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The political economy of compute comes into focus as China builds underwater data centers

June 11, 2026

Mississippi communities and Tennessee residents are fighting gas turbines and water diversion to power xAI supercomputers, a struggle obscured by the SpaceX IPO's financial hype and amplified by OpenAI and Chinese actors exploiting energy price fears via ChatGPT. Canadian policy papers explicitly link data center expansion to securing fossil fuel markets, while China counters Western dominance with rival satellite constellations and the world's first wind-powered underwater data center. The physical footprint of AI is now a collision of local ecological degradation, geopolitical infrastructure races, and the financialization of energy, forcing communities to defend their water and air against the material demands of digital computation.

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The Cow Passport Panic

Traceability, Trust, and the Future of Farming

How a livestock reporting proposal became a fight about disease, bureaucracy, rural life, surveillance, and institutional trust.

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People Living Near xAI’s Dirty Data Centers Are Furious About the SpaceX IPO

Wired

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OpenAI says China-based actors stoking opposition to AI data centres

Al Jazeera English — geopolitics, structural power

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Mark Carney Adviser Says AI Data Centres ‘Provide Markets’ for Gas

The Tyee

ANALYSIS

Report and Community Resources: Corporate Power Players in the Data Center Industry

AI Now Institute — AI governance, structural power, media and technology

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China builds a rival satellite constellation as SpaceX goes public

Rest of World — AI governance, media and technology, geopolitics

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How much heat does an AI data centre produce, and where are they located?

Al Jazeera English — geopolitics, structural power

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China Opens World’s First Wind-Powered Underwater Data Center

Wired

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New geopolitics threatens more food crises

IPES-Food — food sovereignty

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What happens when the world’s breadbaskets start failing simultaneously?

The Conversation — all

ANALYSIS

Another food crisis? Yes, but this time it’s different

GRAIN — food sovereignty, corporate power

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Earth’s energy imbalance has doubled – here’s why that matters

The Conversation — all

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What encampment residents would say to Doug Ford

PressProgress

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