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Especially since the 2010s, under the guise of public-private partnerships, tech companies have effectively turned the datafied state into a reliant client.14 In these so-called partnerships, companies feign a commit- ment to sharing the risks and responsibilities of modernizing the delivery of public services. [...] However, the terms of the partnerships are rarely equal, and these initiatives do no more than facilitate the tech industry’s capture of the state. [...] distributed software” and share the information with third parties.23 Critics 23 Amy Walker, “NHS Gives Amazon Free Use of Health Data un- rightly pointed out the lack of transparency in the process and the uphold- der Alexa Advice Deal,” The Guardian, December 8, 2019, ing of commercial interests over the public interest.24 In response to public nh. [...] Particularly in the United States, it exploits the image of a slow and cumbersome government bureaucracy and claims legitimacy via the widely accepted practice of con- tracting public services out to private companies in the name of efficiency.29 But instead of selling software and data to the public sector, these firms ex- tract value from government services and data, creating new avenues for pr. [...] However, what remains constant is the pressing need to fight against this increasingly concentrated power of the tech industry, demand robust regulatory action from governments, and radically rethink digital in- frastructures, especially within the datafied state, in a way that centers the 35 The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest, “Infrables: The Cloud is not interests of publics.