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The Silicon Tax: Why AI Infrastructure is Breaking Local Budgets

17 min read

AI's promise is global, but its cost is hyper-local. Behind the headline-grabbing IPO valuations of firms like Anthropic lie billion-dollar tax disputes, school district funding crises, and a massive hardware bottleneck. We investigate why scaling the next generation of AI is hitting a wall of local