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# US AI boom collides with Indigenous land rights in Philippines
- URL: https://adjacent.media/signals/us-ai-boom-collides-with-indigenous-land-rights-in-philippines/
- Published: 2026-10-14T16:17:54.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-14T16:17:54.000Z
- Description: The US push for AI infrastructure—driven by data center energy demands and rare earth mineral extraction—is directly displacing Indigenous communities in the Philippines, where Marcos Jr. is fast-tracking mining and industrial projects to supply American tech companies.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #signal, theme-culture, regulation/policy, social movements, climate

Source: [Grist](https://grist.org/indigenous/americas-ai-ambitions-threaten-indigenous-lands-in-the-philippines/?ref=adjacent.media)

The US push for AI infrastructure—driven by data center energy demands and rare earth mineral extraction—is directly displacing Indigenous communities in the Philippines, where Marcos Jr. is fast-tracking mining and industrial projects to supply American tech companies. The environmental and territorial burden falls on the Global South while the technology's profits concentrate in Silicon Valley and Washington. The rhetoric of "AI leadership" obscures the destructive infrastructure required to sustain it.