar
The State Legislative Battle Over AI Infrastructure
Over 548 state data center bills from 2024 to 2026 reveal a contested shift from attraction to accountability, but with little to show yet
 • Justin Kollar
Beyond the Boom and Bust—the Horizon of Consolidation and the Coming Scramble for AI Infrastructure
A new ownership layer is being constructed over AI's physical substrate before smaller players are forced to sell
 • Justin Kollar
Fossil AI II—Petrodollars and the AI Infrastructure Boom
How Gulf oil wealth is funding the global artificial intelligence expansion while exposing the physical vulnerabilities of the digital age
 • Justin Kollar
The United States in Venezuela II—How to Sabotage an Oil State
How outsourcing Venezuela’s technological infrastructure established the blueprint for weaponized interdependence
 • Justin Kollar
The United States in Venezuela I—How to Build an Oil Empire
How legal architecture, elite collaboration, and U.S. firms locked Venezuela into a century-long extractive order
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Behind the Federal Power Grab to Fast-Track AI
Inside FERC’s queue reforms, co-location fights, and a new national interconnection push as data centers transform grid governance
 • Justin Kollar
AI Industrial Strategy III—Executive Action and State Preemption to Override Local Data Center Opposition
The AI boom has turned data centers into one of the fastest growing categories of industrial development, with a resource footprint that is hard to hide…
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Fossil AI I—Finance Capital's New Utility Frontier
Private equity, utilities, and regulators gamble on plausibly exaggerated data center forecasts and long-lived fossil assets
 • Justin Kollar
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