Klein and Taylor's End Times Fascism Excerpt Details Trump's AI Bet and Silicon Valley Alliance
The September Book Club of CULTURED magazine highlights a passage from End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World, authored by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, which is set to be released by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in September 2026. In June 2024, JD Vance hosted a fundraiser in San Francisco for Donald Trump, which garnered $12 million. Trump criticized renewable energy, asserting, "Fossil fuel is the only way to do it," and a month later, he appointed Vance as his vice-presidential candidate. Trump also annulled Biden's AI regulations, announced a national energy emergency, and initiated Project Stargate, a $500 billion collaboration with Oracle and OpenAI. By December 2025, he prohibited state AI legislation. Global spending on data centers is projected to hit $7 trillion by 2030, with AI firms raising nearly $300 billion in early 2026.
Key facts
- End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in September 2026.
- In June 2024, JD Vance organized a San Francisco fundraiser for Donald Trump at David Sacks's mansion, which netted $12 million and unlocked millions more.
- Trump told the fundraiser crowd that "fossil fuel is the only way to do it" and that "solar and wind just can't cut it."
- On the Impaulsive podcast, Trump described how a deepfake could launch a nuclear attack and said Elon Musk told him there was no way to disprove such a message.
- Trump announced Project Stargate, a $500 billion AI infrastructure initiative with Oracle and OpenAI, on his first full day back in office.
- In December 2025, Trump issued an executive order banning state AI laws and declared AI rules would come only from the Oval Office.
- Global data-center spending could reach $7 trillion by 2030, and AI companies raised almost $300 billion in the first three months of 2026.
- A 2025 Pew poll found only 17 percent of adults believed AI would have a positive impact on the United States over the next two decades.
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