Techno-Statecraft

Is Your Cloud Account Funding the Next Forever War?

U.S. techno-capitalism has long fused commercial innovation with large-scale systems of military power

Sep 5 • 

Justin Kollar

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August 2025

Dark Fiber—an Archaeology of the Dot-Com Bubble

The fiber laid in the 1990s built enduring routes for digital power and profit

Aug 28 • 

Justin Kollar

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Powering Silicon Valley's AI Dreams

How San José and Santa Clara’s Utility Models Shape the Region’s Data Center Boom

Aug 21 • 

Justin Kollar

11

Don’t be Fooled—the AI Bubble is the Strategy

From railroads to dot-coms to AI, speculative cycles remain central to how capital accumulates and offloads risk

Aug 7 • 

Justin Kollar

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AI Industrial Strategy Under Trump 2.0, Part II

Barriers, Bypasses, Buildouts—the New Frontier of Extraction

Aug 4 • 

Justin Kollar

17

June 2025

Fabricating Dependency—The Political Economy of the Semiconductor Crisis

How decades of concentrated financial power hollowed out the U.S. industrial base and created geopolitical entanglements

Jun 16 • 

Justin Kollar

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Why SpaceX Turned a Launch Site into a Legal Enclave

Learning from other spaceport failures, SpaceX rewrote the rules to bypass regulation and public accountability

Jun 2 • 

Justin Kollar

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May 2025

How South Memphis Became a Sacrifice Zone for xAI's Data Center

Growth machines, environmental injustice, and AI’s resource demands

May 6 • 

Justin Kollar

8

April 2025

AI Industrial Strategy Under Trump 2.0, Part I

How environmental rollbacks, grid expansion, and public subsidies are reshaping U.S. policy for data center growth

Apr 28 • 

Justin Kollar

12

Compute First, Climate Second

Corporate energy strategies are bending the grid and breaking decarbonization timelines

Apr 25 • 

Justin Kollar

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Are Britain’s AI Growth Zones the New Enclosures?

How a new policy is shaping land, energy, and governance to serve the territorial demands of artificial intelligence

Apr 23 • 

Justin Kollar

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AI Won’t Save the Grid, It’s Taking It Over

The Quiet Politics of Power in the EIA’s Recent Energy and AI Report

Apr 11 • 

Justin Kollar

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