Bei „Costs of War“, einem Projekt der Brown University, ist ein Papier erschienen, das die zunehmende Bedeutung von Silicon Valley im amerikanischen Militärisch-industriellen-Komplex hervorhebt: „Over the past decade, the center of America’s military-industrial complex has been slowly shifting from the Capital Beltway to Silicon Valley. […]A conservative estimate indicates that U.S. military and intelligence agencies awarded $28 billion to Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet (Google’s parent company) between 2018 and 2022. […] In the meantime, major VC firms such as Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz — and dozens of smaller ones — have ramped up investments in defense tech startups. More than $100 billion in venture capital funding went to defense tech startups between 2021 and 2023.” (jw)
