Astra Taylor on AI Data Center Resistance & Fighting "Billionaire Big Tech Agenda" (/Democracy Now!)

As the “supercharged” construction of new data centers to power artificial intelligence blankets the country, a growing resistance movement to these massive corporate projects amid a lack of public oversight is not far behind. As organizer Astra Taylor explains, local fights across the country are leveraging this “industry chokepoint” to force important questions, from the distribution of land, water and energy resources to democratic governance over an industry currently driven by a “billionaire Big Tech agenda.” While AI boosters frame the technology as inevitable, Taylor says, “I think that many people are more skeptical than that. … That’s part of what it means to have democratic governance over AI, to say, ’No, we don’t need this technology to take over every facet of our existence.’”

Naomi Klein postet in ihrem Newsletter das Cover von End Times Fascism. Das Buch, das sie zusammen mit Astra Taylor schreibt, wird am 15. September erscheinen. Es ist aus dem Guardian-Artikel entstanden, über den ich hier vor einiger Zeit geschrieben habe. Gerade erst hat sie mit Ezra Klein über die Themen des Buchs diskutiert.

Ich bin auf das Buch gespannt – vor allem, weil Klein und Taylor die Themen der Spiegelwelt und des apokalyptischen Faschismus zusammen mit dem Kampf gegen die sich verschlimmernde Klimakatastrophe behandeln. In ihrem Newsletter schreibt Naomi Klein:

As we show via original reporting and analysis, internal conflicts and contradictions leave today’s far right intensely vulnerable to a new kind of “pro-life” politics, one that chooses the living world over robots and weapons and refuses to give up on the idea of a shared future.

I only now found the time to properly read this:

"The rise of end times fascism by #NaomiKlein and #AstraTaylor"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk

Critical reading to know what we're up against.

(It would be good to explore how these narratives connect with the narratives that are embraced and pushed by Baudet and his FvD constituency).

#NaomiKlein #Fascism #EndTimesFascism #Guardian #TheGuardian

La montée du fascisme de la fin des temps (2025)
https://www.informassue.tuxfamily.org/pages/soumission_autorite.php?art=strategie_du_choc&st=naomi_klein_montee_fascisme_fin_des_temps
Un article de Naomi Klein et Astra Taylor devenu incontournable...

#NaomiKlein #AstraTaylor #Fascisme #Ressources #Trump #Effondrement #Civilisation #ShockDoctrine

La montée du #fascisme de la fin des temps

L'idéologie dominante de l' #extremedroite est devenue un survivalisme monstrueux, destructeur et suprématiste, expliquent Naomi Klein https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Klein et Astra Taylor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astra_Taylor dans un article récent devenu incontournable, dont Terrestres publie la traduction en français. Elles appellent à construire un mouvement suffisamment fort pour l'arrêter. https://www.terrestres.org/2025/07/16/la-montee-du-fascisme-de-la-fin-des-temps/

#politique #Capitalisme #AstraTaylor #NaomiKlein