Google was apparently so eager to build its new data center infrastructure in Finland that it began bulldozing large swaths of forest before the required environmental review...
One way to understand this process in a reductive but not altogether that off the mark way is to frame fascism as a weaponization of measurement, artificial metrics, beaucracy, dissection and surveillance. Without paperwork and endless obsessive attempts to draw distinctions between things that do not exist it really isn’t true fascism.
In this sense Microsoft’s use of Azure to enable the surveillance, targetting, and atomization of Palestinian society for Israel’s Genocide and all of the pointless data centers meant to hoard information about people being built in areas without enough water already for humans are two sides of the same irrational coin.
One way to understand this process in a reductive but not altogether that off the mark way is to frame fascism as a weaponization of measurement, artificial metrics, beaucracy, dissection and surveillance. Without paperwork and endless obsessive attempts to draw distinctions between things that do not exist it really isn’t true fascism.
In this sense Microsoft’s use of Azure to enable the surveillance, targetting, and atomization of Palestinian society for Israel’s Genocide and all of the pointless data centers meant to hoard information about people being built in areas without enough water already for humans are two sides of the same irrational coin.