How Cloud Giants Wield Their Power Against Us All w/ Cecilia Rikap

2026-07-30 · 64 min · episode 339 · 12 entities

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As Big Tech’s power continues to grow, it's more important than ever to understand how companies use their control over cloud infrastructure and services to shape more than just the digital world. Cecilia Rikap joins Paris Marx to discuss how these networks of corporate power operate, including how they are systematically used to influence global politics, the economy, and how society views the world. Cecilia Rikap is an Associate Professor at University College London’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose and the author of The Rulers: Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud . The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation . Production is by Kyla Hewson. Support the show on Patreon . Also mentioned in this episode: You can now pre-order Paris’s new book Hyperscale . Cecilia and Paris worked on a white paper offering a roadmap to reclaiming digital sovereignty . Support the show