[trhway]

They would also need to protect all this stuff spread globally and into the space. No government will be able to do that - like we've already seen with the datacenters being hit in the Gulf states. Company like AMZN will have all the components for the most modern weapon system - global autonomous drone offense and defense network with the space component (or imagine a 1 GW datacenter in space temporarily rerouting its power into a laser or a microwave effector 80-ies StarWars style :) plus de-facto global intelligence network that each of these companies have, and thus will have and will be able to better protect themselves. Those large BigTechs will unavoidably have to move into defense, for themselves and as-a-service for smaller transnationals.

[iso1631]

There is a constant lack of acceptance of the privatisation of the world in the tech industry. Or of course people realise it but like it.

The randian matra of "Private = good, government = bad" always wins out

You end up with a private company run by the elite, not the people. One Dollar One Vote.