To Serve Man: The Rapid Rise Of AI Compute And AI Data Centers

Institutional AI is not an add‑on to our existing order; it is the order. When you follow the hardware, the data flows, and the political incentives, a simple conclusion emerges: institutional AI—corporate plus state—is structurally about governing populations and markets, and that’s where most of the compute and data gravity now resides.
Let’s begin with the physical substrate: energy and compute. Technocracy, almost a century ago, proposed a regime where the key v