The Great Sand Heist
How the AI revolution is running on stolen seabeds and one very vulnerable mountain
The Sahara is the wrong kind of sand. So is the Arabian Peninsula. The Gobi. The Atacama, and every other desert on earth. These places together represent a third of Earth’s land surface, blanketed in the material modern civilization needs most, and almost none of it is usable. Desert sand is round. Billions of years of wind erosion smooth each grain in…
