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Data Center Enclosure, Biometrics, Cockroach Janta

May 28, 2026

AI infrastructure is consolidating as physical chokepoints and biometric capture, with data center expansion igniting local resource conflicts while automated surveillance systems extend control into biological domains. State actors are responding to material friction by criminalizing anti-tech sentiment as extremism, even as distributed resistance leverages open-source mapping and memetic satire to contest algorithmic authority.

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