The AI Race With China Is a Lie Told by Big Tech to Justify the Data Center Invasion

Photo: A Google datacenter in The Dalles, Oregon, on the Columbia River – May 17, 2015. Photo credit: Tony Webster via Flickr. CC BY 2.0. © 2015 Tony Webster. Article by Mitch Jones. Common Dreams – July 27, 2026.

As Big Tech races to build water-guzzling, energy-hungry data centers for its artificial intelligence, talk of an “AI race” between the United States and China has permeated public discourse. Pundits, politicians, and the media have all joined tech corporations in selling this narrative. And it’s giving license to Big Tech and their political handmaidens to ruin our communities, exploit our every action (both online and via AI-powered surveillance), and steal the wealth of human knowledge for private gain. […]

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