Publications

Silicon Frontier investigates how semiconductor manufacturing, cloud infrastructure, and AI computing are transforming land, water, energy systems, and development priorities across the Pacific Basin. The book develops the concept of techno-statecraft to explain how states, firms, utilities, and local governments assemble infrastructure as industrial strategy. Through comparative research in Taiwan, the United States, China, and Southeast Asia, it connects geopolitical competition over advanced technology to the territorial institutions and socio-ecological systems that make technological expansion possible.

This article examines Oregon’s data-center and semiconductor expansion as a process that reorganizes territorial governance and resource systems. Focusing on firms including Amazon, Google, and Intel, it traces the fiscal incentives, utility arrangements, and land-use instruments used to secure large industrial electricity loads. The analysis shows how important decisions increasingly move into contractual, regulatory, and executive venues, accelerating infrastructure deployment while redistributing environmental and fiscal consequences across municipalities, utilities, and regional ecosystems.