America’s AI ambitions threaten Indigenous lands in the Philippines

The United States and the Philippines are developing a high-tech manufacturing hub in New Clark City to support global artificial intelligence supply chains. The planned site overlaps with ancestral Aeta territory and threatens to divert massive supplies of local water and energy. For researchers in these fields, the project shows how technological infrastructure drives modern territorial dispossession and resource competition.

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