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> The oil is on Alaska/Norway's land These AI companies are on American land.
by vrganj 5mo ago
> The oil is on Alaska/Norway's land
These AI companies are on American land.
- onlyrealcuzzo 5mo agoThe funny thing about data is... it can move across borders a lot better than oil deposits...
- ethbr1 5mo agoData can. Data centers at scale, less so. But I suppose that's why Altman and Musk have been cozying up to autocratic Middle Eastern regimes and dreaming about AI in space...
- jcranmer 5mo agoIn the case of Alaska, the oil is literally on land owned by the State of Alaska (as in, the titleholder of the land is the state itself), and the rights to oil extraction is leased by the state to oil companies. By contrast, data centers are generally going to be on land owned by the operator, and corporate offices are either owned by the company or leased to the company by some commercial real estate operator you've probably never heard of. In neither sense are they on land owned by any local, state, or federal government.
- vrganj 5mo agoThe sovereign entity granting said private ownership is the state. It is privately owned only insofar as the state wills it.
- chasd00 5mo ago> It is privately owned only insofar as the state wills it. you mean as the people/voters wills it. Private ownership of land is pretty sacred law in the US, I don't see those laws being changed any time soon. Even logical things like the concept of eminent domain is very controversial.
- Garshtrot 5mo agoHoly shit a realpolitiker. There is a God called "state" that WILLS the laws. Only by the power of prayer can one communicate with the sovereign, who whimsically discards centuries long legal traditions because a midwit read Schmitt or something.