The Infrastructure Question

AI, compute, power, sovereignty and accountability. The essays in this dossier read the technical stack as public infrastructure.

10 essays · AI infrastructure · Public control

01 The Wrong Unit Why deployment is the risk unit. → 02 The Landlord Economy What remains after the tenant leaves. → 03 The Silicon Valley Central Banks: Welcome to the Compute Standard Compute as reserve asset. → 04 The Vatican Wrote the Policy Document We Refused to Write Classification before enforcement. → 05 You Can't Own the Accountability If You Don't Own the Stack Control sets responsibility. → 06 The Accountability Gap Is the Function, Not the Bug Incentives decide outcomes. → 07 The Wizard of Silicon Valley: AI's Invisible Human Underclass The hidden labor layer. → 08 The 20-Watt Challenge: Why AI Is Drowning in Its Own Energy Architecture as energy policy. → 09 AI Is Hitting an Energy Wall Power is not the answer. → 10 Cloud Capital: Infrastructure, Innovation, and Influence in the Post-Physical Economy Capital moves into infrastructure. →