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Tech Giants Don’t Just Want Your Data; They Want Your City

April 26, 2026 Ali Fard, Next City. , , ,
The fall of 2017 was a watershed moment in the evolving relationship between urbanism and technology corporations. In September, Amazon announced a request for proposals for cities to bid to host its new North American headquarters, Amazon HQ2. In October, a new partnership was announced between Sidewalk Labs — an Alphabet/Google subsidiary — and Waterfront Toronto — a public organization charged with the administration of the redevelopment and revitalization of Toronto’s postindustrial waterfront — to develop an “innovation and development plan” for Quayside, a 12-acre site on the city’s waterfront. The partnership was called “Sidewalk Toronto.”

Meet The Tech Workers Organizing Against Their Employers

March 31, 2026 Elsie Carson-Holt, The Indypendent. , , ,
N, like many of her colleagues at Google, began working at the company out of a desire to make a comfortable living and do a little good in the world. (N is speaking on the condition of anonymity as she is not authorized by her employer to speak to press). She had high hopes that by working there she’d gain a salary that would allow her to live well, use her skills as a program manager and take advantage of the opportunity to work somewhere that was “positioned really well to provide all these different services at a free level, for people to be able to connect with each other, to be able to find their way around the world, to do all kinds of productive things.”

Kill Chain: Silicon Valley, AI, And The War On Iran

March 29, 2026 Bappa Sinha, People's Dispatch. , , ,
On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury, striking 1,000 targets in Iran within the first 24 hours. By mid-March, the number had crossed 6,000. Behind this staggering pace of destruction lay not just the familiar arsenal of Tomahawk missiles, B-2 stealth bombers and carrier-based fighters, but a new weapon in the imperial toolkit: artificial intelligence. The US military’s own AI strategy document puts it with brutal clarity: “speed wins” and “the risks of not moving fast enough outweigh the risks of imperfect alignment.” What this means in practice is that the Pentagon has decided that killing faster matters more than killing accurately.

Big Green + Big Tech = Bigger Environmental Racism

March 27, 2026 Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. , , ,
As David Holt, Mayor of Oklahoma City, remarked to Politico last month, “ If you had asked me about data centers five months ago, I would have said: ‘What’s a data center?” He continued, “Now it’s everywhere. So that’s a short amount of time to fully formulate what you think about it.” While it’s true that data centers to power artificial intelligence (AI) are a ubiquitous aspect of the current U.S. lexicon, the idea that positions on data centers have not been fully formulated is questionable. Clearly, Big Tech corporations are solid in their position that they need as much influence over the government and other decision makers to proliferate their data center infrastructure wherever they want and as quickly as they want.

Why Big Tech Is A Target In The US-Israeli War On Iran

March 24, 2026 Jamal Meselmani, The Cradle. , , , ,
In traditional wars, armies directed their firepower toward visible strategic assets – military bases, weapons factories, airfields – where supply lines could be mapped and battle plans drawn with relative certainty. Combat effectiveness depended on numbers, firepower, and tactical maneuver. Today, however, the logic of war has shifted beyond the physical battlefield. Over the past two decades, the digital revolution has built a second layer of strategic infrastructure behind the front lines, quietly transforming how power is projected and how wars are fought.

Big Tech Accused Of AI ‘Greenwashing’

February 17, 2026 Joey Grostern, DeSmog. , , , ,
The big tech industry’s claims about the climate benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) are largely unproven and unsubstantiated, according to a new report from a coalition of climate advocacy and accountability groups. The report found that only 26 percent of the climate claims made by big tech companies cited published academic research, with 36 percent citing no evidence whatsoever. The analysis is the first of its kind to assess climate claims from major AI developers like Google and Microsoft, as well as from independent institutions like the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Tech Bro Think Tank Is Trying To Roll Back Homelessness Policy

January 20, 2026 Garrett L. Grainger, Truthout. , , ,
Last fall, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) nearly triggered a homelessness disaster of its own making. A rush of policy changes that were rolled out with almost no warning and even less guidance threatened to push up to 170,000 formerly unhoused Americans out of stable housing. The strangest part? Much of this upheaval traces back to a little-known think tank that was born in Silicon Valley. The Cicero Institute, created by tech investor Joe Lonsdale, has spent the past few years promoting aggressive policies targeting encampments for the unhoused and pushing cities to move away from Housing First, the U.S.’s primary model for responding to chronic homelessness.

How Corporate Platforms Are Suppressing Artists Who Dissent

December 15, 2025 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. , , , , , , ,
David Rovics is an activist musician who composes songs that educate about historical events, provide political analysis about current events, and raise up people from social movements. His solidarity with Palestinian liberation is deep, spanning his entire musical career. Recently, his entire 50-album catalog on YouTube Music was deleted. Clearing the FOG speaks with Rovics about the retaliation he has faced, some of his recent songs, how platforms like Spotify and YouTube are impacting the music industry, his artificial intelligence band, Ai Tsuno, and calls to boycott Spotify.

The Koch Network Is Pushing Trump To Accelerate AI

December 15, 2025 Geoff Dembicki, DeSmog. , , , , ,
A political group created by oil and gas billionaire Charles Koch earlier this year wrote to a branch of the U.S. government making requests about artificial intelligence. “To seize the moment and ensure that AI can meet its true promise and potential,” it argued in March to the National Coordination Office, a federal body tasked by Donald Trump at the time with developing an AI Action Plan, the administration should “clear the red tape” preventing “energy innovators” from supplying the massive amounts of electricity required to power new AI data centers across the country.

230+ Groups Call For National Moratorium On New Data Centers

December 8, 2025 Food and Water Watch. , , , , ,
Washington – In a letter sent to Congress today, more than 230 national, state and local organizations from across the country called for a full national moratorium on the approval and construction of new data centers. The letter cites massive and unsustainable consumption by data centers of energy and water resources, and skyrocking utility costs for families and small businesses. The letter was facilitated by the national environmental group Food & Water Watch, and signed by organizations including Physicians for Social Responsibility, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Progressive Democrats of America, Our Revolution and Americans for Financial Reform.

Data Centers And The AI Bubble

October 23, 2025 Hanna Eid, Black Agenda Report. , , ,
For the last month or so, investors, business gurus, and veritable Wolves of Wall Street have been discussing the massive–and growing–AI financial bubble. Speculative bubbles are nothing new in the American economy. The other imperialist countries in Europe are slightly insulated from this financialization, although not entirely. AI has been on the tip of everyone’s tongues for some time now, and many services–email, customer service, shopping sites, and even social media are full of AI chatbots or ‘virtual assistants’ which promise to ease your time on the web.

The AI Race: How The Surge In Data Centers Harms Us

October 20, 2025 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. , , , , , , , ,
There are more than 5,400 data centers in the United States, which is almost half of the number of data centers worldwide. In the past four years, there has been a surge in data center construction, particularly in poor communities in the South. Clearing the FOG speaks with Jai Dulani of Media Justice, who authored a new report: The People Say No: Resisting Data Centers in the South, and Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson, about the harms that these centers are causing in local communities, particularly in their enormous consumption of water and energy, and the risk they pose to the US economy. Akuno also addresses the bigger picture of the deleterious impact of artificial intelligence on our lives.

Tiktok, Oracle, And Israel: The New Geopolitics Of Algorithms

October 9, 2025 Miguel Ruiz, People's Dispatch. , , , , , , , ,
Launched in 2017 by the private Chinese company ByteDance, TikTok quickly became one of the most important social networks on the planet. By early 2025, it had 1.6 billion active users, more than half of them outside China, of whom an estimated 170 million are North American; 1 in 5 people in the US get their news from this network, 4 in 10 among the 18-29 age group. Today, it is the fastest-growing platform among the younger segments of the global population. The US government has waged a long battle to force ByteDance to sell the US branch of TikTok to a group of “domestic” capitalists, citing national security concerns and threatening to ban the platform in the US if the deal did not go through.

First Comprehensive, Regional Analysis Of Data Centers In The South

September 11, 2025 Media Justice. , , , ,
Today, advocacy organization Media Justice releases The People Say No: Resisting Data Centers in the South, the first comprehensive, regional analysis of data centers across the South with original research and case studies from Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia and South Carolina. The new report reveals how tech corporations like Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta, who have spent more than $100 billion on data center construction just this summer, are draining the region economically and environmentally. “While Big Tech wants the public to believe that the AI boom and rapid data center growth marks progress, our communities are being sold out in the process.

Silicon Valley Insider Exposes Cult-Like AI Companies

September 3, 2025 Aaron Bastani, Scheer Post. , , ,
As artificial intelligence begins to fundamentally alter the way normal people live their lives, it’s often talked about in terms of boom and doom, which makes a nuanced examination difficult. The problem with AI is that the understanding required to scrutinise the technology is rare and even if one does have that understanding, the ability to clearly communicate it is even rarer. This week’s guest has been both a worker in, and reporter on the tech industry and is uniquely poised to present a nuanced and informed analysis of this rapidly expanding industry. In her new book, Empire of AI, Karen Hao debunks myths that surround AI and exposes us to the full breadth of this global industry.
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