<p>Big Tech is looking for land to build its AI data centers. HBCUs are looking for new funding after federal cuts.</p><br/><p>And partnerships between them, like one announced by Fisk University, could be a mutually beneficial — or could end up being a form of "digital sharecropping," according to strategist Ashley Northington, <a href="https://www.techpolicy.press/the-ai-economy-is-coming-to-hbcus-are-they-ready-for-the-tradeoffs/" class="default">who wrote about this for Tech Policy Press</a>.</p>