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3/ https://fortune.com/2024/09/17/oracle-larry-ellison-surveillance-state-police-ai/ https://www.trendingtopics.eu/billion-dollar-shuffle-openai-nvidia-oracle/ https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2025/09/oracle-invested-millions-in-government-influence-before-winning-a-major-stake-in-tiktok/ https://www.gadgetreview.com/reddit-user-uncovers-who-is-behind-metas-2b-lobbying-for-invasive-age-verification-tech https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2025/07/17/bill-gates-charles-koch-and-three-other-billionaires-are-giving-1-billion-to-enhance-economic-mobility-in-the-us/ https://www.desmog.com/2025/12/11/the-koch-network-is-pushing-trump-to-accelerate-ai-documents-show/ https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/google-microsoft-pay-creators-500000-and-more-to-promote-ai.html https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-google-hand-dissident-data-to-saudi-arabia-activists-say-2023-7 https://www.wired.com/story/ai-industry-monopoly-nvidia-microsoft-google/ AI is driving up rents, gas prices, electricity & water utility rates and is worsening climate change. https://www.consumerreports.org/data-centers/ai-data-centers-impact-on-electric-bills-water-and-more-a1040338678/ https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/electricity-price-data-center-ai-inflation-goldman.html https://pestakeholder.org/news/arizona-reaches-settlement-with-landlord-accused-of-rental-price-fixing-through-thoma-bravos-realpage/ https://www.propublica.org/article/doj-realpage-settlement-rental-price-fixing-case https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-27/meta-funds-seven-entergy-gas-plants-to-power-biggest-data-center https://corporateknights.com/issues/2026-01-distributed-economy-issue/ai-data-centres-are-driving-an-energy-and-water-crunch-worldwide/