Geopolitics
The New Digital Frontier: AI Infrastructure and the Looming Specter of Neo-Colonialism in the Global South
The global race to host AI data centers is exposing a critical fault line in the Global South: the 'renewable-to-compute conversion gap' where clean energy potential fails to translate into socially legitimate and reliable computing power, as seen in protests in Johor, Malaysia. This is a stark warning that the neo-colonial model of extracting resources and imposing scarcity on local communities is being reborn in the digital age, threatening to replicate imperial patterns of exploitation under the guise of technological progress.
