Decolonizing The Machine: From Extractive AI to Abundant Intelligences

Why We Need to Decolonize AI for a Regenerative Future

In the desert outside Phoenix, where aquifers are collapsing and farmers are fighting for water rights, a vast, windowless warehouse hums. Inside, row upon row of servers drink millions of gallons of water every single day to keep from overheating. This is not a steel mill or a coal plant—it is an artificial intelligence data center.

We are rushing toward the edge. Not metaphorically. Not someday. Now.

Capitalism has always been a machine: efficient, extractive, and utterly convinced of its own inevitability. But now, it has given birth to a new kind of offspring—one trained on our memories, fueled by our stories, fed by our attention, and housed in high-security compounds that drink rivers dry and siphon power like gods.

Artificial intelligence, they call it. But make no mistake—it is not neutral. It is the next chapter in a long lineage of empire, and possibly, it is our last.

AI is not saving us. It is not solving climate change. It is not curing cancer. It is accelerating the very sys…