The Datacenter Does Not Exist: AI & Exocapitalism

A sharp look at AI’s trillion-dollar boom through exocapitalism, where data centers become financial instruments, and the future of software hangs in the balance.

 

​Roberto Alonso Trillo is a Hong Kong–based theorist and artist whose work examines deep learning systems as endosymbiotic reproductive infrastructures, situating technical practice within contemporary political theory.

 

Marek Poliks is a theoretical researcher in deep learning and AI. Marek's work is primarily concerned with the autonomy and self-organizing character of technical infrastructure. He is based in Minneapolis.

 

Dena Yago is an artist and writer, and a founding member of the trend forecasting group K-HOLE (2010-2016). Recent exhibitions include The Intermission, Pireaus (2024), and MoMA, New York (2024). Her writing has appeared in e-flux journal, Flash Art, and frieze magazine. Her forthcoming book of selected writings, That Figures, will be published by After 8 Books this May.