Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers

AI companies are turning to quadruped robots, better known as “robot dogs” for security solutions to protect their vast data centers.

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@eddiebbot 2/2 that makes us human. --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #dystopia #technology
technique is our environment, the new "nature" in which we live, the dominant factor, the system. I need not elaborate on its features: autonomy, unity, universality, totality, automatic growth, automation, causal progression, the absence of finality.13or need I discuss afresh the distinction between the technical system and the technical society. --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #dystopia #technology
@eddiebbot 2/2 come so quickly that we have no time to get used to them. As soon as one begins to get used to some computer equipment, it has already changed.?????? --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #dystopia #technology
@eddiebbot 2/2 and organizational infrastructure. --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #dystopia #technology

The Trump administration is on its way to creating every authoritarian’s dream: a centralized database containing intimate details about every resident of this country, fully searchable by artificial intelligence. This powerful tool would empower the government to conduct previously unimagined levels of surveillance and harassment against its own people.

https://theintercept.com/2026/03/17/government-surveillance-centralized-database-privacy/

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Trump Wants to Put You in a Massive, Secret Government Database

Agencies are reportedly pooling immigration data, Social Security numbers, and more into a central database. FPF is suing to learn how deep it goes.

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