Political instability has become a burden to both local and international companies — something we’ve seen in the trade war between the US and China. Add to that the always-present risk of emergent armed conflict between nation states and other actors, as well as central government’s tendency to legislate in broad strokes, and you can see why companies might be interested in being able to skip most of those drawbacks of modern society. What if companies were instead able to set up shop in uncontested land, away from prying eyes and legislative blowouts? To create their own circular economies, to legislate within their own facilities, to answer only to logistics and globalization requirements?
This is the aim of Del Complex — or, at least, it seems to be its aim. It’s currently hard to say whether it’s an actual company or a concept that’s just asking for some venture funding — but theirs is a relatively old idea of a “company town” modernized with the right keywords of AI, Nvidia GPU clusters, and sovereignty, and it still turns heads.
