Tag: Local democracy
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,…
