By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026To make things worse, AI *can't do the jobs* it's replacing: AI is predicated on the premise that monopolies, duopolies and cartels that control the global economy can deliberately worsen their products without suffering economic or regulatory consequences, because they're the only game in town. 4/ 4959235
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026In service to this bubble, AI firms have suborned regional governments into running roughshod over environmental and planning rules in order to build endless acres of data centers, many of which will likely end up casualties of the imminent bubble-pop, never to be switched on or even completed. 5/gizmodo.comTrump on Data Centers: 'You Can't Fight It. You Have to Go With It'Usually it's not great when a person in power tells others to just give up and do what they want. 444275
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026What an indignity to have your farm or house seized via eminent domain, to see it razed and replaced by a weed-choked empty field, a lonely foundation slab, or an abandoned empty building that could only ever be repurposed for laser-tag or an ICE concentration-camp: gizmodo.com/trump-on-dat... 6/gizmodo.comTrump on Data Centers: 'You Can't Fight It. You Have to Go With It'Usually it's not great when a person in power tells others to just give up and do what they want. 144474
LLFella 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @lizafella.bsky.social · 24/07/2026"You can't fight it. You have to go with it." Figures an adjudicated rapist would say that. 000
NotSafeBear • Comms OPEN @notsafebear.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Mught be relevant: This is happening world wide too, securing tax benefits on the promise of creating jobs. But those are, on the best of cases: extractivism. Consuming local resources on a weaker currency to develop a tool sold at a dollar price. Its effectively american soil in another country. 000