AI initiatives are money laundering for the fossil fuel industry, with a side benefit of election meddling.
https://www.desmog.com/2025/12/11/the-koch-network-is-pushing-trump-to-accelerate-ai-documents-show/
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-energy-industry-ai-fossil-fuels-pittsburgh-summit/
The Middle East was supposed to be the new Russian Internet Research Agency, then Trump bombed Iran.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-06/saudis-plan-100-billion-ai-powerhouse-to-rival-uae-s-tech-hub
Folks seem to have overlooked how much fossil fuel is guzzled by data centers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/technology/saudi-arabia-ai-exporter.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/climate/data-centers-electricity-trump.html
Employment precarity as social policy is built into conservative billionaire bigotry.
Uncertainty & anxiety about the future is politically useful to The Moneyed.
It enables ample opportunities for divide & conquer tactics, as well as blameshifting to the vulnerable (immigrants, the poor, women, children, POC, seniors, & religious minorities)
For over a century America corporate interests have had hostile, adversarial attitudes towards the labor force.