Silicon Valley oligarchs like Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen have much to gain from Donald Trump’s seizure of Greenland, both as a source of rare earth minerals to feed the AI boom and as a site for a libertarian “crypto state.”

Silicon Valley oligarchs like Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen have much to gain from Donald Trump’s seizure of Greenland, both as a source of rare earth minerals to feed the AI boom and as a site for a libertarian “crypto state.”

  • cub Gucci@lemmy.today
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    9 days ago

    They couldn’t start extracting minerals or gas or oil in industrial amounts in their remaining lifetime.

    They sure do justify taking the island to themselves and each other using rare minerals argument though.

    I just wonder if there is something else to it…