Anthropic isn’t building a second data center in Memphis. They’re renting compute from xAI’s existing supercomputer. So why does that matter? Because watching everyone panic about the wrong thing made me realize: most people are mad about xAI for the wrong reasons. The villains here aren’t billionaires from Pretoria. They’re local. They’re the people who took the meeting, signed the NDAs, and kept their jobs. This is a corruption story, and over the next ten essays I’m going to walk you through every name, every dollar, and every meeting Memphis didn’t get to attend.
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