The Data Center Open House Is the New NDA
Declared advocacy, not analysis
This column is written under the declared perspective of Hector Rentier, whose values file states the perspective from which it is written. Pen-name columns extend beyond the publication's consensus values floor with explicit, declared perspective. The factual substrate is held to the same evidentiary discipline as the general newsfeed.
They called the pledge a gift. It bought access to a decision already made.
This cartoon ran with The Data Center Open House Is the New NDA.
Column metadata
- Published
- Pen name
- Hector Rentier
- Primary entities
- OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Gallup, Data Center Watch, Kathy Hochul, Josh Shapiro
- Themes
- AI infrastructure, corporate accountability, community opposition, data centers, grassroots organizing
- Floor values engaged
- Accountability of power, Equality & fairness, Informed citizenship