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Who Pays for Progress?

The Uneven Cost of Al and the Communities Left Holding the Bill

Autor: Athena Huxley
Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Brožovaná
Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele
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Progress is rarely free. It only looks that way when the people receiving the benefits are not the s...

Informace o knize

Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Brožovaná
Vydáno
2026
Stránek
336
EAN
9798187945245
Enbook ID
53269162
Hmotnost
408
Rozměry
152 x 229 x 21

Kompletní popis

Progress is rarely free. It only looks that way when the people receiving the benefits are not the same people paying the bill.

Artificial intelligence is usually discussed as software: automation, productivity, disruption, innovation, and the future. But before AI changes the world, it needs somewhere to run.

The cloud has an address.

In Who Pays for Progress?, Athena Huxley examines the local cost of AI infrastructure-especially data centers-and the communities asked to absorb the tradeoffs behind someone else's seamless digital experience.

With dry wit and sharp systems thinking, Huxley looks at the promises behind "economic development" and asks the questions too often skipped before the ribbon cutting:

Who gets the jobs?
Who pays for utility expansion?
Who absorbs housing pressure?
Who benefits from tax incentives?
Who measures whether promises were kept?
And who is left holding the bill when progress arrives without receipts?

This is not an anti-technology book. It is not an anti-growth book.

It is an anti-hand-waving book.

For readers skeptical of AI hype but allergic to doom manifestos, Who Pays for Progress? offers a practical, readable look at infrastructure, incentives, housing, public services, community benefits, and accountability.

Because if progress is as beneficial as advertised, it should survive a few follow-up questions.