Techno-Statecraft

AI Industrial Strategy Under Trump 2.0, Part III

How federal executive action and state preemption laws are attempting to blunt local resistance to data centers

14 hrs ago • Justin Kollar

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Fossil AI—Finance Capital's New Utility Frontier

Private equity, utilities, and regulators gamble on plausibly exaggerated data center forecasts and long-lived fossil assets

Dec 4 • Justin Kollar

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November 2025

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

Nov 28 • Justin Kollar

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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

Nov 21 • Justin Kollar

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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

Nov 7 • Justin Kollar

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October 2025

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

Oct 30 • Justin Kollar

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Argentina’s Bailout and the New Digital Extractivism

The fusion of austerity and AI "innovation" turns crisis management into a frontier for U.S. power and corporate profit

Oct 20 • Justin Kollar

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September 2025

Who Profits From the AI Boom? Following the Money in the Cloud Economy

Tracing how debt, utilities, land, and chips shape the uneven flow of profits across the AI stack

Sep 26 • Justin Kollar

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North Carolina and Other States Are Turning AI Into Industrial Policy

Local resistance meets statewide ambition in the rush to build AI infrastructure

Sep 17 • Justin Kollar

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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

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