Gods or Ashes, Part 3: The Infrastructure War
xAI's Colossus supercomputer in Memphis went from announcement to 100,000 GPUs in 122 days. The power came without public hearings.
Part 3 follows the buildout from Memphis outward: data centers built wherever power is cheapest and oversight thinnest, communities overruled, and a concentration of critical infrastructure that is its own national security risk. The new East India Companies, planting flags.
0:00 Opening
0:49 Memphis: The Template
2:41 When Democracy Meets Capital
3:59 The Voices No One Wants to Hear
8:39 The Global Buildout and Colonial Parallel
10:51 The Power Crisis and Environmental Fiction
13:08 The Concentration Risk: A National Security Nightmare
18:58 The Arms Race and Who Pays
20:52 The Control Question
First published November 3, 2025. Some figures have moved since; the pattern hasn't.
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