Tag: Artificial intelligence
The Mayor Who Made Silicon Valley Take an Audition
When global tech conglomerates descended on a remote Norwegian fjord demanding baseload power for AI server farms, they expected a small town to fold. Instead, twenty-two-year-old mayor Håvard Handeland used century-old sunshine laws, absolute municipal zoning power, and radical transparency to force Silicon Valley onto an audition stage. A sharp case study in local democracy,…
The Algorithmic Extraction Machine
American hospitals are deploying AI to comb through patient records, inflate medical billing, and extract billions—without providing any extra care. But who actually profits from this automated cruelty? A deep dive from the coast of Norway uncovers the algorithmic trench war of US healthcare, the private equity liquidation of community hospitals, and the uncomfortable truth…
