This Tribe Ditched Big Tech to Build Its Own Private Cloud | Tech It Out

Wildfires, Big Tech cloud dependencies, and commercial AI scraping are threatening Indigenous heritage. In northern Ontario, the First Nation community of Wiikwemkoong has chosen to build its own fireproof, on-site micro data centre and deploy autonomous drone patrols across dense forests. Completely air-gapped from the open web, their servers protect sensitive community records and high-definition recordings of fluent Anishinabe language speakers from outside surveillance and unapproved AI…