I went looking for an honest man in Silicon Valley, but I only found salesmen and their eager apprentices. Prime Minister Mitsotakis is currently touring the temples of Nvidia and Tesla, desperate to prove that Greece is no longer the 'black sheep' of Europe. He speaks of a 'Greece 2030' vision, begging for digital infrastructure while the tech giants build moats so wide that only the ultra-rich can cross them.
Look at Alibaba's 20 GW data center roadmap or SoftBank’s $11 billion bond issuance for OpenAI. This is not progress; it is an infrastructure arms race where 'Machine Intelligence' is the new electrification, and we are just the customers paying the bill. Meanwhile, the GAO reveals a $6 trillion 'invisible' economy of unpaid household labor that keeps society functioning. This labor is absent from the GDP figures our leaders use to brag about 'growth.' We are told the Greek economy is resilient, yet the perceived growth is artificially boosted by families spending their income to replace the very services they are too burnt out to perform themselves.
Is this the stability we are promised? In the UK, the Burnham government is choking on a £330 million Palantir contract, trapped between pragmatism and the erosion of patient trust. In California, they’ve finally realized that these data centers are vampires, forcing them to fund their own power and water upgrades. Yet, here we are, inviting the vampires in for dinner. Why is the 'Greece 2030' plan focused on attracting the giants of surveillance and automation instead of valuing the $6 trillion of human labor that actually sustains us?
Will we remain the 'stable hub' for tech oligarchs, or will we finally demand an economy that counts the people who actually do the work?
