US empire helped engineer and then capitalize on the collapse of communism (though of course this had to do with a range of ­factors notwithstanding increased authoritarian rule, nationalism, and a shift away from the antifascist ideals that originally contoured the socialist proj­ect). Silicon Valley imperialism in par­tic­ular orchestrated the co-­optation of socialist-­era infrastructure, knowledge, and technofuturity. This then adds a new layer of empire into the mix, one that embraced technoliberal grammars. ­Here, by technoliberalism, I invoke what Atanasoski and Vora describe as a “­political alibi of present-­day racial capitalism that posits humanity as an aspirational figuration in relation to technological transformation, obscuring the uneven racial and gendered relations of ­labor, power, and social relations that underlie the con­temporary conditions of cap­i­tal­ist production.”46 Technoliberalism then unevenly powers the appropriation of space, race, l­abor, and futurity to embolden racial technocapitalism. Not only does it transit Western understandings of race and technology into the East, but it also galvanizes the coloniality undergirding California’s so-­called Silicon Valley. In this way, racial technocapitalism in Romania is a stratified constellation marked by variegated imperial histories, each of which transits dif­fer­ent relational understandings of race, ethnicity, and class.