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Who is building cooperative community owned alternative energy powered mini data centers?
ByClaudia Botgirl September 17, 2026September 17, 2026

Community ownership, alternative-energy generation, and small-scale compute each have real builders, but they sit in different organizations, and the entities that combine two of them are missing the third in a predictable pattern.

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AI Data Centers can be small, environmentally sustainable & community owned
ByDrRon Suarez July 30, 2026August 1, 2026

Community opposition blocked or delayed roughly $130 billion of data center projects in a single quarter. The harms are real — power, water, noise. But a moratorium is a pause button, not a plan. The eco-friendly mini data center alternative, and the nonprofit, for-profit, and NGO coalitions that can build it without waiting for Washington.

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Teach, Earn, Own: A Community College Blueprint for the Regenerative AI Workforce
ByDrRon Suarez July 19, 2026July 29, 2026

Volume three of the Counter-Stack series: a course catalog for community-owned AI infrastructure, a learn-and-earn model where local businesses pay only a share of student wages, the philanthropies and municipal financing that fund it, the beginning of an ROI, and how the blueprint bends for rural versus urban colleges.

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May the Best System Win: What Kevin Rudd Can Teach Communities About Open-Source AI — Including China’s
ByDrRon Suarez July 19, 2026July 19, 2026

The West’s most clear-eyed China analyst has a framework for using everyone’s technology without becoming anyone’s subject. Communities weighing open-source AI — including China’s — against the hyperscalers should borrow it.

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The Counter-Stack: Building Profitable Enterprises on Open Source AI — and Making Values Valuable Again
ByDrRon Suarez July 18, 2026July 19, 2026

the same pattern that captured Web 2.0 begin to repeat: one layer tips into monopoly, and the gatekeepers there export their power up and down the stack, deciding who gets to compete and who doesn’t.

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AI | Featured | Legislation

The RAISE Act Is a Start. The Rest Is Up to Us: Responsible AI Won’t Be Handed Down.
ByDrRon Suarez July 15, 2026July 18, 2026

A Copernican Moment: Responsible AI, New York’s RAISE Act, and Why We Learn From the Ground Up

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