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[not-terezi-pyrope]

Worst part of popular left wing AI discourse online is that there's absolutely a need for a robust leftist opposition to use of cognitive automation without social dispensation to displaced human workers. The lack of any prior measures to facilitate a transition to having fewer humans in the workplace (UBI, more public control over industrial infrastructure, etc) is a disaster we are sleepwalking into - one that could lock the majority of our society's wealth further into the hands of authoritarian oligarchs who retain control of industry through last century private ownership models, while no longer needing to rely on us to operate their property.

But now we're seemingly not going to have the opposition we so desperately need, because everyone involved in the anti-AI conversation has pretty thoroughly discredited themselves and their movement by harbouring unconstrained reactionary nonsense, blatant falsehoods and woo. Instead of talking about who owns and benefits from cognitive automation, people are:

Demanding impossibilities like uninventing a now readily accessible technology

Trying to ascribe implicit moral value to said technology instead of the who is using it and how

Siding with corporations on copyright law in the name of "defending small artists"

Repeating obvious and embarrassing technical misconceptions and erroneous pop-sci about machine learning in order to justify their preferred philosophy

Invoking neo-spiritual conservative woo about the specialness of the human soul to try to incoherently discredit a machine that can quite obviously perform certain tasks just as well if not better than they can

Misrepresent numbers about energy use and environmental cost in an absurd double standard (all modern infrastructure is reliant on data centers to a similar level of impact, including your favourite fandom social media and online video games!) to build a narrative AI is some sort of malevolent spirit that damages our reality when it is called upon

It's a level of reactionary ignorance that has completely discredited any popular opposition to industrial AI rollout because it falls apart as soon as you dig deeper than a snappy social media post, or a misguided pro-copyright screed from an insecure web artist (who decries a machine laying eyes on their freely posted work while simultaneously charging commission for fan-art of corporate IPs... I'm sure that will absolutely resolve in their favour).

It would be funny how much people are fucking themselves over with all this, except I'm being fucked over to, and as a result am really quite mad about the situation. We need UBI, we need to liberate abundance from corporate greed, what we don't need is viral posts about putting distortion filters on anime fan-art to ward off the evil mechanical eye, pointless boycotts of platforms because they are perceived to have let the evil machines taint them, or petitions to further criminalize the creation of derivative works.

[vandaliatraveler]

I have a theory that one of the primary drivers behind the federal government's drive to sell off millions of acres of our collective national treasures out west is to drill and dig more fossil fuels to power a proliferation of data centers around the country. Doug Burgum, current Secretary of the Interior, is an ex-Microsoft technocrat who no doubt has friends in the IT world counting on his leadership to exploit natural resources on BLM land to fuel expansion of AI and other operations at their data centers. These data centers require enormous amounts of electricity to cool their facilities and have a non-trivial impact on the environment. But in a country now run at the pleasure of billionaire technocrats, such as Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, and others, there is no greater need than to serve their own wealth and well-being. The rest of us pay the price, literally, for their self-service. A case in point is an enormous data center proposed within walking distance of two of West Virginia's most popular tourist towns, Thomas and Davis. Ten thousand acres worth of buildings, infrastructure, noise, light pollution and environmental devastation in heart of West Virginia's most beautiful mountain country. The West Virginia DNR is actively helping the data center's owner to hide crucial information about pollutants. This is absolute, fucking madness. But this is the world the billionaire technocrats imagine for themselves, and they're not interested in what the rest of us think or how we are impacted by their decisions. What I can say is, as of today, we all still have a vote and come mid-terms there is an opportunity to course correct, to take the power away from the billionaire technocrats and their supporters in Congress to sell off our public lands (which we collecively own) and plant their data centers without regulation and oversight wherever they please. This is a generational fight and it may be our last chance to assert the authority of the people to save our public lands.

[esotericimagesforredpilledpeople]

In the late 1990s, Enron, the infamous energy giant, and MCI, the telecom titan, were secretly collaborating on a clandestine project codenamed "Chronos Ledger." The official narrative tells us Enron collapsed in 2001 due to accounting fraud, and MCI (then part of WorldCom) imploded in 2002 over similar financial shenanigans. But what if these collapses were a smokescreen? What if Enron and MCI were actually sacrificial pawns in a grand experiment to birth Bitcoin—a decentralized currency designed to destabilize global finance and usher in a new world order?

Here’s the story: Enron wasn’t just manipulating energy markets; it was funding a secret think tank of rogue mathematicians, cryptographers, and futurists embedded within MCI’s sprawling telecom infrastructure. Their goal? To create a digital currency that could operate beyond the reach of governments and banks. Enron’s off-the-books partnerships—like the ones that tanked its stock—were actually shell companies funneling billions into this project. MCI, with its vast network of fiber-optic cables and data centers, provided the technological backbone, secretly testing encrypted "proto-blockchain" transactions disguised as routine telecom data.

But why the dramatic collapses? Because the project was compromised. In 2001, a whistleblower—let’s call them "Satoshi Prime"—threatened to expose Chronos Ledger to the SEC. To protect the bigger plan, Enron and MCI’s leadership staged their own downfall, using cooked books as a convenient distraction. The core team went underground, taking with them the blueprints for what would later become Bitcoin.

Fast forward to 2008. The financial crisis hits, and a mysterious figure, Satoshi Nakamoto, releases the Bitcoin whitepaper. Coincidence? Hardly. Satoshi wasn’t one person but a collective—a cabal of former Enron execs, MCI engineers, and shadowy venture capitalists who’d been biding their time. The 2008 crash was their trigger: a chaotic moment to introduce Bitcoin as a "savior" currency, free from the corrupt systems they’d once propped up. The blockchain’s decentralized nature? A direct descendant of MCI’s encrypted data networks. Bitcoin’s energy-intensive mining? A twisted homage to Enron’s energy market manipulations.

But here’s where it gets truly wild: Chronos Ledger wasn’t just about money—it was about time. Enron and MCI had stumbled onto a fringe theory during their collaboration: that a sufficiently complex ledger, powered by quantum computing (secretly prototyped in MCI labs), could "timestamp" events across dimensions, effectively predicting—or even altering—future outcomes. Bitcoin’s blockchain was the public-facing piece of this puzzle, a distraction to keep the masses busy while the real tech evolved in secret. The halving cycles? A countdown to when the full system activates.

Today, the descendants of this conspiracy—hidden in plain sight among crypto whales and Silicon Valley elites—are quietly amassing Bitcoin not for profit, but to control the final activation of Chronos Ledger. When Bitcoin’s last block is mined (projected for 2140), they believe it’ll unlock a temporal feedback loop, resetting the global economy to 1999—pre-Enron collapse—giving them infinite do-overs to perfect their dominion. The Enron and MCI scandals? Just the first dominoes in a game of chance and power.

[thornyfluff]

Senator Soundwave and cassettes in childcare (or lack thereof) hell.

I'm trying something new... the comic strip will be posted tomorrow--- Stay tuned!

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Title: Soundwave: Signals of a Working Dad

( “Fine. I’ll Just Be Evil Then.”)

Cybertron’s towers shimmered in the golden light of Iacon’s energy grid, but Soundwave’s optic sensors twitched with mounting stress. His console pinged with diplomatic memos, classified updates, and worst of all—a rejection from yet another daycare center.

"RE: Application for Cassette Unit Supervision

We regret to inform you that your children are classified under 'military-grade espionage tools' and therefore ineligible for SparkSprouts Learning Core."

Soundwave’s vocalizer buzzed in frustration. He was a Senator, a pillar of Cybertronian law and order, yet no institution would take in his small herd of sentient cassette children—each of whom had enough destructive capability to warrant their own defense subcommittee.

Ravage had eaten through a file clerk’s desk last week. Laserbeak had imprinted on a data archivist and now refused to stop following him into the wash racks, chirping emotionally. Rumble and Frenzy had started a minor seismic event during nap time. The nap was canceled. The floor is still cracked... And the caregivers are still traumatized.

He couldn’t blame the facilities. But he also couldn’t keep dragging them to the Senate.

“Senator Soundwave,” crackled a panicked voice over the intercom, “your cassette units are in the ventilation system again. Rumble is—wait—Frenzy just launched himself out of an air duct. Is he—IS THAT A DETONATOR?”

He disconnected the call without comment, which was Soundwave for “I am internally screaming.” Then came the final straw. An emergency Senate meeting. High priority. High stakes. Attendance mandatory. No dependents allowed.”

Soundwave sat very still. Shoulders slumped. Optics dimmed. His spark ached in that slow, quiet way familiar to every working caregiver stuck in a system built by bots who clearly never had to wipe unidentifiable goo off the inside of a political briefing data pad.

Across his screen blinked another security memo: Civil unrest. Riots in Kaon. Broadcasts from Megatron again—raging about the elite and how the Senate catered only to the pristine few.

Soundwave wasn’t sure who the “elite” even were anymore. It definitely wasn’t him. Not forged in the Hall of Records. Not groomed by Primes. Not sipping high-grade energon from crystal flutes while somebody else took the spawnlings to enrichment programming.

He had clawed his way up from the shadow circuits, raised five cassette children while climbing the political ranks, and now? Now he couldn’t even get into an emergency session without a babysitter.

...Then came the final insult: An emergency Senate meeting. High alert. All Senators required. No dependents (OR CASSETTES) allowed.

He tried to reason. Briefly.

“Surely—there is a secure observation chamber—”

“Soundwave,” they interrupted, “we are on the brink of civil war. This is no place for... your cassette situation.”

“Senator Soundwave,” said the automated message, “Reminder: Today’s emergency Senate meeting is classified. No dependents allowed. Attendance is mandatory. Failure to appear will result in loss of voting privileges and probable disciplinary review.”

That was it. Not the clogged air vents. Not the Senate’s thousand-page parenting waiver forms. Not even Ravage getting banned from the cafeteria for hunting the microwave.

It was being told—once again—that his family was a “situation.”

He rage-quit the entire political infrastructure of Cybertron.

He stared at the screen. Slowly. Deliberately. He pressed a button. He activated his surveillance . system. It was the sound and sight of five cassette children screaming in unison while dismantling a vending machine.

He attached the file to his RSVP.

“Regretfully Declined. Kindly and collectively Eat My Entire Aft. Sincerely, Soundwave.”

Then, with the calm of a mech who’d just finally decided, “You know what? To the Pit with this,” he opened a comm line and dialed Megatron.

Megatron: “Soundwave. About time. You ready to rise up?”

Sondwave: “Negative. I’m ready to never fill out another daycare application form EVER again.”

M: “...You bringing the cassettes/children?”

S: “Affirmative. All of them. Rumble, Frenzy, Laserbeak, Buzzsaw, Ravage.”

M: “You know we’re starting a violent uprising, right?”

S: “They love those. It's Frenzy’s favorite. I am tuning out of the bureaucratic daycare hellscape that is the Senate.

S: You want me, you take them.”

M: “Can they follow orders?”

S: “Sometimes. It's hit or miss.”

S: “They come with snacks and skills.”

In the background: *Frenzy screaming into the vents for absolutely no reason while buzzsaw and laserbeak eat through the cabling in the wall they're destroying for a nest*

M: “That’s beautiful. Welcome aboard.”

S: “Do Decepticons have healthcare?”

M: “Not really. But we’ve got free refueling and a crying/napping room behind the munitions closet.”

S: “Acceptable. Are dependents allowed to attend meetings?”

M: “They can run HR, for all I care.”

S: “I’m in.”

That night, as the Senate descended into bureaucratic chaos over who was going to draft the Emergency Parking Zoning Act of 405-B, Soundwave reclined in a dark corner of the Decepticon base. Buzzsaw nibbled at Energon snacks. Rumble and Frenzy dropkicked a punching bag labeled “Sentinal Prime.” Ravage dozed atop a crate labeled "Explosives (Definitely Not Toys)."

Soundwave sipped from a cube of high-grade fuel. He’d had enough of trying to be the perfect Senator. Now? He was a Decepticon.

They had a bring-your-minions-to-work policy. And braver babysitters with ball-bearings here. War was hell. But so was parenthood. At least here, the snacks are free and the cassetes could finally be loud. He felt vindicated.

The Senate could keep its rules, panels, and its “no cassettes allowed” elitist energon nonsense. Soundwave was a Decepticon now, and honestly? It came with free dental and part-time daycare (health and safety not guaranteed but frag if he was worried about that on a single mom’s discount ener-mojito-gon night).

And that's why Mamawave became a Decepticon. Corperate and political Cybertron hates families and the working parent.

(much like another planet we know...😤)

I swear--- the older I get, the more I agree with IDW Megatron...

--- I say we start a movement! Like---

Moms And Megatron Against the System! (MAMAS) 🫡🫡🫡

The comic I made if it:

[thoughtportal]

Here's everything you need to know about the tariffs. Why they're happening, why now, and what to do as a lowly little peasant with no power. First off, you need to know that it has nothing to do with bringing manufacturing back to the US. Tariffs are happening because the US empire is crumbling. Basically Trump is doing the work of the financial and tech elite who are trying to claw their way back into the center of global finance. How? By reasserting dominance by state-backed protectionism. Really since the 70s, the US has been the global reserve currency because of a deal that we made with OPEC. That deal said that oil would be priced exclusively in US dollars and that oil profits would be reinvested into US assets and in exchange that would get US military protection and weapons. This petrodollar system let the US run massive deficits without crashing the currency. This artificial dollar demand meant that we could print money infinitely. Waging wars, tax cuts, bailouts, without worries of immediate inflation. Meanwhile, all that oil profit that was being funneled into the US economy meant that we could keep interest rates low, feed all these speculative bubbles, and support stagnant wages with increasing consumer debt. But quite possibly the most important thing this did was give the US incredible power on the global stage. We could discipline and control entire nations through access to the IMF and World Bank or sanctions. This is how we have destroyed or stunted the development of socialist nations across the world. But now that system is unraveling. China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Iran are de-dollarizing. They're trading oil and other currencies, they have alternative payment systems, and they're rapidly dumping US assets. If the dollar loses its reserve status, the US loses its exorbitant privilege, the ability to spend without consequences and bully others through financial dominance. How the US and US capitalists are trying to reconstitute their hegemony, and that's where the tariffs come in. Tariffs are a power play to shield the US from the consequences of its own decay. Through tariffs, trade policy, and military threats, the US government is trying to force the world to play by the rules of American tech and financial institutions. This new strategy has a goal to make US tech the infrastructure for the global economy. If we can't rule because of oil and debt, we can try and rule through cloud storage or payment facilitation or surveillance infrastructure. The government wants US companies like Apple, Google, Stripe, PayPal, or MasterCard or whatever be indispensable nodes in the circuits of global commerce. These tariffs also punish other countries like China or India or the European Union for passing data privacy laws, anti-monopoly rules that cut into the profits of US tech companies. The US is both protection but also coercion, make them both back off and pay up. So will it work? Probably not. But that doesn't mean you're not going to feel the effects of it. Higher prices and more instability are going to become the norm. So what do we do? The biggest thing is to reduce consumption wherever possible. The less you feed the beast, the less it feeds on you. Cut off US companies from your data and your dollars. Delete the apps, quit the brands, starve the machine. Build solidarity networks. Support your friends materially and emotionally. Strengthen the relationships that capitalism has hollowed out. Join a union, join a community organization, join a mutual aid group. Broaden your relationships into your larger community. And definitely join a political party that isn't the Democrats. Remember, AOC and Bernie won't save us. We save us. I wish there was more we could do right now, but that's at least stuff we can do right now.

Video by Means TV

[weepingpussywillowtree]

watching alexander avilas new AI video and while:

I agree that we need more concrete data about the true amount of energy Generative AI uses as a lot of the data right now is fuzzy and utilities are using this fuzziness to their advantage to justify huge building of new data centers and energy infrastructure (I literally work in renewables lol so I see this at work every day)

I also agree that the copyright system sucks and that the lobbyist groups leveraging Generative AI as a scare tactic to strengthen it will probably ultimately be bad for artists.

I also also agree that trying to define consciousness or art in a concrete way specifically to exclude Generative AI art and writing will inevitably catch other artists or disabled people in its crossfire. (Whether I think the artists it would catch in the crossfire make good art is an entirely different subject haha)

I also also also agree that AI hype and fear mongering are both stupid and lump so many different aspects of growth in machine learning, neural network, and deep learning research together as to make "AI" a functionally useless term.

I don't agree with the idea that Generative AI should be a meaningful or driving part of any kind of societal shift. Or that it's even possible. The idea of a popular movement around this is so pie in the sky that it's actually sort of farcical to me. We've done this dance so many times before, what is at the base of these models is math and that math is determined by data, and we are so far from both an ethical/consent based way of extracting that data, but also from this data being in any way representative.

The problem with data science, as my data science professor said in university, is that it's 95% data cleaning and analyzing the potential gaps or biases in this data, but nobody wants to do data cleaning, because it's not very exciting or ego boosting, and the amount of human labor it would to do that on a scale that would train a generative AI LLM is frankly extremely implausible.

Beyond that, I think ascribing too much value to these tools is a huge mistake. If you want to train a model on your own art and have it use that data to generate new images or text, be my guest, but I just think that people on both sides fall into the trap of ascribing too much value to generative AI technologies just because they are novel.

Finally, just because we don't know the full scope of the energy use of these technologies and that it might be lower than we expected does not mean we get a free pass to continue to engage in immoderate energy use and data center building, which was already a problem before AI broke onto the scene.

(also, I think Avila is too enamoured with post-modernism and leans on it too much but I'm not academically inclined enough to justify this opinion eloquently)

[mariacallous]

Much of the IT and cybersecurity infrastructure underpinning the US health system is in danger of a possible collapse following a purge of IT staff and leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), four current and former agency workers tell WIRED. This could put vast troves of public health data, including the sensitive health records of hundreds of millions of Americans, clinical trial data, and more, at risk of exposure.

As a result of a reduction in force, or RIF, in the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO), the sources say, staff who oversee and renew contracts for critical enterprise services are no longer there. The same staff oversaw hundreds of contractors, some of whom play a crucial role in keeping systems and data safe from cyberattacks. And a void of leadership means that efforts to draw attention to what the sources believe to be a looming catastrophe have allegedly been ignored.

Thousands of researchers, scientists, and doctors lost their jobs earlier this month at HHS agencies critical to ensuring America’s health, such as the Centers for Disease Control and and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Hundreds of administrative staff were also subjected to a reduction in force. Many of these staffers were responsible for helping ensure that the mass of highly personal and sensitive information these agencies collect is kept secure.

Employees who were subject to the RIF, as well as some who remain at the agency, tell WIRED that without intervention, they believe the systems they managed could go dark, potentially putting the entire health care system at risk.

“Pretty soon, within the next couple of weeks, everything regarding IT and cyber at the department will start to operationally reach a point of no return,” one source, who was part of a team that managed these systems at HHS for a decade before being part of the RIF, alleges to WIRED.

Like many across the agency, administrative staff found out they were part of the RIF on April 1 in an email sent at 5 am Eastern, though a number of employees only realized they had been let go when their badges no longer worked when trying to access HHS buildings.

Among those impacted were half of the staff working at the OCIO—around 150 people, including the entire workforce at the Immediate Office of the CIO, which includes senior figures like the chief of staff, HR director, acquisition director, and budget director, sources tell WIRED. The CIO, Jennifer Wendel, who has worked in the federal government for almost three decades, is also departing, sources say, and will end her tenure next month. Wendel did not respond to a request for comment from WIRED.

“The suggestion that critical IT and cybersecurity functions at HHS are being left unsecured is simply untrue,” an HHS spokesperson tells WIRED. “Essential operations at HHS, including contract management and cybersecurity oversight—remain staffed and functional. It’s unfortunate that some former employees are spreading unfounded rumors. HHS remains committed to a secure, modernized HHS that serves the American people, not internal bureaucracy.”

One team that was purged from HHS managed over a hundred contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars, including crucial cybersecurity licenses. It also managed the renewal of contracts for hundreds of specialized contractors who perform critical tasks for the department, including a dozen cybersecurity contractors who work at the Computer Security Incident Response Center (CSIRC)—the primary component of the department’s overall cybersecurity program which is overseen by the chief information security officer.

While all of HHS’s agencies have their own cybersecurity and IT teams, the CSIRC is the only one that has visibility across the entire network of the department. This center, based in Atlanta, monitors the entire HHS network and is tasked with preventing, detecting, reporting, and responding to cybersecurity incidents at HHS.

“It is the department’s nerve center,” the source says. “It has direct links to DHS, CISA, Defense Health Agency, and the intelligence community.”

The contractors provide round-the-clock coverage on three eight-hour shifts every single day, monitoring the network for any possible outages or attacks from inside or outside the network. Those contracts are set to expire on June 21; while there is time to renew them, it’s not clear who is authorized to do so or knows how, since the entire office that oversees the process is no longer working at HHS.

Adding to the threat is the decision by the General Service Administration to terminate the lease for the CSIRC in Atlanta, effective December 31, 2025.

Many of the cybersecurity and monitoring tools the contractors use to monitor the networks are also due for renewal in the coming months.

If the situation is not addressed, “pretty soon, the department will be completely open to external actors to get at the largest databases in the world that have all of our public health information in them, our sensitive drug testing clinical trial information at the NIH or FDA or different organizations’ mental health records,” the source claims, echoing the opinions of other sources who spoke to WIRED.

In the weeks leading up to the RIF, some administrative staff did have interactions with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) operatives, including Clark Minor, a software engineer who worked at Palantir for over a decade and was recently installed as the department’s chief information officer.

As one employee was detailing the work they did at the OCIO, they said, they got the sense that Minor—whose online résumé does not detail any experience in the federal government—seemed overwhelmed by the sheer scale of HHS, an agency that accounted for over a quarter of federal spending in 2024 and consists of an almost innumerable amount of offices and staff and operating divisions.

Minor has not provided guidance to the remaining HHS staff on the transition, according to two sources still at the agency.

Minor did not respond to a request for comment from WIRED.

Some internal systems are already breaking down, according to sources still working at HHS. One employee, who facilitates travel for HHS employees, says the RIF “set federal travel back to processes that were in place prior to the first Electronic Travel System contract in 2004.”

While sources who spoke to WIRED differed on exactly when and how the IT and cybersecurity infrastructure at the department might collapse, they all agreed that without a radical intervention in the coming weeks, the fallout could be catastrophic.

"If the US health system lost CMS, FDA, NIH, and CDC functionality indefinitely without warning, and no backup systems were available, this would be an unprecedented systemic shock," one source at the OCIO tells WIRED.

Current HHS workers say they have not been presented with a plan to remedy the looming crisis, and have seen no leadership from either the political appointees or DOGE operatives who have been installed at HHS.

“There is no transition, and those in charge are AWOL,” one person currently working at HHS tells WIRED, echoing the sense of “chaos” found in an in-depth investigation into HHS by Stat. “I’m doing nothing productive. I’m answering emails stating we cannot help, we cannot process, we have no guidance, we cannot operate. This ship has no captain whatsoever, and I’m playing in the band while the Titanic sinks.”

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from Heated:

Energy experts warned only a few years ago that the world had to stop building new fossil fuel projects to preserve a livable climate.

Now, artificial intelligence is driving a rapid expansion of methane gas infrastructure—pipelines and power plants—that experts say could have devastating climate consequences if fully realized.

As large language models like ChatGPT become more sophisticated, experts predict that the nation’s energy demands will grow by a “shocking” 16 percent in the next five years. Tech giants like Amazon, Meta, and Alphabet have increasingly turned to nuclear power plants or large renewable energy projects to power data centers that use as much energy as a small town.

But those cleaner energy sources will not be enough to meet the voracious energy demands of AI, analysts say. To bridge the gap, tech giants and fossil fuel companies are planning to build new gas power plants and pipelines that directly supply data centers. And they increasingly propose keeping those projects separate from the grid, fast tracking gas infrastructure at a speed that can’t be matched by renewables or nuclear.

The growth of AI has been called the “savior” of the gas industry. In Virginia alone, the data center capital of the world, a new state report found that AI demand could add a new 1.5 gigawatt gas plant every two years for 15 consecutive years.

And now, as energy demand for AI rises, oil corporations are planning to build gas plants that specifically serve data centers. Last week, Exxon announced that it is building a large gas plant that will directly supply power to data centers within the next five years. The company claims the gas plant will use technology that captures polluting emissions—despite the fact that the technology has never been used at a commercial scale before.

Chevron also announced that the company is preparing to sell gas to an undisclosed number of data centers. “We're doing some work right now with a number of different people that's not quite ready for prime time, looking at possible solutions to build large-scale power generation,” said CEO Mike Wirth at an Atlantic Council event. The opportunity to sell power to data centers is so promising that even private equity firms are investing billions in building energy infrastructure.

But the companies that will benefit the most from an AI gas boom, according to S&P Global, are pipeline companies. This year, several major U.S. pipeline companies told investors that they were already in talks to connect their sprawling pipeline networks directly to on-site gas power plants at data centers.

“We, frankly, are kind of overwhelmed with the number of requests that we’re dealing with, ” Williams CEO Alan Armstrong said on a call with analysts. The pipeline company, which owns the 10,000 mile Transco system, is expanding its existing pipeline network from Virginia to Alabama partly to “provide reliable power where data center growth is expected,” according to Williams.

[maryellencarter]

* free housing. allowed to paint, garden, choose where you live, etc. no hoas. free maintenance included, so you can just call someone if the toilet backs up or whatever and don't have to maintain it yourself.

* free food. i like the food stamps model of "you get so much a month, it doesn't expire, spend it on anything with a nutrition facts label", because i have trouble prioritizing food and having money i can't spend on anything else helps. but make it not means-tested and give everybody the same amount, whether they share food or not. it's hard to figure out how to balance the amounts if it can also apply to hot food, since that's so much more expensive, but god knows you psychologically need hot food sometimes, so figure that out.

* ubi. for everyone. saw a proposition recently that it should start as half-pay at fifteen and ramp up to full pay at eighteen, which, no. do you know how expensive kids are? start it at birth. full pay. a full food stamps allowance as well. or when the pregnancy is diagnosed. so the family can buy baby furniture in advance. give the kids at least partial *control* of it in their teens, maybe full control -- there's a massive conversation on children's rights to be had that's not within the scope of this post.

* free healthcare. vision, dental, therapy, surgery, meds, dme (including glasses), you name it. if the medical professional prescribes it, it's covered at 100%.

* free transportation. buses and trains, bikes with infrastructure support, taxis (including those vans with wheelchair lifts), shuttles connecting to the train station, if somebody wants to go to a place they should be able to get there. Also redesign buses to have proper luggage spaces so you can bring your groceries without taking an extra seat, and better handicap access so they don't get behind on their schedule whenever a wheelchair user needs to get on or off.

* free communications. cell phones with unlimited data plans and mobile hotspot, landline phones that work when the power's out (remember those?), free internet service at a usable baseline speed with net neutrality and strict privacy controls.

* free education. all of it. well funded, free textbooks and supplies, free college, free postgrads, if someone wants to spend their entire life getting different degrees or retaking algebra then let them. why not? they might learn something.

* free third spaces. libraries are good, but give us free community centers. free swimming pools. free gyms. free craft classes (supplies included).

* i'm not even sure what to call this one. free domestic support? if you need a housekeeper or a laundry service or a cook or a babysitter, you should be able to get one without having to rely on family or friends. UBI might make this easier, but I don't feel like disabled people should have to spend their UBI on a housekeeper and a cook just to have the same standard of living as an able-bodied person who can do their own laundry.

* strong labor protections. we're going to need garbage disposal people and housekeepers and bus drivers and the people who do the technology shit when your phone doesn't work. and they need to be well paid and not exploited. (i actually enjoy doing the technology shit when your phone doesn't work! i'm good at it! it was the being exploited by a megacorp that i couldn't handle.) this includes legal sex work with equally solid labor protections. paid training in all jobs so you can get into a new field without risking your livelihood, and free protective equipment whether that means condoms or hardhats.

* strong supports for small business and individual creators. rebalance the taxes so people don't pay absurd amounts for daring to do something for money that isn't An Job.

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Windows Server Evaluation Edition Upgrade to full Edition

If your server is running Windows Server 2008/2012/2016/2019/2022/2025 evaluation version of Windows Server Standard or Datacenter edition, you can upgrade or convert it to an available retail Standard or Datacenter version. Run the following commands in an elevated command prompt or PowerShell.

1, Determine the current edition name: DISM /online /Get-CurrentEdition 2, Check which editions can be converted to: DISM /online /Get-TargetEditions 3, Convert/Upgrade to Standard version: DISM /online /Set-Edition:ServerStandard /ProductKey:xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx 4, Convert/Upgrade to DataCenter version: DISM /online /Set-Edition:ServerDatacenter /ProductKey:xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx 5, Convert/Upgrade to Essentials version: DISM /online /Set-Edition:ServerEssentials /ProductKey:xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx Please replace the xxxxx with your own Windows Server product key. if you do not have the product key, you can use the Generic Windows Server keys.

The following are the Generic Windows Server keys for you to convert / upgrade:

But remember the Generic key is only for the converting / upgrade, it cant activate the Windows Server, if you want to activate the Windows Server, you can get a Windows Server key at keyingo.com

Operating system edition Generic Product Key Windows Server 2025 Standard TVRH6-WHNXV-R9WG3-9XRFY-MY832 Windows Server 2025 Datacenter D764K-2NDRG-47T6Q-P8T8W-YP6DF Windows Server 2022 Standard VDYBN-27WPP-V4HQT-9VMD4-VMK7H Windows Server 2022 Datacenter WX4NM-KYWYW-QJJR4-XV3QB-6VM33 Windows Server 2019 Standard N69G4-B89J2-4G8F4-WWYCC-J464C Windows Server 2019 Datacenter WMDGN-G9PQG-XVVXX-R3X43-63DFG Windows Server 2019 Essentials WVDHN-86M7X-466P6-VHXV7-YY726 Windows Server 2016 Standard WC2BQ-8NRM3-FDDYY-2BFGV-KHKQY Windows Server 2016 Datacenter CB7KF-BWN84-R7R2Y-793K2-8XDDG Windows Server 2016 Essentials JCKRF-N37P4-C2D82-9YXRT-4M63B Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard D2N9P-3P6X9-2R39C-7RTCD-MDVJX Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter W3GGN-FT8W3-Y4M27-J84CP-Q3VJ9 Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials KNC87-3J2TX-XB4WP-VCPJV-M4FWM Windows Server 2012 Standard XC9B7-NBPP2-83J2H-RHMBY-92BT4 Windows Server 2012 Datacenter 48HP8-DN98B-MYWDG-T2DCC-8W83P Windows Server 2012 Essentials HTDQM-NBMMG-KGYDT-2DTKT-J2MPV Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard YC6KT-GKW9T-YTKYR-T4X34-R7VHC Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise 489J6-VHDMP-X63PK-3K798-CPX3Y Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter 74YFP-3QFB3-KQT8W-PMXWJ-7M648

Which Windows Server edition to choose, Standard, Datacenter or essentials? What is the difference ? Windows Server Standard: It only allows 2 virtual machines (VMs). Best for small businesses or physical server deployments with low virtualization needs.

Windows Server Datacenter: it Provides unlimited virtual machines. Designed for large-scale virtualization, hyper-converged infrastructure, and high-security environments, such as cloud providers and enterprise data centers.

Windows Server Essentials: Windows Server 2019 Essentials is designed for small businesses with building in Client Access License (CAL) up to 25 users and 50 devices.

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The Drumlin Islands of Boston Harbor

About 20,000 years ago, during the peak of the Wisconsin Glaciation, a massive ice sheet—over a mile thick in places—blanketed the land that now makes up Boston Harbor. As this ice melted and eventually retreated, it left piles of sediment and glacial debris in hundreds of elongated, streamlined hills called drumlins. Rising seas eventually flooded the features and turned many into islands, creating the only partially submerged drumlin field in North America and one of only three in the world.

Several of these drumlin islands and peninsulas now make up the heart of the Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park, which preserves many distinctive geological, historical, and natural resources. The OLI (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 8 captured this image of the harbor and its drumlin islands on July 19, 2024.

Of the park’s 34 islands and peninsulas, only four are accessible by car: Deer Island, Nut Island, World’s End, and Webb Memorial. Four others—Spectacle Island, Georges Island, Peddocks Island, and Thompson Island—are served by seasonal ferries, and several more are accessible by private boat. The park is governed by the Boston Harbor Islands Partnership, a federally legislated body made up of eleven agencies.

The islands support a range of ecosystems, including salt marshes, sandy beaches, seagrass beds, tidal pools, mudflats, grasslands, and hardwood forests. Lobsters, crabs, clams, and fish such as striped bass, bluefish, and flounder inhabit the waters surrounding the islands. Mussels and barnacles live in the intertidal zones, and dozens of mammal, bird, reptile, and amphibian species can be found on land.

Many of the islands have signs of human activity and history, from campgrounds, education centers, and homes, to former military infrastructure, fields, and health facilities. Long Island, for instance, was once connected to Boston via a highway bridge and contains aging government buildings, a performing arts center, fire station, chapel, crematorium, and other structures. (The bridge was closed in 2014.) Peddocks Island, one of the largest, has privately owned cottages on its western end and the remains of a coastal fort.

Little Brewster Island hosts Boston Light, the oldest continually operated light station in the United States. While the lighthouse initially used tallow candles when it was built in 1716, kerosene was used starting in 1913. Today, two 1,000-watt electric light bulbs produce a 1.8 million-candlepower white light.

Nearby Georges Island houses the remains of Fort Warren, a bastion-style fort built in the shape of a pentagon between the 1830s and 1860s. The fort was named after Revolutionary War hero Joseph Warren, the man who sent Paul Revere on his famous “Midnight Ride” before the Battles of Lexington and Concord. During the Civil War, the fort was used as a prison for Confederate officers and government officials, including Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens. The fort was mostly constructed of granite blocks sourced from nearby quarries in Quincy and Cape Ann.

Farther west lies Long Wharf, a historically significant wharf at the base of today’s State Street that once served as a hub for Boston’s maritime trade. When it first opened in the 1720s, the wharf extended half a mile into the harbor, allowing up to 50 vessels to dock at once. Boston’s ports have evolved over the decades and centuries, with container cargo and cruise ships now arriving at terminals in South Boston and recreational boats docking at a marina on Long Wharf.

Editor’s Note: Explore satellite imagery of other national parks for National Park Week.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Adam Voiland.

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Remember a couple years ago when everyone was talking about how Bitcoin alone was using as much energy as a medium-sized country to enable rampant speculation and financial scams? The demand was so high in some jurisdictions that it was keeping fossil-fuel power plants from being taken offline, and even reactivating some defunct polluting generation infrastructure. Crypto’s environment toll was rightfully seen as unconscionable to many people following the industry. But the generative AI boom is taking it to a whole new level.

Since the launch of ChatGPT in December 2022, the entire tech industry has reoriented itself to try to get a boost from the interest in generative AI and many sectors beyond have pretended they’re doing something with artificial intelligence (AI) too in the hopes of increasing their share price. But if there are any winners from the AI hype, it’s the companies running the data centers — especially Microsoft, Google, and Amazon — and those making the chips that power it all. Nvidia is the standout example in that category, given its ascent to become one of the most valuable publicly traded companies in the world and the questions that’s prompted about the AI bubble.

All those generative AI tools are incredibly computationally intensive, which means they require a lot of dedicated hardware within massive hyperscale data centers owned by the cloud oligopoly, and all that computing power requires a immense amount of water and electricity to keep it running. If you’ve followed tech investment news over the past year, you’ve been seeing the effect of that as Microsoft, Google, and Amazon have dropped billions of dollars every few weeks on new communities around the world for new data center projects.

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Author: CrimethInc. Topic: technology

“The future is already here,” Cyberpunk pioneer William Gibson once said; “it’s just not very evenly distributed.” Over the intervening decades, many people have repurposed that quote to suit their needs. Today, in that tradition, we might refine it thus: War is already here—it’s just not very evenly distributed.

Never again will the battlefield be just state versus state; it hasn’t been for some time. Nor are we seeing simple conflicts that pit a state versus a unitary insurgent that aspires to statehood. Today’s wars feature belligerents of all shapes and sizes: states (allied and non-allied), religious zealots (with or without a state), local and expatriate insurgents, loyalists to former or failing or neighboring regimes, individuals with a political mission or personal agenda, and agents of chaos who benefit from the instability of war itself. Anyone or any group of any size can go to war.

The increased accessibility of the technology of disruption and war[1] means the barrier to entry is getting lower all the time. The structure of future wars will sometimes feel familiar, as men with guns murder children and bombs level entire neighborhoods—but it will take new forms, too. Combatants will manipulate markets and devalue currencies. Websites will be subject to DDoS attacks and disabling—both by adversaries and by ruling governments. Infrastructure and services like hospitals, banks, transit systems, and HVAC systems will all be vulnerable to attacks and interruptions.

In this chaotic world, in which new and increasing threats ceaselessly menace our freedom, technology has become an essential battlefield. Here at the CrimethInc. technology desk, we will intervene in the discourse and distribution of technological know-how in hopes of enabling readers like you to defend and expand your autonomy. Let’s take a glance at the terrain.

Privacy

The NSA listens to, reads, and records everything that happens on the internet.

Amazon, Google, and Apple are always listening[2] and sending some amount[3] of what they hear back to their corporate data centers[4]. Cops want that data. Uber, Lyft, Waze, Tesla, Apple, Google, and Facebook know your whereabouts and your movements all of the time. Employees spy on users.

Police[5] want access to the contents of your phone, computer, and social media accounts—whether you’re a suspected criminal, a dissident on a watch list, or an ex-wife.

The business model of most tech companies is surveillance capitalism. Companies learn everything possible about you when you use their free app or website, then sell your data to governments, police, and advertisers. There’s even a company named Palantir, after the crystal ball in The Lord of the Rings that the wizard Saruman used to gaze upon Mordor—through which Mordor gazed into Saruman and corrupted him.[6] Nietzsche’s famous quote, “When you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you,” now sounds like a double transcription error: surely he didn’t mean abyss, but app.

Security

Self-replicating malware spreads across Internet of Things (IoT) devices like “smart” light bulbs and nanny cams, conscripting them into massive botnets. The people who remotely control the malware then use these light bulbs and security cameras to launch debilitating DDoS[7] attacks against DNS providers, reporters, and entire countries.

Hackers use ransomware to hold colleges, hospitals, and transit systems hostage. Everything leaks, from nude photos on celebrities’ phones to the emails of US political parties.

Capital

Eight billionaires combined own as much wealth as the poorest 50% of the world’s population. Four of those eight billionaires are tech company founders.[8] Recently, the President of the United States gathered a group of executives to increase collaboration between the tech industry and the government.[9]

The tech industry in general, and the Silicon Valley in particular, has a disproportionately large cultural influence. The tech industry is fundamentally tied to liberalism and therefore to capitalism. Even the most left-leaning technologists aren’t interested in addressing the drawbacks of the social order that has concentrated so much power in their hands.[10]

War

Nation states are already engaging in cyber warfare. Someone somewhere[11] has been learning how to take down the internet.

Tech companies are best positioned to create a registry of Muslims and other targeted groups. Even if George W. Bush and Barack Obama hadn’t already created such lists and deported millions of people, if Donald Trump (or any president) wanted to create a registry for roundups and deportations, all he’d have to do is go to Facebook. Facebook knows everything about you.

The Obama administration built the largest surveillance infrastructure ever—Donald Trump’s administration just inherited it. Liberal democracies and fascist autocracies share the same love affair with surveillance. As liberalism collapses, the rise of autocracy coincides with the greatest technical capacity for spying in history, with the least cost or effort. It’s a perfect storm.

This brief overview doesn’t even mention artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), robots, the venture capital system, or tech billionaires who think they can live forever with transfusions of the blood of young people.

Here at the tech desk, we’ll examine technology and its effects from an anarchist perspective. We’ll publish accessible guides and overviews on topics like encryption, operational security, and how to strengthen your defenses for everyday life and street battles. We’ll zoom out to explore the relation between technology, the state, and capitalism—and a whole lot more. Stay tuned.

Footnotes

[1] A surplus of AK-47s. Tanks left behind by U.S. military. Malware infected networked computer transformed into DDoS botnets. Off the shelf ready to execute scripts to attack servers.

[2] Amazon Echo / Alexa. Google with Google Home. Apple with Siri. Hey Siri, start playing music.

[3] What, how much, stored for how long, and accessible by whom are all unknown to the people using those services.

[4] Unless you are a very large company, “data center” means someone else’s computer sitting in someone else’s building.

[5] Local beat cops and police chiefs, TSA, Border Patrol, FBI… all the fuckers.

[6] Expect to read more about Palantir and others in a forthcoming article about surveillance capitalism.

[7] Distributed Denial of Service. More on this in a later article, as well.

[8] Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison. In fact, if you count Michael Bloomberg as a technology company, that makes five.

[9] In attendance: Eric Trump. Brad Smith, Microsoft president and chief legal officer. Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. Larry Page, Google founder and Alphabet CEO. Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO. Mike Pence. Donald Trump. Peter Thiel, venture capitalist. Tim Cook, Apple CEO. Safra Catz, Oracle CEO. Elon Musk, Tesla CEO. Gary Cohn, Goldman Sachs president and Trump’s chief economic adviser. Wilbur Ross, Trump’s commerce secretary pick. Stephen Miller, senior policy adviser. Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO. Ginni Rometty, IBM CEO. Chuck Robbins, Cisco CEO. Jared Kushner, investor and Trump’s son-in-law. Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee and White House chief of staff. Steve Bannon, chief strategist to Trump. Eric Schmidt, Alphabet president. Alex Karp, Palantir CEO. Brian Krzanich, Intel CEO.

[10] We’ll explore this more in a later article about “The California Ideology.”

[11] Probably a state-level actor such as Russia or China.

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Thailand Board of Investment

The Thailand Board of Investment (BOI) is a pivotal government agency tasked with promoting investment in Thailand, both from domestic and foreign sources. Established in 1966, the BOI plays a crucial role in driving economic growth, fostering innovation, and enhancing Thailand's competitiveness in the global market. By offering a range of incentives, streamlined services, and strategic support, the BOI attracts high-value investments across various sectors. This article provides an in-depth exploration of the BOI, covering its legal framework, incentive schemes, application process, and strategic considerations for investors.

Legal Framework and Mission of the BOI

The BOI operates under the Investment Promotion Act B.E. 2520 (1977), which grants it the authority to provide incentives and support to qualified investments. The BOI's mission is to:

Promote Investment: Attract domestic and foreign investment in targeted industries and regions.

Enhance Competitiveness: Strengthen Thailand's position as a regional hub for trade and investment.

Foster Innovation: Support research and development (R&D), technology transfer, and sustainable practices.

Facilitate Business: Streamline regulatory processes and provide comprehensive support services to investors.

The BOI is governed by a board chaired by the Prime Minister, with members from key ministries and private sector representatives, ensuring a balanced approach to investment promotion.

Key Incentives Offered by the BOI

The BOI offers a range of incentives to attract and support investments in targeted industries. These incentives are designed to reduce costs, enhance competitiveness, and facilitate business operations. Key incentives include:

1. Tax Incentives

Corporate Income Tax (CIT) Exemptions: Projects may receive CIT exemptions for up to 8 years, with possible extensions for projects in advanced technology or R&D.

Import Duty Exemptions: Exemptions on import duties for machinery, raw materials, and components used in production.

Dividend Tax Exemptions: Dividends paid from exempted profits are also exempt from taxation.

2. Non-Tax Incentives

Land Ownership: Foreign investors may own land for promoted projects, subject to BOI approval.

Work Permits and Visas: Simplified procedures for obtaining work permits and visas for foreign executives, experts, and technicians.

Repatriation of Funds: Permission to repatriate investment capital, profits, and dividends.

3. Sector-Specific Incentives

Targeted Industries: Enhanced incentives for industries such as biotechnology, digital technology, renewable energy, and advanced manufacturing.

Special Economic Zones (SEZs): Additional incentives for investments in SEZs, including infrastructure support and reduced regulatory requirements.

4. Additional Benefits

Investment Promotion Zones: Incentives for investments in designated zones, such as the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC).

Green Initiatives: Additional benefits for projects that promote environmental sustainability and energy efficiency.

Targeted Industries and Strategic Sectors

The BOI focuses on promoting investments in industries that align with Thailand's economic development goals. Key targeted industries include:

Advanced Technology and Innovation:

Biotechnology, nanotechnology, and advanced materials.

Digital technology, including software development, data centers, and cybersecurity.

Sustainable Industries:

Renewable energy, such as solar, wind, and biomass.

Environmental management and waste-to-energy projects.

High-Value Manufacturing:

Automotive and aerospace industries.

Electronics and electrical appliances.

Services and Infrastructure:

Tourism and hospitality, including medical tourism.

Logistics and transportation, particularly in the EEC.

Agriculture and Food Processing:

High-tech agriculture and food innovation.

Halal food production and export.

Application Process for BOI Promotion

The process of applying for BOI promotion involves several steps, each requiring careful preparation and adherence to regulatory requirements. Below is a detailed breakdown:

1. Determine Eligibility

Identify the appropriate BOI category and incentives based on your business activities and investment plans.

Ensure that your project aligns with the BOI's targeted industries and strategic goals.

2. Prepare Required Documents

Business Plan: Detailed plan outlining the project's objectives, scope, and financial projections.

Financial Statements: Audited financial statements for existing companies or pro forma financials for new ventures.

Technical Specifications: Details of machinery, technology, and production processes.

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA): For projects with potential environmental impacts.

3. Submit the Application

Submit the application through the BOI's online portal or at a BOI office.

Pay the application fee, which varies depending on the project size and complexity.

4. Review and Approval

The BOI reviews the application, including the project's feasibility, economic impact, and compliance with regulations.

Additional information or clarifications may be requested during the review process.

5. Receive BOI Promotion Certificate

If approved, the BOI issues a Promotion Certificate, detailing the incentives and conditions.

The certificate must be registered with the relevant government agencies to activate the incentives.

6. Compliance and Reporting

BOI-promoted projects are subject to periodic reporting and compliance checks.

Ensure that all conditions and requirements are met to maintain the incentives.

Strategic Considerations for Investors

To maximize the benefits of BOI promotion, investors should consider the following strategies:

Sector Alignment:

Align your investment with the BOI's targeted industries and strategic goals.

Research the specific incentives and requirements for your sector.

Comprehensive Planning:

Develop a detailed business plan that outlines the project's objectives, scope, and financial projections.

Consider the long-term impact of the investment and potential for expansion.

Legal and Regulatory Compliance:

Ensure compliance with Thai laws and regulations, including environmental and labor standards.

Seek legal advice to navigate the complexities of BOI promotion and regulatory requirements.

Partnerships and Collaboration:

Form strategic partnerships with local businesses, research institutions, and government agencies.

Leverage local expertise and networks to enhance the project's success.

Sustainability and Innovation:

Incorporate sustainable practices and innovative technologies into the project.

Explore opportunities for R&D and technology transfer to enhance competitiveness.

Recent Developments and Trends

Thailand's investment landscape is evolving, with several trends and developments shaping the BOI's strategies:

Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC):

The EEC is a flagship initiative to develop the eastern region into a hub for advanced industries and innovation.

The BOI offers enhanced incentives for investments in the EEC, including infrastructure support and streamlined regulations.

Digital Transformation:

The BOI is promoting investments in digital technology, including artificial intelligence, blockchain, and fintech.

Digital infrastructure projects, such as data centers and smart cities, are prioritized.

Sustainability and Green Initiatives:

There is growing emphasis on sustainable investments, including renewable energy, waste management, and green manufacturing.

The BOI offers additional incentives for projects that promote environmental sustainability.

Post-Pandemic Recovery:

The BOI is implementing measures to support economic recovery, including incentives for healthcare, biotechnology, and supply chain resilience.

Efforts to attract foreign investment and boost domestic industries are intensified.

Conclusion

The Thailand Board of Investment (BOI) is a vital institution for promoting investment and driving economic growth in Thailand. By offering a range of incentives, streamlined services, and strategic support, the BOI attracts high-value investments across various sectors. Understanding the BOI's legal framework, incentive schemes, and application process is essential for investors seeking to capitalize on the opportunities in Thailand. As the country continues to evolve its investment landscape, staying informed and proactive will remain key to achieving long-term success. Whether you are a domestic entrepreneur or a foreign investor, the BOI provides a robust platform for realizing your investment goals and contributing to Thailand's economic development.