Archive - Techno-Statecraft

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 •

April 2025

AI Industrial Strategy Under Trump 2.0

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

Apr 28 •

Compute First, Climate Second

Corporate energy strategies are bending the grid and breaking decarbonization timelines

Apr 25 •

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 •

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 •

The University and the AI Gold Rush

On the Promises and Pitfalls of MIT’s New Generative AI Impact Consortium (and Others Like It)

Apr 6 •

March 2025

February 2025

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