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Private Infrastructure, Public Permission
The federal government is becoming the gatekeeper for a privately owned AI infrastructure system. That combination concentrates power—and creates structural incentives for corruption.
Explore The Race
Lane 3 — Compute and Physical Infrastructure
Essay
Is the Window of Contestability Still Open?
Six practical questions help reveal whether AI choices can still be changed. Applied to data centers, Android, OpenAI Presence, and Meta’s Hyperion project, they show a window being preserved, reopened, narrowed—and nearly closed.
Essay
From Land Use to Capacity Governance: The AI Infrastructure Problem Coming Into View
AI data centers are no longer merely local land-use projects. They are claims on regional power, water, infrastructure, and public capacity. Can our distributed institutions govern the whole before the choices become difficult to reverse?
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Utility Governance Is Democracy’s Entry Point Into the AI Race
AI’s physical expansion depends on electricity, water, land, and grid access. That gives utilities, regulators, and local governments a crucial opening to shape who pays, who benefits, and whether the public retains a meaningful say in the AI race.