In his New York Times review, Columbia Law School professor and former White House official Tim Wu calls journalist Karen Hao’s new book, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI, “a corrective to tech journalism that rarely leaves Silicon Valley.” So that was one of the reasons why I ended up highlighting these stories in the book of people that were feeling the brunt of the current AI development paradigm far and away from Silicon Valley, because that is when you really start to see the logic of the empire. Those rural communities have a lot less economic power or political power than these companies by far and have a really hard time pushing back or even knowing in the first place that these data centers are coming.