AI Data Center Hucksters Wouldn’t Bribe Legislators – Would They?

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Bribery of a lawmaker used to be a straightforward retail transaction between the special interest briber and a specific bribee. But the Silicon Valley billionaires now invading rural America with hundreds of their exploitative AI data centers are out to buy state lawmakers in bulk. Instead of slipping cash-filled envelopes to individual politicos, tech giants like Amazon, Meta and OpenAI are putting up hundreds of millions of dollars in this spring’s midterm elections to pay […]

Jim Hightower
Jim Hightower
Populist author, public speaker and radio commentator Jim Hightower writes "The Hightower Lowdown," a monthly newsletter chronicling the ongoing fights by America's ordinary people against rule by plutocratic elites. Sign up at JimHightower.substack.com.