@lauren https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/data-centres-networks/19571-work-begins-on-massive-government-data-centre-for-saudi-arabia.htmlRemember who funds both Trump & Sundar.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-06/google-thiel-stand-out-in-saudi-prince-s-silicon-valley-tourhttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.htmlhttps://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/06/the-nra-spent-dollar30-million-to-elect-trump-was-it-russian-moneyThe fossil fuel industry. https://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/the-koch-brothers-intelligence-agency-215943Koch Network has had an intelligence capability for decades than many a despot would envy.Saudi Arabia has desired an expansion of their domestic state surveillance to an international platform for years.https://www.arabnews.jp/en/saudi-arabia/article_159243/https://theweek.com/60339/things-women-cant-do-in-saudi-arabiahttps://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-google-hand-dissident-data-to-saudi-arabia-activists-say-2023-71/

@lauren yupthe answer to why the usa is so interested in venezuelan oil, and why trump shuts down wind and solar projects, when solar and wind seem so much better in all respects, was summed up in a newspaper political cartoon from the 1970s:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Peters_(cartoonist)

While U.S. Billionaire Big Tech CEOs make excuses, China drafts world's strictest rules to end AI-encouraged suicide, violence, etc.https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/china-drafts-worlds-strictest-rules-to-end-ai-encouraged-suicide-violence/

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