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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
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Justin Kollar
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How South Memphis Became a Sacrifice Zone for xAI's Data Center
Growth machines, environmental injustice, and AI’s resource demands
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Justin Kollar
AI Industrial Strategy Under Trump 2.0
How environmental rollbacks, grid expansion, and public subsidies are reshaping U.S. policy for data center growth
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Justin Kollar
Compute First, Climate Second
Corporate energy strategies are bending the grid and breaking decarbonization timelines
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Justin Kollar
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
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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
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Justin Kollar
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The University and the AI Gold Rush
On the Promises and Pitfalls of MIT’s New Generative AI Impact Consortium (and Others Like It)
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Justin Kollar
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The Myth of “Startup Cities”
How Techno-utopias Repackage Corporate Colonialism
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Justin Kollar
Amazon’s Energy Empire in the Pacific Northwest
Behind (and Beyond) the Growth in Renewables
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Justin Kollar
Techno-Statecraft
Techno-Statecraft
Mapping the intersections of technology, governance, and power.
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