@geekysteven@beige.party Oil Oligarchs are laundering money through data center construction projects, and not through real estate this time. https://cambridge-intelligence.com/blog/from-ai-to-evidence-is-the-russian-laundromat-hiding-in-this-data/ https://futurism.com/science-energy/oracle-data-center-gas https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/treasury-targets-russia-linked-shadow-3056451/ https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/opinions/when-data-centers-are-used-in-fraud-schemes/ https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/ai-infrastructure/ais-15-trillion-buildout-rewriting-rules-data-center-financing Or not as much. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx20199qzj9o https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2026/10/14/us-fines-bank-of-america-1-2bn-for-money-laundering-sanctions-violations https://www.amlintelligence.com/2026/05/latest-deutsche-bank-fined-165000-for-breaching-russia-sanctions/ https://united24media.com/world/german-banks-freeze-russian-clients-accounts-citing-sanctions-and-money-laundering-risks-18742 https://www.thebanker.com/content/56e2b513-f47a-4ba3-b5f9-eaca21d3acb8 https://www.ft.com/content/89c888e4-c70a-468b-9f9b-3c746e4f3156 https://archive.is/https://www.ft.com/content/89c888e4-c70a-468b-9f9b-3c746e4f3156 https://archive.is/27ysp https://johnlothiannews.com/the-worlds-top-economists-are-sounding-the-alarm-on-ai/