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AI Data Centres Spark Colonial‑Style Debate in Mvskoke Nation

AI Data Centres Spark Colonial‑Style Debate in Mvskoke Nation
How Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’ can help readers understand the hidden costs of AI · scroll.in

A group of people from the Mvskoke Nation in Oklahoma said no to a plan that would build a big computer center on their land.

They worried that the center would use a lot of water and take away land that is important to them.

Some smart people wrote an article that compared this to a story by Shakespeare called The Tempest.

In that story, a man named Prospero takes control of an island and its people.

The article says that the way the computer center would work is similar to how Prospero controlled the island.

It shows that big companies can use technology to take power from people, just like in the story.

The article says that the people in the Mvskoke Nation can fight back and make sure the technology helps them, not hurts them.

Key facts

AI Data Centres
Energy‑intensive, located far from users
Mvskoke Technology and Innovation Park
Proposed data centre park in Oklahoma
NCA 25-077
Bill to establish the park
Mvskoke Nation
Indigenous nation opposing the park
Shakespeare's The Tempest
Used as allegory for AI power structures

Quotes

Jordan Harmon

Mvskoke Nation citizen and advocate

“"ravenous consumption of data and physical resources" and to AI being used to "surveil and police people"”
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