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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
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The United States in Venezuela II—How to Sabotage an Oil State
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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
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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
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Semiconductors, Sprawl, and the Making of Arizona’s Techno-State
From Cold War defense plants to CHIPS subsidies, how speculative growth politics now serve global chip manufacturing
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Cisco, Nvidia, and the Economics of Tech Bubbles
What the dot-com buildout and the AI expansion reveal about state policy, investor hype, and the burdens of infrastructure
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The Structural Violence of Risk Management Behind the AI Infrastructure Bubble
How financial institutions sustain the AI boom by exporting risks to everyone else
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The Compute-Industrial Complex
Inside some of the coalitions turning America’s AI boom into a new model of infrastructural enclosure, deregulation, and state-capital coordination
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